Artificial intelligence is in every single place and the music charts aren’t any completely different.
According to Billboard, an AI singer named Xania Monet is “the first known AI artist to earn enough radio airplay to debut on a Billboard radio chart.”
So far, Monet has appeared on a number of Billboard charts since first releasing a music in summer time 2025, together with the Hot Gospel Songs (for her music “Let Go, Let God”) and the Hot R&B Songs chart (for her music “How Was I Supposed to Know”), in accordance to the publication.
Now, she’s been signed to a multimillion-dollar file cope with Hallwood Media after what Billboard known as “a bidding war.”
Hollywood has lengthy been apprehensive about the ramifications of AI performers taking work from people. (See the latest controversy over AI actress Tilly Norwood.) But as loud as the considerations may be, AI continues to develop in the arts.
With greater than 146,000 followers on Instagram alone, Monet is proof that buyers are more and more open to the thought, even when the trade is riled by it.
Monet’s Apple Music artist profile explains that Monet is “an Al figure presented as a contemporary R&B vocalist in the highly expressive, church-bred, down-to-earth vein of Keyshia Cole, K. Michelle, and Muni Long.”
Monet was designed by Telisha Nikki Jones, a poet from Mississippi who writes the lyrics Monet is seen performing with assist from Suno, “a generative artificial intelligence music creation program,” the bio explains.
Monet launched a full-length album “Unfolded” in August, which had 24 songs. A seven-track EP, “Pieces Left Behind,” adopted in September.
A press launch from Monet’s consultant touted the AI singer’s “smooth, soulful sound” and “human-like delivery.” But Romel Murphy, who says he’s Monet’s supervisor and spoke with NCS’s Victor Blackwell, insisted that there is no intent to change human singers and songwriters.
“AI doesn’t replace the artist. That’s not our goal at all. It doesn’t diminish the creativity and doesn’t take away from the human experience,” he stated. “It’s a new frontier and like anything would change some people are receptive and some people are apprehensive.”
Billboard just lately reported that “in just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings.”
“That figure could be higher, as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI — and to what extent,” in accordance to the publication. “Many of these charting projects, whose music spans every genre from gospel to rock to country, also arrive with anonymous or mysterious origins.”
Murphy doesn’t seem to see a problem and likens all of it to the music of Michael Jackson and Prince, who died in 2009 and 2016 respectively.
“They both have music catalogs that are expanding decades to this day. Youth are still listening to those songs and they’re no longer with us and they’re connected to their music,” Murphy stated. “So it is the music because they don’t have the history of the contact or the concert live field, but they still love those songs. Music has to evolve as well.”
“We just have to keep the integrity and be intentional about the realness of it and push the music to the world,” he added.
NCS has reached out to Monet’s consultant for remark.
Meanwhile, working musicians are – as anticipated– troubled.
“There is an AI R&B artist who just signed a multimillion-dollar deal … and the person is doing none of the work,” Kehlani said of Monet in a now-deleted video posted to TikTok. “This is so beyond out of our control.”
The human singer added: “Nothing and no one on Earth will ever be able to justify AI to me.”