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AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart

by flinner on 4/6/2026, 3:57:07 PM

https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/04/05/itunes-takeover-by-fake-ai-singer-eddie-dalton-now-occupies-eleven-spots-on-chart-despite-not-being-human-or-real-exclusive

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by: leviathant

I have no doubt that those numbers have been inflated by AI powered marketing tools, dead internet theory style.

4/6/2026, 4:20:42 PM


by: notatoad

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aHQevuohJH8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aHQevuohJH8</a><p>my music tastes are pretty mainstream, and this just does absolutely nothing for me. it&#x27;s exactly what i&#x27;d expect AI music to sound like - completely forgettable, with nothing interesting about it.<p>i&#x27;d be willing to believe that this music was legitimately charting if it had at least some redeeming qualities, but i can&#x27;t imagine how this could honestly get eleven spots on the iTunes chart without gaming it in some way.

4/6/2026, 5:12:56 PM


by: smilbandit

I dabbled with AI music for a bit with Suno. Worked out well for the most part, only way I&#x27;m ever going to hear music with themes for some of niche things I like, like Shadowrun. I threw a bunch of music genres at it and some were good enough that I added them to my normal playlist but after about 30 completed songs I had a hard time coming up with new stuff. As someone who has never tried to create music myself it was fun to play with.

4/6/2026, 5:29:24 PM


by: cdrnsf

This is no more art than a container of corn syrup is a proper meal.

4/6/2026, 5:08:12 PM


by: bobthepanda

The iTunes chart primarily focuses on sales velocity, not streams, and so I wonder how useful that is in 2026 and how easy it is to game.

4/6/2026, 4:10:33 PM


by: jmathai

We&#x27;ve seen a steady shift in music over the past 2 decades from full length albums, to single hits, to artificially generated.<p>Surely there&#x27;s some gained and some lost. But coming from the era of buying an entire album, spending time reading the CD booklets and art, and listening to 10 songs which tell a larger story ---- what&#x27;s being lost really hits home.

4/6/2026, 4:12:08 PM


by: daemonologist

It&#x27;s interesting to me that all AI music sounds slightly sibilant - like someone taped a sheet of paper to the speaker or covered my head in dry leaves. I know no model is perfect but I&#x27;d have thought they&#x27;d have ironed out this problem by now, given how pervasive it is and how significantly it degrades the end product.

4/6/2026, 5:28:54 PM


by: pickleglitch

The top 40 has always been riddled with garbage, in my opinion, but at least real, human musicians were making a living from their art.

4/6/2026, 5:16:50 PM


by: futureproofd

It&#x27;s as if what William Gibson wrote about in Idoru has already become a reality. Soon we will see celebrity AI gossip.

4/6/2026, 4:35:54 PM


by: HardwareLust

I just checked Spotify, it has 368k followers and at least one song has over 1M streams.

4/6/2026, 4:24:24 PM


by: pjmlp

Thankfully I still buy proper music, what a sad state for human culture.

4/6/2026, 4:32:04 PM


by: adzm

Live shows are the biggest part of music anyway

4/6/2026, 4:48:53 PM


by: yokoprime

iTunes? i wonder what kind of sales we&#x27;re talking about here. people buying music is few and far between, and i wonder what percentage of that customer base buys their music on iTunes when there are great alternatives offering lossless files

4/6/2026, 4:51:09 PM


by: everdrive

It&#x27;s similar pattern that we&#x27;ve seen previously, but exaggerated by modern trends and modern technology: the most popular cultural items will often be meaningless and base, and if you want something substantial you need other ways to find meaningful content.

4/6/2026, 4:51:00 PM


by: bparsons

Grifters figured out several years ago that the iTunes sales chart is extremely gameable, and can be juiced for some cheap headlines.

4/6/2026, 4:50:58 PM


by: testycool

I mostly listen to AI-generated music. 8 out of 10 of my top listens in the last 180 days are AI-generated.<p>I gradually went from various genres -&gt; mostly nerdcore -&gt; mostly AI nerdcore.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.last.fm&#x2F;user&#x2F;testycool" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.last.fm&#x2F;user&#x2F;testycool</a>

4/6/2026, 4:55:37 PM