Breaking Rust adds to a growing list of artists either found to be or suspected to be fueled by generative AI.

Who is behind the recent surge of AI generated country music? Charley Crockett believes it's the country music business itself. It was last week when a music industry nightmare played out in real time.

An AI-generated song has topped a music chart for the first time in US history. Country artist Breaking Rust rose to the top of Billboard’s country digital song sales chart for a second consecutive week with the single “Walk My Walk”.

The most-downloaded country song in America is written and sung not by a human, but by AI alone. Why it matters: This is twilight-zone stuff, folks. For the No. 1 and No. 3 paid downloads, the artists, the music, the lyrics — the songs — aren't by real people. But real people love them.

“Walk the Walk,” by Breaking Rust, hit No. 1 this week on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, a list of the most-downloaded tracks in the U.S. The artist sounds like an outlaw country singer with “mud on my jeans” and “a worn-out hat and a six-string strap.”

Latest survey shows people struggle to hear the difference between music generated by AI and that created by humans.

As AI artists Breaking Rust and Cain Walker dominate a country music chart, industry players react to the phenomenon and discuss what it could mean.