An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming.
The song, titled “Walk My Walk,” by a fictional group called Breaking Rust, tells an incredibly generic story about a man who has “been beat down” and got “mud on my jeans,” yet perseveres through it all. The song was accompanied by an AI slop video on Instagram, showing a man in a cowboy hat heroically walking into the sunset.
Despite the song’s generic and uninspired nature, Breaking Rust has accumulated over two million monthly listeners on Spotify, where it’s listed as a “verified artist,” despite having no bio. Several of its songs have been played over a million times. One single, which was

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