Australia's recording association bans AI-made music from charts

The Australian Recording Industry Association announced today that any tracks wholly generated with AI will not be eligible for inclusion on the nation's music charts. The Code of Practice for the charts will allow songs that use generative AI to be counted, but only if the track in question "is substantially human made" and "raises no stream or chart manipulation concerns." These rules will apply to the charts beginning this Friday. Tracks not eligible for the charts will also not be able to win an ARIA Award. "The ARIA Charts will always remain a transparent measurement of the music Australia consumes, but a chart that rewards unlicensed AI output would undercut the very basis of the recorded music we exist to represent," said ARIA CEO, Annabelle Herd.