By 2030, an AI-made song by a dead musician could top the charts
VraserX · x · 2026-07-21
The post predicts that by 2030, a dead musician could top the charts with a song they never actually recorded. The attached image reinforces the point with the headline **“The Posthumous Hit.”** The core issue is not just AI music generation, but the fight over who owns a person’s likeness and creative legacy after death, and how far posthumous commercialization could go.
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