2025 Awards
A formal record from The Academy of AI Music, the first organization leading recognition for AI music excellence and honoring the works, artists, and creative teams moving the field into public culture.
Recording of the year
Xania Monet - "How Was I Supposed to Know?"
Nominees
Winner
Xania Monet — "How Was I Supposed to Know?"
Created by Mississippi poet Telisha Jones, who writes the lyrics and generates the music through Suno, the recording became the first AI-driven track to earn enough radio airplay to debut on a Billboard airplay chart, topped R&B Digital Song Sales, and drew roughly 17 million streams in two months. It pairs genuine human authorship with a fully disclosed AI performance, and its success — followed by a reported $3 million label deal with Hallwood Media — pushed the mainstream industry to treat AI music as a commercial and artistic reality.
Breaking Rust — "Walk My Walk"
Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor's AI country project; the first AI country track to top Billboard Country Digital Song Sales.
Vinih Pray — “A Million Colors”
A Suno-made pop track, human-directed by an independent creator, that broke into the TikTok Viral 50.
HAVEN. — “I Run” (feat. Kaitlin Aragon)
The consent-cleared re-recording — human vocals over AI production — with ~17.7M Spotify streams.
TaTa — “Glitch x Pulse” (Pop)
Timbaland's Stage Zero debut; human-led “A-Pop” built from his own demos and lyrics.