{"id":243495,"date":"2025-11-04T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243495\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:16:23","slug":"xania-monet-becomes-first-ai-artist-to-chart-on-us-billboard-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243495\/","title":{"rendered":"Xania Monet becomes first AI artist to chart on US Billboard rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cXania Monet\u201d has become the first AI<\/a> artist to chart on US Billboard rankings.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Keir Starmer tells us about \u201cprotecting creativity\u201d in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n

AI creation Monet has now become the first known AI artist to earn enough radio airplay to debut on a radio chart, per Billboard<\/a>. In an article shared late last month, they pointed to a trend that so far has seen\u00a0at least one AI artist debut in each of the past four chart weeks.<\/p>\n

Monet \u2013 described on an Apple Music artist profile as \u201ca contemporary R&B vocalist\u201d \u2013\u00a0is operated by Mississippi poet and designer Telisha \u201cNikki\u201d Jones, who reportedly uses the generative software to set her poems to music, and back in September, it was revealed that she had signed a multimillion-dollar record deal<\/a>\u00a0with Hallwood Media after a bidding war between multiple labels.<\/p>\n

Monet\u2019s track \u2018How Was I Supposed to Know?\u2019 came out at No. 30 on the Adult R&B Airplay chart this week, and also took the top spot on the R&B Digital Song Sales chart and, since the summer, has appeared on Hot Gospel Songs, Hot R&B Songs, and Emerging Artists charts.<\/p>\n

She has reportedly racked up 44.4 million official U.S. streams, equating to over $52,000 in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kehlani has previously hit out at the success of Monet<\/a>, telling fans on TikTok the proliferation of AI in music was \u201cso beyond out of our control.\u201d\u00a0She went on to highlight the power of AI to create fully formed songs without users having to \u201ccredit anyone\u201d involved in making the copyrighted works on which such generative music systems are trained.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing and no one on Earth will ever be able to justify AI to me,\u201d she added. Other critics of the tech include Mac DeMarco<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SZA<\/a>, while\u00a0ABBA\u2018s Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus has called AI \u201csuch a great tool\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It comes during a period of continued controversy for AI technology in the music industry, with a recent study sharing the stark warning that\u00a0people working in music are likely to lose a quarter of their income to Artificial Intelligence over the next four years.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a0Spotify confirmed that it was cracking down on AI by removing 75million \u201cspammy tracks\u201d and targeting impersonators<\/a>. The statement, titled \u2018Spotify Strengthens AI Protections For Artists, Songwriters, And Producers\u2019, added: \u201cAI technology is evolving fast, and we\u2019ll continue to roll out new policies frequently.\u201d<\/p>\n

This followed a report claiming that\u00a0AI-generated songs were being uploaded to dead musicians\u2019 Spotify profiles without permission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, an AI-generated \u2018band\u2019 called The Velvet Sundown made headlines after\u00a0gaining around 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 despite only existing for less than a month.\u00a0A \u2018spokesperson\u2019 for the viral act later admitted that he was running a hoax aimed at \u201cthe media\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for how The Velvet Sundown got so many listeners on Spotify, he said: \u201cI know we got on some playlists that just have like tons of followers, and it seems to have spiralled from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Deezer recently revealed that 28 per cent of music uploaded to the streaming platform<\/a>\u00a0was fully AI-generated.<\/p>\n

Paul McCartney<\/a>,\u00a0Kate Bush<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Elton John<\/a>\u00a0are among the big British artists to have\u00a0urged Keir Starmer to protect the work of creatives<\/a>\u00a0last month. This came after\u00a0the Prime Minister told\u00a0NME<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s very important we protect creativity, and we\u2019re brilliant at creativity in this country \u2013 we punch well above our weight within the country and globally, and we\u2019re all very proud of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get the balance right. That\u2019s why we did a long and important consultation, and we\u2019re going through the responses of that consultation now. So it is a question of getting the balance right.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments followed a\u00a0call on the UK government from various major acts to change copyright laws to combat the tech<\/a>\u00a0as it progresses rapidly.\u00a0Elton John claimed in January that AI would \u201cdilute and threaten young artists\u2019 earnings\u201d<\/a>, while backing\u00a0criticism from Paul McCartney<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cXania Monet\u201d has become the first AI artist to chart on US Billboard rankings. READ MORE:\u00a0Keir Starmer tells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-243495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}