RIAA and IFPI Demand Streamers Label AI-Generated Music Tracks

The trade bodies representing the recorded music industry on both sides of the Atlantic issued a joint call for mandatory AI disclosure labels on streaming platforms, citing listener demand.

RIAA CEO Mitch Glazier and IFPI CEO Frances Moore issued a joint statement pressing streaming services to add AI disclosure labels.
The statement argues fans want to know whether generative AI was used in the music they are served.
No specific streaming platform was named as a target, nor was any timeline proposed.
The push is framed as a consumer transparency measure, not a restriction on AI-generated content itself.
Neither organization has announced regulatory filings or legislative lobbying to back the call.

The RIAA and the IFPI, the two largest trade bodies in recorded music, issued a joint statement this week calling on streaming services to apply mandatory disclosure labels to tracks where generative AI played a role in production.

RIAA CEO Mitch Glazier and IFPI CEO Frances Moore signed the statement together, arguing that listeners have a right to know what they are hearing and how it was made.

The statement does not name Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, or any other platform directly. It sets no compliance deadline and cites no pending legislation.

The framing throughout is consumer transparency rather than a ban or a cap on AI-assisted releases — a distinction the two CEOs did not dwell on at length.

What the joint statement does not address is how, precisely, a streaming platform would verify an AI-use disclosure submitted by a label or an independent artist, or who would audit the label once it was applied.

The two organizations collectively represent labels accounting for the majority of global recorded music revenue. Neither has announced plans to withhold catalog from platforms that decline to comply.

The ask, in other words, is voluntary — issued by the people whose product is already on the shelf.