AI-Created Band Dominates Spotify With Anodyne Catalog

Velvet Sundown, a likely AI-created musical act, released two albums last month and has grown to more than 850,000 Spotify monthly listeners, raising questions about authenticity and artistic origin. The rise, enabled by tools like Suno and large language models that generate lyrics, vocals and imagery, exemplifies how streaming-era curation favors bland, playlist-compatible tracks used as ambient background rather than culturally specific artistic statements.