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.
