Breaking Rust’s “Walk My Walk” is currently the No. 1 song on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart
The song was created using artificial intelligence by Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor
Taylor is also listed as the composer of AI-generated country songs released under the artist name Defbeatsai
Who is Breaking Rust?
The No. 1 song on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart for the week of Nov. 8, 2025 is “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust, a seemingly gritty track featuring a raspy vocal performance of lyrics from the perspective of a “rough” and “raw” man who “ain’t selling my soul for a seat at your table.”
Breaking Rust, however, is not a real person at all. “Walk My Walk” is a song created using artificial intelligence by someone named Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, according to credits listed on Spotify.
While debates about AI’s relationship to art are more tense than ever, listeners have embraced “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust. Of course, it’s unclear if they’re all aware the track was composed by a computer.
In addition to topping the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart, “Walk My Walk” currently sits in the top 10 of the all-genres chart on iTunes, while Breaking Rust’s Resilient EP is in the top 10 on the platform’s albums side.
Breaking Rust also boasts over 2.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, where “Walk My Walk” has over 3.6 million streams to date.
And who exactly is the person behind Breaking Rust? Taylor doesn’t seem to have much of an online presence, though they’re also listed as the composer of AI-generated country songs released under the artist name Defbeatsai — many of which are comically raunchy.
In September, Spotify announced stronger AI protections for artists, songwriters and producers.
At the time, the streaming service stated that over 75 million spam tracks were removed from the platform, which expressed a focus on “improved enforcement of impersonation violations,” “a new spam filtering system” and “AI disclosures for music with industry-standard credits.”
However, Breaking Rust and Defbeatsai are each currently labelled as a “verified artist” on Spotify.
Recently, Xania Monet made history as the first known AI-generated singer to appear on a Billboard radio airplay chart. Creator Telisha Nikki Jones sat down with Gayle King for a CBS Mornings interview earlier this month after landing a multimillion-dollar recording contract with Hallwood Media for Monet.
Jones explained she writes all the lyrics to Monet’s songs (including the hit “How Was I Supposed to Know?”) and produces them using the AI app Suno with guiding prompts like “female voice,” “soulful vocals,” “slow tempo,” “R&B style,” “light guitar” and “heavy drums.”
“Xania is an extension of me, so I look at her as a real person,” she said.
“But you can’t sing! So in that sense, she’s not a real person,” King, 70, shot back. “What do you say to people who say she may be an extension of you, but other singer who have worked hard, who have practiced their craft, who are struggling to get heard, who are really doing the actual singing, you seem to have taken a shortcut through all of that?”
“I wouldn’t call it a shortcut, because I still put in the work,” said Jones. “Anytime something new comes about and it challenges the norm and it challenges what we’re used to, you’re going to get strong reactions behind it. And I just feel that AI is the new era that we’re in. I look at it as a tool, as an instrument. Utilize it!”