Why Australia’s music industry banned AI music in chart listing | Explained
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has banned songs created entirely by AI from its music charts to protect human artists. The policy allows for AI-assisted music provided it is substantially human-made and transparently labeled.
Why it matters
This represents a significant regulatory step by the music industry to address the tension between generative AI tools and copyright/authenticity in creative works.
The story so far: Australia’s music industry body—the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)—on August 25 banned songs wholly made using AI, noting such tracks will be ineligible for listing on its charts. The announcement comes after the viral fame that found an AI remix of Madonna’s 1989 song ‘Like a Prayer,’ made by Australian music producer and disc jockey Josh Fawaz earlier this year. The AI song enjoyed multiple weeks on the country’s top 20 chart and ranked second on ARIA’s top 20 Australian singles chart, per AP. It also scored over 23 million views on YouTube.
The use of AI to compose the song was not clearly disclosed initially, angering listeners and musicians who want synthetic music to be transparently labelled.
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