Now, here’s a first. A country song created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently topping the Billboard Country Charts. The bot called Breaking Rust is currently the number one song on the charts. The song is called “Walk My Walk” and the artist is not human. This is the first song generated by artificial intelligence that has topped the chart.
The song is credited to Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor who no one knows much about. Taylor does not have much of an online presence. The name is linked to Breaking Rust and another AI project known as Defbeatsai. The song has a blues sound to it and some may say lacks emotion behind the voice.
But the rise of AI musicians is no longer an anomaly. Earlier this year, the mysterious rock band Velvet Sundown drew attention for reaching 550,000 Spotify listeners in a month, despite evidence that its members were AI-generated.
While Breaking Rust’s music sounds indistinguishable from mainstream country, its creation process is entirely synthetic.