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“我们希望艺术家同意将他们的作品加入这个目录，这样人们就可以基于他们的艺术进行翻唱和混音。”联席 CEO Alex Norström 补充道，“显然，我们也希望给予他们署名。同时最重要的是……我们不仅获得了许可并给予署名，我们还推动了对此的报酬。所以，实际上，我们正在谈论参与即将到来的互动音乐人工智能趋势的第一种合法方式。”
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During its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Spotify again teased the upcoming release of a new product that will allow music fans to leverage AI to make covers and remixes of artists’ music, with the artists’ consent.
The company also announced that Merlin,：https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-08-04/merlin-spotify-licensing-agreements-fan-made-covers-remixes/ a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has now joined Universal Music Group (UMG) on the new AI music effort. The deal brings more than 30,000 labels from Merlin’s network to the product, which will allow fan-made covers and remixes by artists who agree to participate.
Spotify has positioned its AI music product as being significantly different from the more controversial AI music startups that have been used to create fully artificial songs. Instead, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström told investors on Tuesday’s call that the company’s AI music product will be about “real artists, not fake artists.”
“We want artists to be consenting [to add] their work into this catalog, so people can play around with covers and remixes based on their art,” added co-CEO Alex Norström. “We also obviously want to give them credit. And last but not least…we not only have the consent and give credit, but we also drive the compensation for this. So, really, we’re talking about the first legal way to partake in this AI tailwind that we see coming for interactive music,” he said.
AI music has flooded streaming services. Music streamer Deezer recently noted that more than 50% of daily track uploads were generated with AI：https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/music-streamer-deezer-says-more-than-50-of-daily-uploads-are-ai-generated/, up from 10% in January 2025.
The company told investors that a research preview of the fan remix and covers product would initially be made available to a subset of users. Spotify also noted that it would not require a full music catalog to get started. The company did not say when the preview would arrive.
The new tool will launch as a paid add-on, creating an additional revenue stream for artists, Spotify previously said.
“Our remix and covers I think is an incredibly exciting product again because there is no one else that can really do this,” Söderström said. “Normal generative music will happen with or without us. This product will not happen without us, and it needs to exist so that existing artists can can participate in this.”
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Aioga 编辑摘要
Spotify 披露将推出供乐迷制作 AI 翻唱与混音的产品，参与须获艺术家同意。独立音乐授权伙伴 Merlin 已加入，覆盖其网络中的超过 3 万家厂牌。
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