The SIQA AI Music Top 100 and Top 100 AI Covers debut January 30, 2026, creating a new standardized way to track and recognize trending AI-generated music.

As AI-generated music continues to gain new listeners across streaming, video, and social platforms, the industry lacks a trusted framework to recognize success, set ethical boundaries, and bring clarity to what’s actually resonating with audiences. As debates around chart eligibility, disclosure, and fairness intensify, both music industry leaders and AI music creators have called for clearer standards and recognition. The Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA) was established to fill that gap by creating structure, clarity, legitimacy, and transparency in this emerging creative category.

As a first step in this process, SIQA is launching the SIQA AI Music Top 100 and Top 100 AI Covers, weekly charts built specifically for AI-generated music. These charts are designed to track and assess the top AI songs resonating throughout today’s music landscape, providing a dedicated framework for measuring AI music on its own terms.

The SIQA charts will spotlight AI-created tracks gaining meaningful traction across streaming, video, and social platforms, along with airplay. AI music creators will be able to submit eligible releases through SIQA’s submission system, similar to how artists submit work for traditional chart consideration.

To power these charts, SIQA uses consistent guidelines to determine what qualifies as AI-generated music, verifying and evaluating each entry through a proprietary in-house review process designed to support transparency, integrity, and ethical standards. By establishing dedicated standards and visibility for AI-generated music, SIQA seeks to reduce confusion across the broader music industry, allowing this new category to be evaluated on its own terms alongside existing chart systems. Rather than positioning AI music as a replacement for traditional artistry, SIQA recognizes it as a distinct creative medium that warrants its own standards and systems of recognition. At the same time, SIQA believes both human-led and AI-assisted works deserve space to be recognized and celebrated for what they are.

SIQA has also established clear eligibility and ethics standards to ensure integrity in chart participation. Chart-eligible tracks must be transparently created, properly attributed, and must not use cloned or simulated voices of real public figures, living or deceased, or misrepresent the identity of artists or performers.

Beyond weekly rankings, SIQA’s charting framework is designed to build a growing, structured data reference for how this category evolves as the ecosystem matures.

As licensing frameworks, attribution technology, and ethical standards continue to develop industry wide, AI-generated music is emerging as a distinct creative category. SIQA exists to support that evolution responsibly, recognizing innovation while respecting human artists and audiences alike.

Charts are only the beginning. SIQA plans to roll out several initiatives building out a broader ecosystem that will support both traditional artists and the AI music creator community to define this new music-tech realm through education, research, partnerships, and cultural initiatives focused on ethical AI music creation, collaboration, and literacy.

Founded independently by artists, technologists, designers, and developers, SIQA brings together deep technical knowledge with a creator-first perspective. The organization operates independently of major music labels, DSPs, and AI companies, positioning itself as a neutral, standards-focused institution for one of the fastest-developing parts of the music business. 

The SIQA charts will debut on January 30, 2026.

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About The Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA)

Founded in 2025, The Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA) is a standards-driven organization focused on advancing ethical, transparent, and responsible AI-generated music. By combining data analysis, cultural insight, and creator advocacy, SIQA provides new systems for recognizing and contextualizing AI-powered musical works. Its inaugural initiatives include the SIQA AI Music Top 100 and Top 100 AI Covers, breakout weekly charts dedicated exclusively to AI-created music.