AI artist Xania Monet has signed a lucrative deal.
AI has permanently changed the landscape. In the music industry, it is used to create song lyrics or beats. Some have used it further, creating entire artists utilizing the technology. One named Xania Monet is an R&B artist created by Mississippi poet and design studio owner Telisha Jones, who made Monet’s music using her own lyrics as well as live elements and Suno. As AFROTECH™ previously reported, Suno is a leading AI music creation tool, also used by Timbaland, its strategic advisor. The company has also faced a copyright infringement lawsuit in 2024.
Timbaland himself has signed an AI artist, named TaTa, under his AI-focused entertainment company Stage Zero, as mentioned in a separate AFROTECH™ story. So, it should be no surprise that he is a Xania Monet fan.
“You better check out xania monet who’s killing it good music,” Timbaland said in a post promoting his interview with Billboard.
Romel Murphy, a veteran music marketing executive who manages Jones, commented:
“This is real music — it’s real R&B. There’s an artist behind it.”
Xania Monet has even signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Hallwood Media. According to sources, a bidding war reached $3 million. Murphy is also considering publishing deals while planning Xania Monet’s first live performance. The artist has entered the Billboard charts with singles such as “Let Go, Let God” and “How Was I Supposed to Know.” The AI’s catalog has garnered “9.8 million on-demand official U.S. streams,” Billboard said.
“Folded” artist Kehlani Ashley Parrish shared a video on TikTok regarding Xania Monet.
“There is an AI R&B artist who just signed a multimillion-dollar deal and has a top-five R&B album, and the person is doing none of the work… This is so beyond out of our control… Nothing and no one on Earth will ever be able to justify AI to me, especially not AI. In the creative arts in which people have worked hard for, trained for, slept on the floor for, got injuries for, worked for their entire lives, I’m sorry. I don’t respect it.”
https://www.tiktok.com/@kehlani/video/7551494922545712439?lang=en
