Earlier this week, we reported on SZA’s fury with AI platforms like Suno, and the artists that collaborate with them. Her warning to other artists – all-caps tirade warning – was […]
Tag: Suno
Suno’s chief product officer defends ‘platform integrity’ policies
Suno is preparing to launch its first model based on music licensed from rightsholders: something its CEO Mikey Shulman trailed in his recent announcement of the company’s $400m funding round.
American Federation of Musicians sues majors over AI deals
US-based musicians’ union the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has launched a lawsuit against UMG and WMG over their AI deals.
Cisac launches Paris Commitment while Human Artistry Campaign takes to skies with Suno protest
Collecting-societies body Cisac has been taking a prominent role in the AI policy debates. Its latest contribution is a declaration.
Suno raises $400m funding and teases its first licensed model
Speculation about a monster funding round for AI-music firm Suno has been running rife in recent months, but yesterday the official announcement came: a $400m Series D round which Suno […]
Suno is riding the wave of TikTok’s new ‘text to song’ trend
“Is AI music the next Snapchat filter?” wonders the latest thinkpiece from Rolling Stone, focusing on a burgeoning ‘text to song’ trend on TikTok. What’s that? It’s when people use AI-music […]
Why We Built an AI Music Video Generator That Listens to Songs
In 2021, my co-founders and I began developing the music-vision foundation model that would become Freebeat. The question that drove us, as engineers and lifelong music lovers, was simple: why […]
AI music roundup: Udio on attribution, Splice, Tamber and more
We could have filled the entire Music Ally site with AI-music stories today. But with so much going on, combining them offers a snapshot.
Suno reportedly looking to raise $1/4 billion+ in latest funding round
Only six months ago, GenAI music platform Suno announced a $250m Series-C funding round. That valued the company at $2.45bn and took its total funding (post seed and Series A rounds) to […]
TuneCore will not distribute AI tracks made on ‘pirate studios’
Believe and its TuneCore subsidiary have adopted a new policy when it comes to AI-generated music: they will not distribute tracks made using “pirate studios”. Note the small ‘p’ and […]
Suno recruitment ad points to more music-industry dealmaking
Suno is still battling lawsuits from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Group, but the company’s latest recruitment ad points to its desire for more dealmaking with rightsholders. The ad […]
IngaRose is a hit as SIQA launches ‘AI Music Intelligence’ report
Actually, a quick public service announcement about ‘hit’ first. It may be high time we stopped using ‘is number one on an iTunes chart somewhere’ as a marker for success […]

