Petteri Pyyny
30 Aug 2026 11:30
IFPI Finland has updated the acceptance criteria for Finland's official single and album charts, effectively banning all AI-generated music.
According to the revised rules (PDF, in Finnish), songs and albums that have been entirely created or produced with the help of artificial intelligence will not be accepted on the Official Finnish Chart. The criterion for acceptance on the chart has been set in the rules as follows: "AI-generated recordings are accepted on the Official Finnish Chart only when they are predominantly made by humans and the services used in their creation are properly licensed and legal."
If there is any ambiguity about how songs were created, the chart committee will decide whether or not the song or album is accepted on the chart. If a song or album that is later found to be AI-generated ends up on the charts, it can also be retroactively removed from previous charts.
IFPI Finland also published quite detailed instructions (PDF, in Finnish) regarding the criteria for AI music that can be accepted on the chart.
Particularly interesting is the section of the rules that requires partially AI-generated songs to comply with all existing copyrights. This practically limits even partial use of AI, as only AI services that use officially licensed material can be used to create music that meets the new criteria.
Similar policies have also been made recently elsewhere in the world: the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), representing the Australian music industry, has also decided that AI-generated music will no longer be accepted on Australia's official charts.
Earlier this year, in Sweden, the music industry's interest group came to a similar decision (in Swedish) when an AI-generated song topped the official chart in our neighboring country.