A so-called “country song” created entirely through artificial intelligence just topped Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart — and it’s got the music world furious. The track, Walk My Walk by an AI act called Breaking Rust, racked up over 3 million Spotify streams in less than a month.
Billboard has confirmed that Breaking Rust isn’t even human — it’s a product of code. And this isn’t a one-off. At least half a dozen AI acts have charted in recent months, signaling a troubling new era where record execs and tech billionaires would rather invest in algorithms than authentic artistry.
This is the woke corporate dream come true: soulless, manufactured “artists” that don’t talk back, don’t have opinions, don’t ask for fair pay, and never take a political stance that might upset the establishment. The same industry that censors conservatives and cancels truth-telling musicians is now promoting fake artists who never lived a day of the stories they sing about.
Entertainment reporter Kelley L. Carter called it an “experiment” to see how far AI can go in art — but to many real musicians, it’s the endgame of greed. Why pay a songwriter when you can feed an algorithm the blood, sweat, and tears of decades of country music history — and then cash the check?
The AI apocalypse in music isn’t about creativity or progress. It’s about control. It’s about the woke elite turning music into data, replacing soul with software, and erasing the very thing that makes country music what it is — real stories from real people.
The human voice built this industry. And no machine can walk that walk.
