Public voting is now open to help select the winner of the AI Song Contest 2025.
The ten songs competing to be the winner of the sixth edition of the AI Song Contest have been announced. Voting is now underway for the public to help determine 50% of the results of this years competition.
The ten finalists are:
- KicKRaTT & KaOzBrD – “Solarium”
- GENEALOGY – “REVOLUTION”
- ~marts – “Reykjavik Sunburn (Take 1 Redux)”
- BRNRT Collective – “Culocodo”
- HEL9000 – “DISTANT | ACCESS | MEMORY”
- DJ Swami – “Come into My World”
- Nikki – “Thanks for being lifeless (Music for gamers)”
- Auditory nerve – “Silent N[AI]ght”
- GANTASMO – “Machine a Trois”
- Dadabots – “MF U Up”
Among the finalists are three entrants that also made it through to the final of the 2024 competition in Zurich. DJ Swami placed 2nd, Dadabots were 3rd and HEL9000 5th in the final in 2024, with Dadabots being the juries favourite in last years competition. You can listen to the finalists and vote for your favourite here.
The twenty-five judges who will determine the other 50% of the results are:
- Jordan Rudess – Dream Theatre
- Portrait XO – Artist
- LJ Rich – Artist
- Alan Lau – Vice Chair of the M+ Museum
- Julian Lenz – Lemonade
- Riley Knapp – Ripx Daw
- Sandira Blas – Fotografiska Berlin
- Max Shafer – Just 4 Noise
- Holly – Artist
- Sydney Schelvis – Melkweg
- Dorien Herremans – Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Anja Volk – Professor of Music Information Computing – Utrecht University
- Seiya Matsumiya – Black Cat White Cat Music:
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- Katerina Kosta – Head of AI at Hook
- Alexander Rehding – Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University
- Bérnika – Onda Corta – Winner of the AI Song Contest 2024
- Andrés – Onda Corta – Winner of the AI Song Contest 2024
- Atser Damsma – Associate Lecturer at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of the Arts.
- Ben Camp – Berklee College of Music
- Joe Bennet – Berklee College of Music
- Rujing Stacy Huang – Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Board Member Stichting AI Song Contest
- Marcel Vélez Vásquez – University of Amsterdam
- Anna Hunag – Assistant Professor MIT, Board Member Stichting AI Song Contest
- Ryan Groves – CTO at Infinite Album, Board Member Stichting AI Song Contest
Nineteen other entries also competed in the Semi-Final but were not chosen by the jury to go through to the Final of the competition. You can listen to the Semi-Finalists here.
The results of the AI Song Contest 2025 will be revealed on November 16 at an Awards Show in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The AI Song Contest was first held in 2020 and has grown in popularity since. The contest is the first which encourages songs to be written by artificial intelligence. The songs are then evaluated by a jury on the use of AI in the song, while the public assesses the songs in an online vote. The contest has been won to date by entries from Australia, Chile, the Netherlands, Thailand and the United States.
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