Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation
The folk-pop creation is currently top of the Spotify playlist of Sweden's most popular songs
Backed by a finger-picked acoustic guitar melody, it weaves a tale of late-night heartbreak, broken promises and shattered hopes.
Called I know, You're Not Mine - Jag vet, du är inte min - it is currently top of the Spotify playlist of Sweden's most popular songs. But the singer is a digital creation and the country's music industry body has blocked the track from its official chart listings.
A song which has been streamed millions of times in Sweden has been banned from that country's music charts because it was created by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
"Your steps in the night, I hear them go," sings the artist known as Jacub in a haunting voice.
"We stood in the rain at your gate and ran out and everything went fast. Now I know you are not mine, your promises came to nothing."
It quickly became Sweden's biggest song of 2026 so far, amassing more than five million Spotify streams in a matter of weeks, putting it at the top of the platform's Swedish Top 50.
However, journalists who began investigating Jacub's identity found that the artist had no significant social media profile, media appearances or tour dates.
When investigative journalist Emanuel Karlsten began digging deeper, he found that the song was registered to a group of executives connected to Stellar Music, a music publishing and marketing firm based in Denmark. Two of the individuals work in Stellar's AI department.
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