AI Music Goes to #1 on Country Digital Charts!! During November of 2025, AI music made a major breakthrough by topping a Billboard music category for digital sales of country music! There are now significant numbers of music listeners that are apparently willing to pay for computer generated music, vocals, and/or lyrics in a song. Or are they? Did they know when they paid and downloaded the song that it was completely AI generated? And did they know that the tune itself may have been “AI trained” on the music, lyrics and voice of a real life artist known to the AI song “lyricist”? Are blues audiences the next to encounter this kind of deception?
The song Walk My Walk by Breaking Rust hit number one on the Billboard country digital charts during the past month. Yet nowhere in the listing for the song does it state that it is AI generated. And if you search within the Spotify music software, you will find the group Breaking Rust listed as a blue check “verified artist” with over 7 million streams of the song. (Must be real right since they have a “blue check”?!) And both Apple Music and Spotify also list Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor as the composer/lyricist. According to an Associated Press article on November 28, 2025 by Jonathan Landrum Jr., Taylor is also credited as songwriter and producer for Defbeatsai which is one of several X-rated, AI-generated country artists that came out last year. And this is where it gets really interesting…..
As it turns out, according to the AP article, Taylor is a pseudo name used by Abraham Abushmais. And Abushmais once collaborated with real life Grammy award nominated country artist, Blanco Brown. And guess who the voice and music on Walk My Walk sounds like? You got it…..Blanco Brown. And Blanco is not a happy camper!!
As we all know, a computer is not sentient, even an AI music one. It is “trained” by being fed huge amounts of existing lyrics, music, and the real life voices of existing music artists. Many music industry leaders as well as academic authorities claim that AI “trained” music has, in fact, been stolen and violates existing copyright laws. And in the case of Abushmais, according to Blanco, he didn’t have to go far to find material to “train” on.
So, will all this impact blues music? Is this same type of deception happening in the blues genre? And the answer is an emphatic YES. All the staff and DJs at Blue Music Fan Radio are struggling with rooting out AI music that is being deceptively marketed and distributed as real human created and performed blues.
Here is just one example among DOZENS that I have reviewed in the last month: Hurricane James Blues Project , the song Ready to Die, from the album Dark Gospel. The “about artist” summary on Spotify lists James “Hurricane” Finlay, Jimi Homeless, and Lonesome Jon Kinyon as being involved. As far as I can tell, none of them are real people and it is AI music. But NOWHERE does it indicate that the summary is fiction and the music is AI generated.
As is obvious, the major music streaming services are making little to no effort to stop the deception surrounding the distribution of AI music. But there is hope. I know of a couple of people now that were deceived and bought and downloaded AI music who have had their money refunded to them. And several major music organizations are suing the two major AI music generating platforms. But it will take years to get a legal resolution. In the meantime, we will stay aware and be vigilant in making sure that the blues you hear on BMFR is from real life artists.
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