09/17/2026
🚨 ARTISTS, MANAGERS & RADIO PROMOTERS — PLEASE READ 🚨
AI CONTENT DETECTION & TIRC CHART ELIGIBILITY
This post is not an attack on AI. It’s about education. We want artists and industry professionals to understand our policy BEFORE a single is submitted, because AI detection issues can happen—and once a recording fails our screening requirements, our policy applies.
If you are submitting a single to the Texas Internet Radio Chart (TIRC), it is your responsibility—or your radio promoter’s responsibility—to make sure the final recording being submitted complies with TIRC's AI-content policy.
🤖 TIRC USES 3 DIFFERENT AI MUSIC DETECTION SERVICES
Every single submitted for TIRC consideration is screened using three separate AI detection services.
Our policy allows up to a 15% AI-content detection threshold.
We intentionally allow this margin because AI-detection technology isn't perfect, and we recognize that modern production, metadata, and digital assets can sometimes produce unexpected results.
If TWO of the THREE detection services flag your submitted recording at MORE THAN 15% AI content, we will NOT accept the single for TIRC charting.
No exceptions.
⚠️ WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW?
We are currently investigating an instance where we believe an artist's use of an AI program to create video content for social media may have contributed to an AI-content detection issue involving their music.
We have not determined conclusively that this was the cause, but the situation highlights something every artist, manager, producer, and promoter should be thinking about.
Be careful what you upload to AI programs.
Your master.
Your vocals.
Your stems.
Your unreleased songs.
Your photographs.
Your likeness.
Your intellectual property.
Before uploading any of those assets to an AI platform, READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Pay particular attention to language concerning licensing, ownership, reproduction, distribution, training, sublicensing, and the rights you grant the platform when you upload your material.
Don't automatically click "I Agree."
Know what you're agreeing to and understand what rights you may be granting.
🎵 OUR BEST-PRACTICE RECOMMENDATION
Before submitting your radio single to TIRC—or any chart that conducts AI screening—we strongly recommend checking the FINAL master you intend to submit.
And submit your music correctly:
✅ Final radio-ready master
✅ Proper artist and title metadata
✅ Correct ISRC
✅ Officially released version
✅ Available through the artist's official Spotify or Apple Music profile
If you're using a radio promoter, talk with your promoter about AI screening before submission.
It's much easier to identify a potential issue before submitting a single than after it has been flagged.
🎨 WHAT ABOUT AI ARTWORK, ONE-SHEETS & PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS?
We're not trying to police whether you used AI to help create your:
• Single artwork
• One-sheet
• Social graphics
• Promotional materials
• Marketing copy
• Other non-musical assets
Our concern is the MUSIC being submitted for chart eligibility.
In fact, part of the reason TIRC established a 15% threshold rather than requiring an absolute zero reading is to provide reasonable tolerance for unexpected detection results.
⭐ WHY DOES TIRC HAVE THIS POLICY?
TIRC was created to serve the Texas Music Scene and the artists actively building careers within it.
We exist to support:
🎸 Real songwriters
🎤 Real artists
🥁 Real musicians
🎶 Career artists actively doing the work
We are committed to fairness, transparency, and protecting the integrity of the chart.
Technology is changing incredibly fast, and our responsibility is to establish a clear standard and apply that standard consistently.
📋 THE TIRC POLICY — PERIOD.
Three AI Music Detection Services are used.
Two out of three detect MORE THAN 15% AI content = NOT ELIGIBLE.
Submission does not guarantee acceptance.
The same policy applies to everyone.
No favoritism. No special treatment. No exceptions.
Again, we're not posting this to attack AI, an artist, a producer, a promoter, or an AI company.
WE'RE POSTING IT TO EDUCATE YOU—BECAUSE IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU.
AI is moving faster than almost any technology we've encountered in the modern music business.
Artists need to start treating decisions involving AI with the same seriousness they give their masters, copyrights, publishing, distribution, licensing, and other intellectual-property agreements.
Read the fine print. Ask questions. Protect your music. Protect your rights. Protect your career.
— Mark Sebby
Chart Editor
Texas Internet Radio Chart (TIRC)
📧 [email protected]
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