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Will The Velvet Sundown Soon Face a Streaming Crackdown? DSP Hiccups Raise Questions As Spotify Monthly Listeners Top 1.18 Million
Millions of streams – and an avalanche of publicity – later, is “synthetic music project” The Velvet Sundown facing a ...
Rock Band with More Than 1 Million Monthly Spotify Listeners Reveals Itself as AI Project, Including Its Musicians
Popular rock band The Velvet Sundown, which has amassed more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, has been revealed to be an AI project ...
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Viral Indie Rock Band With Over 1 Million Monthly Spotify Listeners Reveals Its Actually AI
The Velvet Sundown quickly racked up Spotify listeners and playlists inclusions, but the band isn't what it seems.
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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 ...
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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.
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 ...
Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore
As I drove amid the cornfields on I-90, the Velvet Sundown did just that. The band’s tracks were not satisfying in any way, ...
The Velvet Sundown’s sub-Neil Young AI slop should have fooled nobody
This sub-Neil Young waffle has caught the ear of millions – but it should fool no one. The Velvet Sundown are an AI band ...