The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has announced it will no longer include AI-generated music on its official sales and streaming charts, becoming the first body worldwide to adopt new eligibility principles set out by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The move follows debate sparked by an AI-assisted cover of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" reaching Australia's top ten, and reflects the industry's concern not with AI as a creative tool but with services that generate music using artists' work without licensing or authorisation.

Under the IFPI's criteria, adopted by ARIA this week, a recording can only count towards the charts if any generative AI tools used are properly authorised and lawful, avoid manipulation concerns, comply with copyright and personality rights laws, respect the AI service's terms of use, and clearly disclose AI involvement to consumers. Major labels including Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group helped shape the principles, which the IFPI unveiled in late July. ARIA chief executive Annabelle Herd said artists already use AI tools legitimately and charts should evolve accordingly, but distinguished this from music "generated wholesale by services built on artists' recordings" without permission.