The Baseline AI Music - Edition #4

Happy New Year ✨ - Welcome to The Baseline, a weekly newsletter covering the most interesting AI Music topics and top trending tracks of the week pulled from our own AI Music Chart!

⭐ Baseline’s Song of the Week - Listen while you read!

🎶 What’s New in AI Music?

AI Guardrails for Anthropic (more)
Copyright protection is all the buzz when it comes to AI´s use in the music industry and things just got interesting. Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, and several other music pubishers have successfully secured a court-approved agreement with Anthropic, the AI company behind the chatbot Claude. This deal introduces "guardrails" to prevent Anthropic’s AI systems from reproducing copyrighted song lyrics without authorization. These measures include maintaining existing safeguards and ensuring that future AI models comply with the same stringent standards, marking a significant step in balancing innovation with intellectual property rights.

Why does this matter? As AI continues to reshape music creation and consumption, the industry faces new challenges in protecting artists' rights. This agreement sets a precedent, emphasizing that AI companies must work collaboratively with rights holders to ensure fair use and legal compliance. For music creators, this is a moment of reassurance that their work won't be misused, while opening doors for more structured partnerships between AI technology providers and the music industry. Such developments pave the way for responsible innovation, benefiting both artists and tech companies as they explore AI's potential together.

📈 This Week’s Top Tracks - Baseline´s AI Music Chart

1. "The Stray" – Hotpot of Genres (21K streams)

2. "Plastic People" – Jonathan Kennedy (20k streams)

3. "限界のない" – AurasVseillya (16k streams)

4. "Stare Up At Sunshine" – ngf50 (2093streams)

5. "Starduft Punk 2025" – Master Phono (1015 streams)

💡 Exciting Technology

AI Music platform for brands and influencers (more)
TuneTu is an AI-driven music creation platform that crafts personalized tracks for brands and influencers. By analysing a client's brand identity, target audience, and desired emotional impact, TuneTu generates custom music that aligns with specific marketing objectives.

The platform offers a user-friendly interface where clients can input their preferences, such as genre, tempo, and mood. TuneTu's AI then composes unique tracks tailored to these specifications, ensuring the music resonates with the intended audience.

This development is part of a broader movement towards AI-generated music tailored for commercial use. For instance, Beatoven's AI music generator promises to compensate rightsholders, ensuring ethical music creation. Similarly, BeatStars and Lemonaide have launched 'Collab Club,' an AI-driven platform for producers to collaborate

As AI continues to evolve, platforms like TuneTu are poised to play a significant role in how brands and influencers incorporate music into their marketing strategies, offering innovative solutions that blend technology with creativity.

Gen-AI funding tripled in 2024 to £44bn (more)
GenAI companies globally raised a staggering £44bn from venture capital firms in 2024. This funding spanned 885 deals, representing a nearly threefold increase (up 192%) compared to 2023's total of £23bn.

In the music space, Music Ally reported on several AI-related startups securing funding over the past year, including Soundraw (£2.4m), Created By Humans (£4 million), ProRata (£20 million), and PlayAI (£16m). The largest funding round of the year went to Suno, an AI music creation firm, which raised £99m in May 2024. However, just a month later, Suno, along with fellow startup Udio, faced lawsuits from major record labels.

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Sources: Recordoftheday, MusicAlly, Openpr