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Suno Will Press Your AI-Generated Songs Onto Vinyl — at $45 a Record

Kiran MachadoPublished 2d ago3 min readBased on 6 sources
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Suno Will Press Your AI-Generated Songs Onto Vinyl — at $45 a Record
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On Thursday, August 6, Suno unveiled a service that lets users press AI-generated songs onto vinyl records, moving the artificial-intelligence music platform from the phone screen to the turntable.

The offering, first reported by Music Business Worldwide and confirmed by Billboard, produces 12-inch black vinyl with full-colour sleeves and labels. Each record can hold up to 46 minutes of audio, pressed from the final mixes users create on Suno's platform. Users can design the packaging with their own artwork or have Suno generate it for them.

Suno estimates the records will cost $45, not including shipping. The company has not announced a launch date. A waitlist page at vinyl.suno.com carries the note: "Vinyl isn't live yet, but it's coming."

On the same day, Suno CEO Mikey Shulman posted a set of principles on the company's website that included limits on downloads of songs created on the platform, according to Billboard. Those download limits form part of Suno's settlement with Warner Music Group, which had filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI company. Warner also announced in November 2025 that Suno will launch new, more advanced and licensed models in 2026, under the terms of the partnership between the two companies.

Suno lets users generate original tracks by entering custom lyrics, mood descriptions, tempo, instruments and vocal style. Anyone can create 10 songs a day free of charge; paid Pro and Premier plans add higher creation limits and commercial rights. The Pro plan allows up to 500 custom songs per month. The platform covers genres from R&B, pop and soul to rock, EDM, rap, jazz and classical. Suno describes itself as a top 10 music app on both iOS and Android, with a 4.9 rating from over 363,000 reviews on iOS and a 4.8 rating from over 653,000 reviews on Android.

For users who want to take their creations further, Suno's Premier Plan includes Suno Studio, which the company calls the first AI-native digital audio workstation — the software musicians use to record, edit and mix audio. Users can export up to 12 time-aligned WAV stems, the individual instrument or vocal tracks that make up a finished song, for use in external workstations such as Ableton and Logic.

What makes the vinyl announcement catch the eye is the collision of two music formats moving in opposite directions. Vinyl has spent the better part of a decade resurgent, with physical record sales outpacing CD sales in several recent years. AI-generated music, meanwhile, exists almost entirely on servers and screens. Pressing one onto the other asks a question Suno does not need to answer to take the order: whether a song no human performed belongs in the same groove as the records people line up to buy on release day.

Suno has not said how many records it expects to press, or which plant will handle manufacturing.