AI-Generated Song Reaches Number One on Digital Billboard

What Happened?

This week, an AI-generated country song entitled ‘Walk My Walk’ reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. The song was released by Breaking Rust, which is also an AI generation. According to Digital Trends, the Breaking Rust ‘project’ is credited to songwriter Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor and has generated 1.6 million official U.S. streams.

Walk My Walk is not the first AI-generated song to reach the top spot on a Billboard chart. Xania Monet reached number one on the R&B Digital Song Sales chart earlier in November 2025, making her the first AI-generated artist to hit the top spot on a Billboard chart.

Why it Matters

For fans of all types of music, concern has been growing that AI-generated content could challenge or eventually replace human-created artistic works. Only three years ago, when modern AI programs began to appear, AI demonstrated it could effectively accomplish administrative or technical tasks, but few believed that artistic expressions such as music could only be created by humans. 

The recent successes of AI-generated music challenges that notion. Many who purchased the song Walk My Walk indicated when they heard it and bought it, they didn’t know it was AI-generated.  According to the Turing Test, if a machine exhibits intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human, then the machine is considered to be intelligent itself. While controversial, one interpretation of the Turing Test is that if a machine can fool people into thinking it’s not a machine, then it has passed. 

If AI can generate musical content that humans think is human-generated, that would seem to indicate the AI in question may have passed the Turing Test. Another explanation may be that listeners knew the content might have been AI-generated, but they liked it anyway, so they proceeded to buy and listen to the song in question. Either way, the success of AI-generated music in a real marketplace is a resounding success for the creators of that program.

As Trevor Mogg, the contributing editor of Digital Trends, pointed out, ‘while some might argue that music-creation tools like Suno and Udio open up amazing opportunities for those without any musical training.’ Others are worried that AI-generated content lacks the same emotional depth or beauty of human-created music, but future listeners might be overwhelmed with AI content online.

How it Affects You

Presently, the majority of musical content available for sale or download was created by human artists. But because AI programs can be used by anyone and can generate content quickly, it is possible that in the near future, the amount of content created by AI could equal or even exceed human-made music.