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I Created An AI Album And Got 38,562 Streams on Spotify and YouTube

8 min readMay 9, 2023

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Have you ever dreamed of getting your music onto Spotify? Maybe you thought about starting a band in your garage, recording a hit single, and soaring to the top of the charts?

AI might soon make that process a lot easier. I’m now officially an artist with tens of thousands of streams on YouTube Music and Spotify. But getting there didn’t require using my mad ukulele skills, or actually any musical talent at all.

Instead, all I had to do was push a button and let AI do the rest.

That’s because over the past two years, I’ve been testing the AI music generation platform Boomy. Boomy lets you automatically generate a nearly limitless number of songs and post them on leading platforms like Spotify and YouTube Music.

Since I started my experiment in 2021, my AI-generated songs have received a total of 38,562 streams. Here’s a look at the world of AI music generation — and some specific data on how much Boomy paid me for over 30,000 streams.

How Boomy Works

I originally discovered Boomy when I was researching interesting tools for AI creation. The service specifically advertises itself as a way for…

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Thomas Smith
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Written by Thomas Smith

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