An AI-created act, Breaking Rust, has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart with “Walk My Walk,” marking a first for the genre and intensifying the music industry’s debate over generative AI. The anonymous project has amassed more than 2 million monthly Spotify listeners as multiple tracks rack up seven-figure streams and social media buzz. The milestone is likely to sharpen calls from prominent artists for tighter guardrails on AI use and raise fresh questions for labels, platforms and regulators over authorship, royalties and disclosure. Industry observers expect more AI-native acts to surface on charts even as legal and policy challenges mount.
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