Lucas Woodland, frontman of the Welsh post-hardcore band Holding Absence, recently made a disturbing discovery on Spotify: an AI-generated act that cites his band as an influence has more monthly listeners than their human inspiration. Holding Absence has been around for a decade; the AI “band,” Bleeding Verse, only launched on Spotify in late July. “It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting,” Woodland wroteon X. “Most importantly – it’s a wake up call. Oppose AI music, or bands like us stop existing.”
Bleeding Verse, which says in its Spotify bio that it uses “human lyrics, turned into songs with AI” has accumulated 897,349 monthly listeners in just two months. Holding Absence, four actual humans who have been touring the world and releasing music since 2015 (though its current incarnation with Woodland didn’t begin until the following year), currently have 847,638 monthly listeners.
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