Your own words, an AI voice and image, and a label deal.
Turn your lyrics into an AI R&B artist: Xania Monet's multimillion-dollar deal
Personal, specific lyrics gave an AI-voiced project a real story that labels and listeners could connect with.
Figures as reported by Billboard (press, Sep 2025) · source
From Billboard · Sep 2025
The workflow
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What they did
- 1The moveXania Monet is the AI R&B persona of Telisha "Nikki" Jones, a Mississippi poet and design-studio owner.
- 2Step 2Write lyrics from your own life
- 3Step 3Generate the music with an AI tool
- 4ResultBillboard reported that bidding to sign her reached $3 million (per its sources) and that Hallwood Media signed her to a multimillion-dollar deal.
Quick answers
What tools do you need?
Suno (ai music and songs from a text prompt).
How much does it cost?
You can start for $0: Suno has a free plan. Check each tool's site for current prices.
Is it allowed?
Follow the platform rules and disclose ads.
Watch out: Deal value is a press report from unnamed sources, not a disclosed figure. Copyright for AI-generated music and vocals is still unsettled.
Try it yourself
(Our template, not the creator's prompt.) Help me shape my own poem into song lyrics: verse, pre-chorus and chorus, keeping my words and story, plus a short style prompt (genre, tempo, vocal tone) for an AI music tool.
Starter tools
Your first step
Open Suno, paste the prompt above and swap the [brackets] for your own niche.
Full write-up & sources
More detail: Billboard reported that about 90% of the lyrics come from her own life stories and that she used Suno plus live elements to make the music.
Results: It said her catalog had 9.8 million on-demand US streams and that "How Was I Supposed to Know" hit No. 1 on R&B Digital Song Sales (Sep 16, 2025).
Source: Billboard · Sep 2025. Summarised in our own words; figures as reported by Billboard (press, Sep 2025). Updated .
