The K-pop industry moves fast…but not this fast.

Throughout this month, more than 75 different K-pop acts have new releases on their official artist pages across most streaming services — all seemingly being AI-generated music and all coming from the same label and music producer.

Jeison Music, whose real name appears to be Jeison Nuñez Severino, is the sole listed producer and composer of more than 250 songs uploaded in the past weeks to dozens of K-pop artist pages, including the late Goo Hara, who was found dead in her home in 2019. Most of these releases are currently live on Spotify and widely available across services like Amazon Music, iHeart, Deezer, TIDAL, Qboz, and Anghami. Jeison Music’s K-pop-related content does not appear to be showing on Apple Music and YouTube Music. All the releases list the label owner as “Audivi Music,” which has little information available online beyond one release from an artist named “Audivi Music” on streaming services. That track also seems to be AI-generated.

While I personally cannot verify whether the songs are AI-generated, several hints suggest they were created with AI. (Nuñez Severino did not return multiple requests for comment across platforms)

The first indication is that most of the songs use a very similar-sounding female or male voice across the tracks, whether solo or in a group. It is clear this producer didn’t do all of the their homework, as their creations under Co-Ed School (a short-lived 2010s act with four female members and six male) only features a single female voice.

In several cases, the Audivi Music release takes previously released album covers and alters them slightly, keeping the artist’s image intact while removing their name and the title, sometimes replacing it with nonsensical gibberish. Even I got tripped up when I saw this “new” release being serviced to me from one of my all-time favorites Orange Caramel.

As seen below, the 2026 Audivi Music release is on the left, while the original 2014 release from Pledis Entertainment (which joined HYBE in 2020) is on the right:

Also telling is the rapid pace at which Jeison and Audivi Music are uploading the music.

On February 12th alone, Audivi Music uploaded a three-track single album by Orange Caramel, a double single by disbanded girl group 9Muses, three-track EPs by inactive girl groups Crayon Pop and Rainbow Blaxx, a four-track EP by disbanded boy band 1THE9, as well as four-track EPs by disbanded girl group Stellar, solo singer and SECRET member Jun Hyo Seon, and Minah, a soloist and member of Girl’s Day. For those whose eyes got crossed at the numbers, that’s at least 27 songs uploaded by one label and producer across multiple artist pages in one day.

The strategy seems deliberate in specifically targeting artist pages that labels would not be actively monitoring but that still have a decent number of active listeners. The artists tend to have anywhere from thousands to hundreds of thousands of monthly Spotify listeners (e.g. SISTAR19 have over 468,500 monthly listeners). Audivi Music has even uploaded a song to the artist page for Yves, a trending K-pop solo singer collaborating with PinkPantheress and Rebecca Black under Warner Music’s ADA, with 1.1 million monthly listeners — though the song titled “Partio” has been separated from Yves’ artist page on a few services like Spotify and Deezer.

Jeison Nuñez Severino’s social media accounts are listed on his TIDAL artist page with his email available via Instagram and the producer has past releases in collaboration with other artists and creatives. However, all the K-pop-related releases under Audivi Music list him as the sole composer likely meaning all money and revenue generated from listeners go directly to him.

There are loads of conversations about AI and music today, but the K-pop industry has a wide range of opinions and uses. On the one hand, many fans are actively — and, at times, aggressively — anti-AI when it comes to K-pop idol music. Agencies have made statements admitting to using the service and promising not to in the future. But HYBE broke new ground when their “AI artist” Midnatt (who is actually veteran singer Lee Hyun) used such technology to help perfect his singing and pronunciation for a single released in six different languages. Even NewJeans former creative director Min Hee-jin explained that recent visuals for her newly launched label OOAK Records use AI as "a small part of our process" when “the vast majority is manual work including actual filming, 2D, 3D, motion graphics, sound design and color grading.”

The issue I personally have in this case — and with AI in general — is in taking the actual work someone else has done and reaping all the benefits of it. I see Nuñez Severino and Audivi as taking this a step further by being deliberately exploitative about where and how they upload their tracks in order to passively benefit from the artists’ work in creating their platform, fanbase and followings.

There is also the larger issue to consider with the many layers behind K-pop labels and artists (especially those active in the ‘90s-’10s like several here) outsourcing their streaming management to local Korean distributors, who then tend to outsource to international teams, making it all the more difficult to be in step with keeping an artist page up to date. There’s also the reality that editorial teams at music streaming services are becoming smaller with fewer resources for oversight and cleanup.

See below for the full list of artists I’ve identified with releases on Audivi Music, with Jeison Music/Jeison Nuñez Severino listed as the producer and composer.

(If you represent any of these artists and are looking for ways to clean up your artist pages, get in touch and I will do my best to help!)

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