https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Tue, 12 May 2026 05:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/05/tencent-music-qq-music-ai-songs-royalty-model https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/05/tencent-music-qq-music-ai-songs-royalty-model Tencent Music says more than 10 million people use its AI music production platform, and its tools can publish a generated song to QQ Music in one click. On its Q4 call it said songs made wholly by AI get a different royalty-sharing model, while AI-assisted songs sung by humans stay on the traditional one. We haven't seen a big Western streaming service draw that line in public. Tue, 12 May 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aitencent-musicqq-musicroyaltieschinastreaming