Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal
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Australia’s new chart rule—no wholly AI-generated tracks, human-written and human-sung only—formalizes a split between “commercially countable” and “everything else” in music. Labels, platforms, and tools will now need explicit metadata and compliance flows around AI involvement if they want chart-eligible releases.
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