An AI-generated country song has claimed the top spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart.
“Walk My Walk,” by Breaking Rust, rocketed to No. 1 last week, becoming the first fully AI-produced track to achieve such a feat in the country genre.
According to Billboard, Breaking Rust is an artificial intelligence creation that burst onto the scene via Instagram in mid-October, complete with an AI-generated cowboy avatar and folksy video clips.
An AI-generated song has become the first-ever No. 1 hit on the US Billboard chart, according to Newsweek.
Breaking Rust’s “Walk My Walk” topped the country chart.
This AI-generated musician’s songs accumulated over 1 million plays on Spotify.
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The band’s AI slop, including the chart-topper, features bland, interchangeable lyrics that critics say scream “machine-made” hollow verses about walking life’s path without a shred of authentic twang or soul.
Breaking Rust debuted at No. 9 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart and racked up 1.6 million official U.S. streams. Songwriting credits go to Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, but it is actually a faceless algorithm behind it all.
As Breitbart’s John Nolte pointed out in his takedown:
“The story here is what the story has been since AI first peeked over the horizon to announce its intent to storm popular culture, and that’s this: There’s nothing anyone can do to stop this. Nothing. AI is coming, and it’s coming for all of us, and while I don’t believe it is as serious threat as James Cameron made it out to be in Terminator, nor do I think it can replace the soul (or whatever that indefinable spark is) that makes us human. No way can a computer do anything but copy what it has been taught, and there is something about the human spirit that can never be taught—inspiration, the muse, that kind of thing.”
This isn’t an isolated incident. Billboard reports that at least six AI or AI-assisted “artists” have hit their charts in recent months, spanning gospel, rock, and now country. These digital phantoms often emerge anonymously, making it harder than ever to separate real talent from robotic mimicry.
Nolte pointed out that country music heavyweights are sounding the alarm.
Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker called AI-powered music “scary,” confessing, “I don’t want to wake up one day and have a robot standing over me. It’s scary, but technology can be that way.”
Old Dominion’s Matthew Ramsey echoed the fears, warning that AI could wipe out the “middle-class music industry” by sidelining songwriters and performers.
Legends like Randy Travis and Martina McBride have blasted unauthorized AI deepfakes of their voices. At the same time, last year, a coalition of over 100 artists, including Billie Eilish and Stevie Wonder, begged tech giants to halt tools that mimic human creators.
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