Is there any place for fakes in a genre built on connection and authenticity? By Melinda Newman As artificial intelligence moves further into the music space, how concerned should the country ...

Telisha “Nikki” Jones grew up steeped in gospel, blues and R&B. She sang in a choir and wrote poetry. But becoming a full-time artist was “never a dream of mine,” she said. That all changed in ...

Country music stars including singer Jason Aldean and five-time Grammy-nominated songwriter Tom Douglas have spoken out after "Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust—an artist who was created using artificial ...

This much is known: “Walk My Walk,” a song by an artist called Breaking Rust, entered its second week Wednesday as the top song on Billboard’s country music digital sales chart. After that, everything ...

Breaking Rust is breaking hearts — but he’s totally fake. “Walk My Walk,” an AI-generated track from the AI artist Breaking Rust, has topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart since the ...

A song from AI artist Breaking Rust recently topped Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales Chart, for the week of November 8, 2025. For the uninitiated, the Billboard chart lists the most-downloaded ...

You can't believe everything you hear. This week, I saw dozens of headlines and viral social posts about an AI country song that reached the top of the Billboard country charts. If a song created with ...

Another artificial intelligence artist has reached the top of the music charts. "Walk My Walk," a song from Breaking Rust, a computer-generated blues-country singer, landed at No. 1 on Billboard's ...

"Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust is No. 1 on the 'Billboard' Country Digital Song Sales chart Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and he’s worked at PEOPLE since ...

For the first time ever, a song generated by artificial intelligence has climbed to the top of the charts. This week, a country artist named Breaking Rust landed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Country ...

Who is Breaking Rust? And why are country music fans so upset after they topped a Billboard chart? “Walk My Walk,” by Breaking Rust, hit No. 1 this week on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart ...