News Summary

• SIQA has analysed some of the data from Q1 this year, based on 1,551 submissions of tracks to its rankings.
• The report also found that 90.4% of the artists submitting tracks were using Suno, while 19.5% said they were using ChatGPT for lyrics and songwriting tasks.
• 31.7% of tracks submitted to SIQA are categorised as R&B/Soul, the biggest genre in the sample by a distance – ahead of pop (12.4%), hip-hop/rap (10.9%) and country (9.9%).
• Even gospel (8.7%) beats Electronic/EDM (5.5%) – a poke in the eye for anyone who thinks most AI-generated music is the latter.