Breaking Rust is one of the hot new country artists on the scene – except he’s not actually real.

The AI generated “artist” just recently entered Billboard’s Country Music Digital Sales Chart, causing a lot of discourse about artistic integrity and songwriting credits.

As of right now, the identity behind the mystery persona has not been revealed.

As of right now, Breaking Rust ‘s “Walk My Walk” holds steady at No. 3 on the Viral 50 Chart on Spotify, while “Livin’ on Borrowed Time” climbs to No. 8. The songs are featured on a 2025 collection called Resilient .

This is rapidly becoming a real trend in the music industry that executives, charts and streaming companies are still grappling with classifying and tracking, as fellow country AI artist Cain Walker also climbs the cha

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