Suno saw downloads of its AI music app quadruple week over week in the U.S. in April, briefly making it the most downloaded music app on the U.S. and UK Apple App Stores, driven by a viral TikTok trend, according to Rolling Stone. The “text to song” trend has users turning their text histories with friends, family, and exes into the lyrics of AI-generated songs, often tagged #texttosong. One creator, Illinois travel agent Justice Washam, built a song from her 11-year-old daughter's texts in an Avril Lavigne style, reached 9.8M views, gained nearly 200,000 followers, and earned around $4,000 in a month from longer-form TikTok ad revenue. Suno's product team built a feature in about a week that partly automates converting text screenshots into songs. The trend arrives as Suno fights a legal battle with two of the three major record labels over how its model was trained. Some creators have already posted their songs to Spotify despite open copyright questions.
