Spotify, UMG To Let Fans Make Their Own Music With AI
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/05/22/1737220/spotify-umg-to-let-fans-make-their-own-music-with-ai
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> Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal for recorded music and publishing rights, enabling Spotify to launch generative AI music models in the future. With this deal, Spotify's models will [1]allow fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters signed to UMG. The new deal was [2]announced on Thursday (May 21) as part of Spotify's Investor Day presentation, and the company touts that it will open up additional revenue streams on top of what artists already earn on Spotify and will provide new discovery opportunities for participating UMG talent. These AI products will eventually become available to premium users as a paid add-on. It is unclear when they are set to launch.
"We recognize there's a wide range of views on use of generative music tools within the artistic community," the announcement read. "Therefore, artists and rightsholders will choose if and how to participate to ensure the use of AI tools aligns with the values of the people behind the music."
Spotify also announced a feature called "Reserved" that will [3]set aside concert tickets for Premium subscribers it identifies as an artist's most dedicated fans. "Getting concert tickets today can feel like a race you're set up to lose," Spotify wrote in a post on Thursday. "You show up at the right time, refresh endlessly, and still miss out. Too often, the experience is stressful, unpredictable, and disconnected from what should matter most: whether real fans actually get tickets. We think there's a better way."
[1] https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-and-umg-strike-licensing-deal-for-ai-covers-remixes/
[2] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-05-21/universal-music-group-spotify-licensing-agreements-fan-made-covers-remixes/
[3] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/05/21/1713205/spotify-will-start-reserving-concert-tickets-for-fans
This is fine (Score:2)
We've already seen this on social media, where people take a couple pieces of truth and a couple fabrications and add their own framework to create a new reality that happens to jibe exactly with their own world view.
Yes, it's also bad when it happens to the arts--but at least the shitty output can't affect anyone against their will.
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Most artists probably will be forced into this by their labels.
I heard an absolute banger (Score:3)
I hope AI can help me make something like this [1]absolute banger song [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wChMzO7nciM
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Reminds me of this one: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcYl70vq_Ns
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I'm in this video, and I don't like it.
Pretty much my initial experience with vibe coding.
Well that's made that decision easy. (Score:2)
My 12 month Premium sub ended a week ago, I was contemplating on whether to continue subscribing, already a bit reluctant to due to the amount of AI slop on it and this will just make it ten times worse. This has made my decision much easier. Now to decide where to go next.
Who didn't see this coming (Score:2)
When UMG backe away from the lawsuit of AI music hinting that it's artists could opt in to something. Now we know what that something is. So only thing now is which artists have opted in to this.
This is an abuse of AI tech (Score:2)
At best, it will be a bit of fun, like playing a video game. But it will be personal fun. Nobody wants to listen to or pay for this slop.
Hopefully, the silly fad will pass quickly and people will rediscover the magic of real bands playing live.
It will all sound like Metallica (Score:2)
Napster strikes back.