By Eamonn Forde
Publication Date: 2026-01-19 16:30:00
‘T“The format of the future,” says Mikey Shulman, “is music that you play.” withnot just play.” As CEO and co-founder of generative AI music company Suno, Shulman currently finds himself in the exciting, if perhaps unenviable, position of being simultaneously seen as the architect of music’s future – and its executor.
Founded just over two years ago, Suno allows users to create entire songs with just a few lyric inputs. Right now you can’t call it by a specific pop star’s name, but if you ask for “stadium-level confessional pop-country” that “references past relationships” or “public rivalries,” you might get a Taylor Swift-style song or something similar.
In June 2024, Suno became the target of a lawsuit brought by the record label trade organization RIAA on behalf of major labels in the United States, while the German collecting society GEMA, which represents songwriters, filed its own lawsuit the following January. Both claimed the service was training its…
