“A Million Colors” by Vinih Pray has become the first-known AI-generated song to hit the TikTok charts. Currently sitting at No. 44 on the TikTok Viral 50, the doo-wop inspired song was generated using the popular AI music platform Suno, the company has confirmed.
While this marks the first AI-generated song to hit the TikTok charts, there was one previous song on the TikTok charts that was human-made but contained an AI-generated sample. In the summer of 2024, “U My Everything” by Sexyy Redd, featuring Drake — which sampled the AI-generated song “BBL Drizzy” — peaked at No. 2 on the TikTok Top 50, but the most common sound clip used from “U My Everything” did not feature that sample.
With over 371,700 creates on TikTok, 819,745 streams on Spotify, 161,000 views on YouTube, “A Million Colors” sounds so realistic that it has fooled a number of unsuspecting users. One of the most popular celebrities on the platform, Kylie Jenner, recently posted a makeup tutorial with the AI-generated song in the background, earning her 1.5 million likes.
Some TikTok users, however, have started catching on. On “A Million Colors” sound page, a number of videos are being made by users to call out its use of AI. This likely traces back to a popular video by @americangorls, who wrote in a post on May 10 “this song having hundreds of thousands of uses and I haven’t seen anyone talking ab the fact that this is 100% ai is freaking me out a little. am i crazy[?]”
According to his Spotify bio, Pray, the artist who posted “A Million Colors,” was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is “making waves in the Brazilian music scene,” and that “in addition to his solo career, [Pray] has collaborated with several renowned artists,” although it does not state who those artists are. He releases music at a quick pace — since he started posting to the page in April 2024, Pray has released over 110 songs to Spotify and other platforms in a variety of languages, including Korean, English, Portuguese and Mandarin. Most songs contain different voices, and it is unclear if any are using Pray’s own voice. It is also unclear how many of these songs are AI-generated or human-made.
Pray and TikTok have not replied to Billboard’s request for comment.
With “A Million Colors,” Pray positions himself among a growing class of AI music content creators on the internet. King Willonius, the artist who used Udio to generate “BBL Drizzy” posts a number of AI-generated parody songs to his 56,000 followers on Instagram. Another popular AI music poster, AI For the Culture, has garnered 150,000 subscribers on YouTube for his work, which includes AI-generated period music, paired with an AI image and a fictional artist bio to humanize the track. One of his songs, “Turn On The Lights” — which used AI to reimagine a Future’s “Turn On The Lights” as 1970s soul — was sampled in JPEGMAFIA‘s “either on or off the drugs” last year.
