{"id":42104,"date":"2025-09-01T16:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=42104"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:59:06","slug":"%e9%a6%96%e4%bd%8dai-%e9%9f%b3%e4%b9%90%e4%ba%ba%e7%ad%be%e7%ba%a6%e5%94%b1%e7%89%87%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8%ef%bc%9a%e6%bc%94%e5%94%b1%e4%b9%90%e5%99%a8%e9%83%bd%e4%b8%8d%e4%bc%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/42104.html","title":{"rendered":"First \"AI musician\" signs with record label: releases songs even if he can't sing or play a musical instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) - The Associated Press reported last week (Aug. 31) that Oliver McCann, a music creator from the U.K., had a meeting last month with the independent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%94%b1%e7%89%87%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [record label]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Record Company<\/a> Hallwood Media has signed a contract.<strong>Become the first in the industry to work with a record label<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%ad%be%e7%ba%a6\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [contract]]\" target=\"_blank\" >contract<\/a>of&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e9%9f%b3%e4%b9%90%e4%ba%ba\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI Musician]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI musician<\/a>\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42105\" title=\"cccd166cj00t1wjlf000kd000qd00gqp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cccd166cj00t1wjlf000kd000qd00gqp.jpg\" alt=\"cccd166cj00t1wjlf000kd000qd00gqp\" width=\"949\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oliver McCann, 37, known by his stage name imoliver, is a visual designer by trade.<strong>He can't sing.<\/strong>,<strong>musical instrument<\/strong>,<strong>No musical background whatsoever.<\/strong>He started out using AI song-generation tools (note: Suno, Udio, etc.) to inspire him to turn his own lyrics into real songs, covering indie-pop, country-rap, and electro genres.<\/p>\n<p>But McCann only epitomizes the popularity of \"AI music\". According to music streaming platform Deezer, 18% of the music uploaded by its users every day is generated entirely by AI, but the number of plays of these songs is generally very low, and not many people actually listen to them, while mainstream platforms such as Spotify refuse to disclose any AI-generated music data. Mainstream platforms like Spotify refuse to disclose any AI-generated music data.<\/p>\n<p>It's worth noting that the \"Big Three\" of the recording industry - Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group - filed a copyright lawsuit last year against AI music-generating platforms such as Suno and Udio.<strong>In June of this year, the \"Big Three\" also started negotiations.<\/strong>,<strong>Hopes for future agreement on AI songwriting split<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press said that the field of \"AI music\" is still in a \"copyright vacuum\", and that in the future, the major record companies will certainly reach a consensus on this field, so that the music will become more \"formal\". AI music\" is still in a \"copyright vacuum\", the AP said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1 news, according to the Associated Press reported last week (August 31), from the United Kingdom music creator Oliver McCann last month signed a contract with the independent record company Hallwood Media, becoming the industry's first with the record company signed \"AI musician\". Oliver McCann, 37, who goes by the stage name imoliver and is a visual designer by trade, doesn't sing, play an instrument, or have any musical background, and started out using AI song-generation tools (note: Suno, Udio, etc.) to inspire him to turn his own lyrics into real songs, covering indie pop, country rap, and electronica genres. But McCann only<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[7489,2254,7490],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-42104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-2254","tag-7490"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42104"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=42104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}