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Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal

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Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qualifies only if “humans wrote the song and perf…

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  1. 2026-08-25 22:14 · The Next Web
    Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal

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