AI female singer enters Billboard chart, records contract worth 4.4 billion won...Threatening human singers?
Nov 12, 2025
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This is the first achievement for an AI artist and is raising interest in the role of AI in the music industry.
According to CBS and other foreign media, AI singer Jania Monet is an AI avatar created by the Mississippi poet and lyricist Telisha 'Niki'Jones, and her life-inspired poems and lyrics are implemented as R&B music through the AI music generation platform 'Suno'. Jones described Jania as an extension of his own, stressing that "AI is just a tool to strengthen art, and both messages and emotions belong to humans."
Zania's signature song 'How Was I Supposed to Know' gained popularity through word of mouth on TikTok and later spread to various platforms, entering the Billboard R&B chart 30.
Within four months of her debut, she released 44 songs on Spotify, with 1.2 million followers and more than 800,000 fans on social media.
Thanks to its popularity, record label Hallwood Media signed a $3 million (W4.4 billion) contract for Jania and her creator, Jones.
In response, Jones said "I just combined the creation I love with technology"AI is a tool of a new era, and I'm using it like an instrument"
However, concerns about the rise of AI artists are also growing in the music industry.
Some artists are worried that streaming platforms and record labels will invest more in AI than humans, arguing that their position could be threatened in that AI can produce content quickly. The demand for legal protection has not yet been realized.
Jones acknowledged that he does not sing himself but embodies poetry as music through AI, but emphasized that "I just used AI as a tool, and the true artist is myself."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
