Music generation
The category leader for full songs with vocals from a text prompt, now with its own generative DAW.
Suno is the most widely used AI song generator, turning a prompt or your own lyrics into complete tracks with vocals, arrangement and structure. Paid plans unlock its newest models (v5 and v5.5), up to 12-stem exports, audio uploads you can build on, and Personas, which keep a consistent voice and style across songs. The top tier adds Suno Studio, a generative multitrack editor with MIDI export that pushes it from a toy toward a production tool. Commercial rights start at the Pro tier; free songs can't be monetized, and monthly credits don't roll over. Suno has spent the last two years at the center of the label copyright fight, which shapes how its licensing and output rights keep changing.
A different training set changes what a model knows, and many users say they can no longer get the weird, experimental results they built their workflows around. If that's you, all is not lost, but V6 asks for a new way of working.
Suno pushed a round of MIDI improvements to Suno Studio on Thursday, announced on the company's Discord. MIDI-to-audio transcription now draws on stronger musical context and stays closer to the source, and audio stems generated from MIDI clips via the chat bar are more accurate.
If you’ve used Suno and felt like you were rolling the dice every time you hit generate, MILO is how you stop doing that.
I took three Suno -generated tracks — Hard Rock, Country, and Soul — and ran them through five commercial AI mastering services:
One of the quiet truths about AI music is that listening matters just as much as prompting. Suno has rolled out a low-key but meaningful new feature called Listen for Credits, tucked inside the platform’s Listen and Rank page. On the surface, it’s simple: listen to short song clips, give feedback, earn credits. But underneath, it’s a signal of where AI music platforms are headed next, toward tighter feedback loops between creators, listeners, and the models themselves. If you’ve ever hit your credit limit mid-idea (or just don’t feel like buying another pack), this is one of the easiest ways to extend your creative runway.
If you’ve been using Suno for more than a few weeks, there’s a good chance your workspace already feels out of control. Suno makes it easy to create music quickly. It does not automatically help you stay organized. That part is still on you. The good news: you don’t need complicated systems, spreadsheets, or external tools. You just need a few habits that match how Suno actually works.
If you’re making music with AI, one question keeps coming up: “If I pay for the tool, do I own the song?” The answer is simpler — and more uncomfortable — than most people expect. Being allowed to monetize a track and actually owning the copyright are not the same thing. Platforms like Suno can grant commercial rights under their Terms of Service, but they can’t override how U.S. copyright law defines authorship. That still comes down to human control. According to the U.S. Copyright Office, works that are purely AI-generated aren’t copyrightable on their own. Ownership depends on what the human contributes — not the prompt, not the subscription tier, but the creative decisions that shape the final work. That distinction is easy to miss, and increasingly hard to ignore.
Discover the new era of AI music streaming platforms — Souna, BitzAudio, and KIVIO — each offering artists and listeners a dedicated home for AI-native tracks, uploads, discovery tools, and community features. Learn what each platform does, how they work, and why AI-generated music finally has spaces built just for it.
Looking to make music with AI — for free? Here are our favorite platforms that let you generate full songs, vocals, or instrumentals without paying a dime. From the names you know to those you don’t, these tools prove you don’t need a studio to sound pro.
Suno and Udio are the ‘Big Two’ of AI Music. How do you pick which one to use? We look at the differences across the board so you can make the best choice.
Not all “AI music” is the same. Some tools write full songs, others just remix, master, or clone voices. Here’s how to tell which ones truly use AI — and which just sound like they do.
Creating your first AI song is easier than you think. Choose a platform, type a prompt, refine your track, and publish it to the community. In just minutes, you can export professional-sounding audio, grab your shareable link, and let the world hear your music.
Former Ticketmaster exec tapped to connect song creation platform to live experiences.
Tesla/X/SpaceX CEO says the song-making tool will be part of the company's future offerings — but no telling when it'll go live or how it will work.
Suno now allows users to create Albums — a clear step towards making the platform a place to not just make music, but consume it as well.
While ElevenLabs has gone from voice to song generation with ElevenMusic, Suno's Speech product now takes the platform into ElevenLabs' home turf of voice generation.
Sound designers and SFX libraries launched the Professional Sound Alliance to push for consent and payment when their work trains AI, even as its founding libraries already license to companies like Sony AI.
Suno launched a blog series teaching production fundamentals, starting with compression for Studio 2.0's built-in effects, with EQ next, as it pushes subscribers from prompting toward mixing.
Sony Music became the first music company in ARIAM, a cross-industry AI policy coalition, giving its licensing-first stance a wider coalition just five days after suing Suno a second time.
Universal Music Group and Sony Music sued Suno again today in Boston federal court, making a bold claim about how not even V6 is free from copyright issues.
Universal Music Group, Capitol Records, and Capitol CMG filed suit against DistroKid, Kid Distro Holdings, and DK Holdco on September 15 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
ElevenMusic pushed out Music v2.5 today, its new default model for prompted and reference generation, alongside two policy changes that matter more than the model bump itself: a downloads feature and a rights statement.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration Wednesday
On Sept. 9, Suno rolled out v6, the company's newest generation of music-generation models, in an announcement co-signed by partnerships with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe.
Suno announced a global partnership with Believe and its self-releasing platform TuneCore on Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Suno posted a cryptic Instagram reel Friday — a swirling, molten-orange "V6" visual — captioned only: "Soon enough, you'll hear it all." No date, no name, no specifics.
Jason Isbell has filed a class action lawsuit against Suno , joined by David Lowery , Guy Forsyth and Ed Calle , arguing the AI platform violates their rights of…
SOCAN , the Canadian performing rights organization representing songwriters, composers, and publishers, filed suit against Suno on Sept.
R&B/pop singer Jason Derulo announced on TikTok that an "official version" of the SIQA chart-topping single "Let Me Be" drops Sept.
Two platforms just drew the same border from opposite sides.
Academy Award-winning actor and musician Jeff Bridges introduced comedian Theo Von to AI music platform Suno during a recent episode of Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend…
AI:Underground is helping bring AI music creators into a University of Miami classroom.
Amanda Magellan was announced the winner of SSC8 on Saturday, May 9, concluding an 8-week competition cycle that featured nearly 500 songs representing more than 50…
Suno triggered community backlash this week after quietly removing visible credit counts from the main creation interface, forcing users to check usage through account…
With just about an hour left into AI:Underground’s 24-hour livesteam, the chat exploded.
Latest version pushes AI music toward identity with voices, custom models, and taste training.
Detour Soundscape's “Half A Wife” takes Viewer's Choice at Week 38 of Fresh Friday Festival, and “Waxing Moon,” from SpinCreations and Morrwyn of House Elarokh, is the Staff Pick.
A year ago, if you wanted to find the center of gravity in AI music, you'd have looked at a Discord server or a Suno leaderboard. More and more, you'd look at a competition bracket instead.
Every Friday, for 35 straight weeks, the AI:Underground community has gathered for a listening party — four hours of the best music in the AI scene, played live over Discord and Twitch .
Amanda Magellan didn't think she was going to win SSC8 . Her aspirations only reached as high as reaching the finals (the Top 40).
Kevin Griffin had just stepped off a Grammy panel in Nashville — the topic, as it so often is now, was AI and songwriting — when Zinstrel caught up with him.
