I'm starting this list of songs made with Artificial Intelligence programs (AI) in late 2025, and there are not many titles on it, but as AI is used more in music production this list should keep growing.
YouTube requires that AI music be described as digitally generated, but it's hard to know if a song was fully-generated by AI, or if a human musician was also involved, so some of these songs may be AI-enhanced. All of the songs on this list were available to listen to online when I added them, but I see that several of them have already been taken down from You'tube. That could be due to copyright issues involving how the AI program was trained on existing music, which has been an ongoing legal problem for AI companies. Some of the artists on this list have even disappeared from YouTube already. AI is still the wild wild west of music. Listeners beware!
You can now go online, type in a description of a song you want to make, and an AI site will make a complete song for you in minutes. They can also make a music video complete with AI musicians, and album cover artwork. (The ones on the left took ChatGPT only seconds to generate.) It doesn't seem to matter to many listeners if a song is made by humans or computers since fully-AI-created music has made its way onto music and sales charts, along with AI-generated images of band members, but this easy use of AI programs in music has created a lot of controversy with musicians and songwriters who fear they could become obsolete. It's already hard now to tell the difference between songs written and recorded by humans and songs made entirely by computer programs, since so much contemporary music is already made on computers using autotune and other computer processing. Most of it is also created by teams of producers and writers, and all of this tends to remove some of the human individuality from the music. Some songwriters and producers are also now using AI to enhance music they write and produce, which further complicates the controversy. When the use of electronic synthesizers and samplers and drum machines became common in some genres of music in the 1980s, some musicians complained that they would take away the need for human musicians, but that didn't happen.
Maybe fully-made AI music will take over the entire music industry and we will have to go to concerts with nothing but computers and robots on stage or maybe AI will become just another tool used by human musicians and not the sole song creator. It's going to be interesting to see and hear what happens.
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