Chez Spigelman

AI music is now on the front line of the music industry's fight with generative AI. Australia's ARIA banned AI-generated songs from its official charts this year, Bandcamp has banned them outright, and Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer are all labelling or removing AI tracks. But the chart battles are the visible fight. The bigger shift is happening quietly, in the background of cafés, shops, gyms and hotels around the world. Every business that plays music in public needs a performance licence, and a personal Spotify or Apple Music account does not cover it. Businesses are now switching to licence-free, AI-assisted music to cut that cost. Cafés in New Zealand are making the move, and in Belgium, Carrefour and Brico are rolling out AI music across roughly 700 stores. The Belgian collect...