ARIA Charts set eligibility rules for recordings made with AI

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has today confirmed how the global principles on recordings developed using generative artificial intelligence set out by IFPI will apply to the ARIA Charts.

Wholly AI-generated tracks will not be eligible for the ARIA Charts. Recordings that use generative AI in a supporting role remain eligible.

The ARIA Charts Code of Practice has been updated and changes will take effect from the ARIA Chart dated Monday, 31 August 2026, published Friday, 28 August.

Under the updated Code, a recording developed using generative AI is eligible only where:

• It is substantially human made

• It raises no stream or chart manipulation concerns
  
  

To distinguish AI-generated recordings from AI-assisted ones, ARIA will apply the definitions in the labelling standard announced by the global music community on 10 July.

ARIA CEO, Annabelle Herd, said: “These changes reflect our intent to remain dynamic and promote the human nature of artistry in what is – to say the least – a rapidly developing space. Artists already use AI tools in their work, the Charts can and should evolve to keep room for that, but music generated wholesale by services built on artists’ recordings is a different matter.

“The ARIA Charts will always remain a transparent measurement of the music Australia consumes, but a chart that rewards unlicensed AI output would undercut the very basis of the recorded music we exist to represent. We have worked closely with IFPI and a number of international industry bodies to understand how to best implement these changes in a way that is both clear and future-facing.

“This gives everyone who releases music in Australia a clear rule to work to. We call on all parties who have a role in deciding the music played and promoted to Australian audiences, particularly radio, to support human artistry and implement similar changes across their own codes.”

Where ARIA determines a recording is ineligible, it may decline to accept it for survey, exclude or remove it from the Charts prospectively or retrospectively, adjust Chart positions, withdraw accreditations, and revoke or request the return of any ARIA #1 Award. An ineligible recording will also not be eligible for an ARIA Award.

ARIA has updated the disputes process in the Code so artists and their representatives can contest an exclusion and provide evidence supporting a recording’s eligibility. The Code already required those supplying ARIA with chart data to act lawfully and already allowed ARIA to exclude sales or streams that cannot be verified. Both provisions have been strengthened.

ARIA will keep the Code under review as AI policy and technology develop.

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