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Rock band with more than 1 million Spotify listeners reveals it’s entirely AI-generated — down to the musicians themselves

This isn’t a trick – it’s a mirror. An ongoing artistic provocation designed to challenge the boundaries of authorship, identity, and the future of music itself in the age of

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Disturbing truth behind new rock band with more than 1,000,000 Spotify listeners after releasing two albums in one month

In a matter of weeks, alternative band The Velvet Sundown quite literally went from zero to hero, appearing out of nowhere and racking up more than 900,000 followers on Spotify. Now, the truth behind the group has been revealed.

PCMag on MSN · 3d

This Band With a Million Monthly Spotify Listeners Now Confirms It's Using AI

It's tough as a band to record, release, and market two new albums in under 30 days, but it's much easier if all of the music is artificially generated. That's confirmed to be the case with The Velvet Sundown,

The Velvet Sundown, AI and Spotify

Digital Trends · 3d

Spotify hit band The Velvet Sundown comes clean on AI

Frelon said he created The Velvet Sundown tracks using the generative-AI tool Suno before posting them on Spotify, where the band now has more than a million monthly listeners. Case settled, then. But apparently not.

Mashable on MSN · 3d

The Velvet Sundown changes Spotify bio, gives AI update

Remember The Velvet Sundown, that new Spotify group that people accused of being AI-generated? Welp, it turns out it's AI-generated. Or at least partly. Over the weekend, the band – which currently has over a million monthly listeners on Spotify – updated its "About" page to address its use of artificial intelligence.

Newsweek on MSN · 1d

Who Are The Velvet Sundown? What We Know About AI Band

A band called The Velvet Sundown has launched a debut album on Spotify, and the group has quickly racked up over a million listeners. And though the group's aesthetic and sound seem lifted out of the Sunset Strip in the '60s or '70s, the reality is a little different.

Rock band that topped Spotify charts reveal dark truth behind their rapid rise to fame

A rock band who soared to the top of Spotify's charts have revealed the truth about their rapid rise to fame in an update ...

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Is The Velvet Sundown a real band? Spotify's top rock band admits to being generated by AI after gaining 1M listeners

On Saturday, July 5, an indie rock band called The Velvet Sundown admitted to be AI-generated and not a real one through a social media post and by also updating its Spotify bio.

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A ’60s-flavored band blew up on Spotify. They’re AI.

The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.

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The Velvet Sundown hit 1.1m Spotify listeners – with an honest bio

The band’s Spotify bio has been updated with an honest description of what the project is, while their listener count ...

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The Velvet Sundown Cracks One Million Spotify Monthly Listeners Amid Publicity Storm — How High Will the ‘Synthetic Music Project’ Climb?

A blitz of media coverage has now propelled The Velvet Sundown past one million Spotify monthly listeners. Meanwhile, an ...

Apple and Spotify are sleepwalking into an AI music crisis – and The Velvet Sundown mess shows they need to act fast

In fact, The Velvet Sundown is one of a number of recent ‘bands’ that have exposed a massive loophole in the big music ...

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An indie band is blowing up on Spotify, but people think its AI

Suno was one of two AI companies sued last year by major record labels — including Universal Music Group, Sony Music ...

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Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes

Velvet Sundown has racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify - without anyone even being sure if it's real.

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