In the opinion of many, Suno is one of the two most impressive music-generating artificial intelligence applications available to the public today (the other being Udio).
In the eight months since it was launched to the public, the AI tool that creates full-length songs based on spoken prompts has attracted the likes of rolling stonesand attracted significant amounts of investor cash, including a recent Series B round that attracted $125 millionthe company is reportedly valued at US$500 million.
Within the music industry, there are questions about the content used to train the Suno algorithm, with some suspecting it included unauthorized copyrighted music.
In a recent article from MBW, Ed Newton-Rexformer Vice President of Audio Stable artificial intelligence and founder of the Music Artificial Intelligence Certification Nonprofit well trainedForensic analysis was conducted to show that Suno’s artificial intelligence was indeed trained on copyrighted material, which may include music by Eminem, Ed Sheeran and ABBA.
One of Suno’s early investors – Antonio Rodriguez Venture capital company Jingwei partners – all but admitted that Suno had in fact been trained on copyrighted material without permission.
Still, regardless of the legal issues the AI company may or may not face in the future, its AI technology and music production platform are moving forward. Sunuo recently said 12 million People are already using the platform less than a year after its launch.
Now the company is taking a major step toward building community and making music creation on its platform commercially viable for its users: It’s launching a program to pay the most popular music creators.
In plans announced on its blog late last month, Suno said it planned to pay $ 1,000,000 Open to creators who create music on its platform from now until the end of the year, starting with part $100,000 pay to 500 The highest-charting tracks publicly released on the Suno platform in June.
“Summer of Suno” project will pay off $10,000 to the highest ranked track, and $7,500 To the second ranked track. The amount is gradually reduced until the payment $500 For tracks ranked between 6th and 50th, $250 For tracks 51 to 100, and 100 dollars Tracks ranked between 101 and 500.
The Suno co-founder said the track’s ranking will be determined “based on popularity measured by a combination of plays, likes and shares.” Keenan Freiberg wrote on the company blog.
There are some caveats. First, creators must be over 18 years old; second, payments can only be made to creators in 54 countries around the world. Residents of most developed countries are eligible, but Japan is notably excluded.
The most populous countries excluded include India, China, Pakistan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, Ethiopia and the Philippines. Suno provides a complete list of eligible countries on a Google spreadsheet available here.
In addition, payments can only be made through PayPal. “If you are unable to accept payments through PayPal, we will not be able to issue your payment and the money will be returned to the pool for future activities,” Suno said.
In the end, only one song per creator is eligible to be paid because “we want to reach as many creators as possible,” Suno said.
In other words, don’t expect to make a living making music on the Suno platform just yet.
Suno encourages creators vying for Suno Summer prizes to share their music creations on social media, specifically mentioning X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and TikTok.
The company’s intentions are clear: to incentivize users of its platform to promote their music as much as possible, and by extension, Suno itself.
The platform is increasingly marketing itself as a community rather than just a music creation tool.
“We see friends exchanging memes, couples exchanging love songs, and streamers co-writing songs with stadium-sized audiences,” Freberg wrote.
“Some creators write songs for others, while others play, explore and create songs for themselves.”global music business
