A father and son from Brazil won the AI Song Contest 2025 on 16 November in Amsterdam, where the team Genealogy took first place with the song “Revolution” at a live awards show at Melkweg.
The 2025 event was the sixth edition of the AI Song Contest, a music competition in which teams submit songs created with the help of artificial intelligence. A total of 29 entries were selected to take part. Each song could run up to four minutes and had to use AI in the songwriting process.
The final was presented by Elizabeth Love. The result combined a jury score and public voting, each weighted at 50 percent of the outcome. The overall winner was decided from 10 finalists selected from a larger group of semifinalists.
In the combined result, Genealogy’s “Revolution” received 18.6 points, with 7.8 from the jury and 10.7 from the public vote. The outcome placed Genealogy ahead of entries from Argentina, the United States, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
| Origin | Team | Song | Jury | Public | Total | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Auditory Nerve | Silent N\Aight | 6.7 | 10.5 | 17.2 | 3 |
| Argentina | Nikki | Thanks for Being Lifeless (Music for Gamers) | 10.5 | 7.7 | 18.2 | 2 |
| Germany | marts– | Reykjavik Sunburn (Take 1 Redux) | 7.8 | 6.9 | 14.7 | 6 |
| Brazil | Genealogy | Revolution | 7.8 | 10.7 | 18.6 | 1 |
| United States | KiCKRaTT & KaOzBrD | Solarium | 7.6 | 6.9 | 14.5 | 9 |
| Spain | BRNRT Collective | Culocado | 7.5 | 6.8 | 14.3 | 10 |
| United States | GANTASMO | Machine à Trois | 6.8 | 7.8 | 14.6 | 8 |
| United Kingdom | DJ Swami | Come Into My World | 7.5 | 7.2 | 14.7 | 7 |
| United States | DADABOTS | MF U UP | 8.5 | 7.2 | 15.7 | 4 |
| United States | HEL9000 | Distant | Access | Memory | 8.2 | 7.3 | 15.5 | 5 |
Nineteen other entries took part in the semifinal stage. Teams listed for that round included LyricalSoundscape, DrilX, Papa Yaga, [anonymous], Ceremony Shadows, Acolyte 002, Yun+More, Black Steel, BUSKAN, BOTUOSO, Off StAIge, Hex&Vex, DEEPLEXITY, El Jardín de las Sequoias, Artist in the Loop, Gata Rubia, Carmel Freeman, W2S and Seva M featuring Kristina and Karolina.
The contest used a jury of 29 members who work with music, art and technology. Jury members named in contest material and related coverage included Jordan Rudess, Sandira Blas, Dorien Herremans, Der Küchenchef, Alexander Rehding, Rujing Stacy Huang, Ben Camp, Portrait XO, Max Shafer, Atser Damsma, Katerina Kosta, Joe Bennett, Marcel Vélez Vásquez, LJ Rich, Julian Lenz, Anja Volk, HOLLY (Miguel Oliveira), Bérnika, Anna Huang, Alan Lau, Sydney Schelvis, Seiya Matsumiya, Riley Knapp, Andrés Mondaca and Ryan Groves.
According to the organizers, the AI Song Contest is run by the Dutch foundation Stichting AI Song Contest and focuses on human and AI collaboration in composition. Teams apply machine-learning tools, generative models and other systems to create songs, while the public and jury evaluate both the musical result and the role of AI in the process.
The series began in 2020 and has taken place each year since. Earlier contests produced winners from Australia, Chile, the Netherlands, Thailand and the United States before Brazil’s win in 2025.
Organizers plan a 2026 edition, continuing the format with a semifinal, a jury selection of finalists and a final in which public voting and jury scoring are combined to name the overall winner.
