Spotify has become the world’s largest music streaming platform, with over 696 million users worldwide. For many of us, it’s where we discover new artists, build playlists, and connect with music on a personal level. But recently, something changed — and most listeners had no idea.

In 2024, a band called The Velvet Sundown exploded onto Spotify’s playlists and racked up millions of streams. But it wasn’t a real band. It was an AI-generated music project — songs entirely composed, sung, and distributed using artificial intelligence. No humans, no bandmates, no artists — just code.

Spotify allowed this music to be featured alongside human-created content, without any label or warning. And that’s the problem.

While some AI tools can support musicians creatively — like restoring old vocals or remixing sounds — Spotify's failure to differentiate AI-generated songs from human ones misleads users and risks displacing real artists struggling to be heard. Unlike YouTube or Deezer, Spotify still refuses to label AI-created content, even though such music is flooding its platform and, in some cases, being promoted by Spotify’s own algorithms.

Artists deserve transparency. Listeners deserve to know what — and who — they’re listening to. Without clear labeling, we risk a future where fake artists dominate playlists, algorithmic manipulation erodes trust, and genuine creators lose income and exposure to machine-made songs optimized for profit, not passion.

We’re not saying AI music has no place — but it must be clearly labeled. Like food labels or sponsored posts, this is about informed choice.

We urge Spotify to follow the lead of other tech platforms and implement a transparent, platform-wide labeling system for all AI-generated music and artists. Let’s keep music honest, creative, and human.

If you believe real artists matter and transparency should be the default — not the exception — sign this petition.