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Xania Monet has become the first AI-generated artist to debut on a Billboard airplay chart β and her success is raising questions about what the future could hold for human artists looking to achieve the same feat.
How Was I Supposed to Know? appeared on the Adult R&B Airplay chart at No. 30 on Nov. 1. The song first gained traction online, especially on platforms like TikTok, earning enough streams and purchases to debut on both the R&B Digital Song Sales chart and the Hot R&B Songs chart in September.
Created by Mississippi-based poet and songwriter Telisha βNikkiβ Jones, Xania Monet (pronounced βzuh-NΔ«-ah,β rhyming with Shania) sings Jonesβs lyrics set to R&B music with the help of Suno, an AI music-generating platform.
βXania is an extension of me, so I look at her as a real person,β Jones told CBS Mornings Wednesd
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