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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 ...
Velvet Sundown and the AI challenge of verifying "authenticity"
The viral Spotify "band" turned out to be an AI-generated art project, raising new questions for marketers about trust, ...
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 ...
The new band that wasn't: Where the Velvet Sundown
When Velvet Sundown recently released its new album, it made a rapid rise through the Spotify charts and attracted nearly two million monthly listeners. Not bad for a band that didn't exist before ...
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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.
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, ...