South Korea’s latest chart sensation has a secret: the singer isn’t human

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The K-pop act’s sudden rise has exposed brewing copyright rows and prompted fresh debate over the future of AI-generated music

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A little-known South Korean music act has climbed the charts with a viral hit that has caught listeners off guard – not just for its sudden popularity, but because its vocals were generated entirely by artificial intelligence.

Meomuru’s single, “Have You Become the Adult You Dreamed Of?”, climbed to No 2 on Melon’s Top 100 – South Korea’s flagship streaming chart – earlier this week. The track’s popularity has turned Meomuru into one of the country’s most-talked-about acts.

The song was created by Glorywave, a songwriting and production duo comprising Lee Yong-seok and Choi Sung-hyuk, who have worked with South Korean artists for more than a decade.

The pair developed the concept, wrote the lyrics and used the generative AI music platform Suno to produce the melody, arrangement and vocal track. They then edited, mixed and mastered the final cut themselves.

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