Music Discovery

Since the start of 2026, the music world has changed
AI Music has now made up at least 28% up to 40% of daily uploads onto these platforms, and a decent chunk belongs to people pushing out AI music solely for profit over any form of creativity
 
With the addition of Spotify "carefully" labeling real musicians who do not use AI Generation, their requirements have left many musicians who don’t use any AI Generation and just below this requirement in the dust.

 
I feel that two additions to both of these platforms will let users / listeners who use these music platforms daily be able to fully understand in a complete transparent way on WHO they are listening to and WHAT they are listening to.
 
If there is enough evidence to show that the artist on this platform is AI Generated and not a real-life musician, it should have an "May Contain AI Generation" label on the artist profile itself, similar to how Spotify now has "Verified By Spotify" so the listener understands that the person behind the songs they are listening to with full transparency.
If there is enough evidence to show that the song on this platform is AI Generated, it should be listed next to the artist name on these platforms with "May Contain AI Generation", so if a listener finds the song on a "Mix" or a "Radio" they are listening to, they are able to view that the song could have AI Generation involved with it.
Considering that both of these platforms have allowed AI Generated Music to be put on the platform and have started to implement a crude method to verify musicians who don’t use AI at all, we need to at least have full transparency that the track was either made by a real human or made by an AI or an Hybrid AI/Human track

Drake to become the first artist in history to simultaneously debut three albums in the top 3 on the Billboard 200 (via @HITSDD)

#1 ICEMAN 475K
#2 MAID OF HONOUR 120.3K
#3 HABIBTI 120K

https://x.com/chartdata/status/2056839458545131993?s=46

When Drake surprise-dropped three albums last week, his friend and frequent producer Gordo was as surprised as everyone else — even though he’d been working on the music for the last year and a half.

“I knew it was going to be two albums,” he tells Rolling Stone on a recent call. “I didn’t know it was going to be three.”

But Drake kept his entire rollout a secret, even from his closest collaborators. That meant that on May 15, when the album trilogy swept the internet, Gordo did what most fans did: He spent time listening through the three projects, which include the anticipated Iceman, the unexpected Habibti, and the left-of-center Maid of Honour, which is where most of Gordo’s songs ended up. The producer/DJ/artist, known for his earlier work on Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind, helped mastermind eight tracks on the LP, including “Hoe Phase,” “Road Trips,” “Outside Tweaking,” “Amazing Shape,” “BBW,” “New Bestie,” “True Bestie,” “Stuck,” and “Goose & the Juice.” (He was also behind “WNBA” on Habibti.)

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But one of the biggest surprises is that even though Gordo shaped up most of the beats with his team, he says Drake ended up going into the production himself and splicing together a lot of the tracks.

“I’m not going to lie to you. As much we worked on them, a lot of these records were done by Drake,” he shares.

“Hoe Phase,” for example, veers into new sonic terrain, morphing into almost an amapiano sound at one point. Gordo says all of that was new to him when he heard the final version.

“We would give him these pieces and then like, the version that I heard on the album was a version I never heard before.”

The same thing happened on [the 2025 $ome $exy $ongs 4 U track] "NOKIA."

“That was a completely different song and then he pieced everything together and I was like, ‘How the fuck did you think of that?’ A lot of the album was like that actually. ‘New Bestie,’ wherever these switch ups are, it’s a lot of him doing these switch-ups. It’s actually pretty crazy,” Gordo says.

I’ll confess the iceman and Drake discussions, particularly around quality versus quantity, got me wondering who did both at the same time the best in modern hip-hop ( let’s say 2000 and beyond)?

I guess you could take this question different ways. Quantity as in volume of music while still maintaining elite quality. Or, popularity and sales without compromising quality.

I’m sure there are many examples, who did it best?

This may be a bit of a cop out answer on my end, but Parabol to Parabola on Lateralus by Tool is my pick. Lyrically and thematically everything from Parabol is carried onto Parabola with thrice the energy.

I’m new to this sub so tell me if I saw or do anything wrong.
So, this might seem like a weird and out of pocket question, but i really need some answers for my speech.
I’m gonna talk about how a lot of music industries nowadays prioritize money instead of quality.
Do yall know any artists/bands that changed their ‘music style’ because of the industry / popularity?
Maybe any albums to compare (one before they became popular, and the other one after they gained attention and popularity?)

ps: I respect all music tastes and bands/artists, I’m not here to talk bad about anyone and anything. Just a genuine question.

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