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Story timeline4 events2025 – Oct 2026

Xania Monet’s record deal: timeline

How a Mississippi poet’s Suno-made R&B persona went from first releases to a multimillion-dollar deal with Hallwood Media and a Billboard airplay chart. Dated and sourced.

Checked Oct 23, 2026 4 sources from 4 publishers Report an error

What happened, in order

Oldest first

2025

  1. Event 1 of 4

    Telisha “Nikki” Jones, a poet from Mississippi, starts releasing songs as Xania Monet in 2025; she writes the lyrics and generates the music with Suno.

  2. Event 2 of 4

    Billboard reports that Hallwood Media signed Xania Monet in a multimillion-dollar deal after bidding reached $3 million, according to its sources. Billboard says labels backed by the majors, which were suing Suno, abstained from making offers, though one major label made a top offer anyway.

  3. Event 3 of 4

    CNN, citing Billboard, reports Xania Monet is the first known AI artist to earn enough radio airplay to debut on a Billboard radio chart.

    • CNN checked Oct 23, 2026

2026

  1. Event 4 of 4

    Xania Monet’s Spotify profile shows an “AI Persona” badge, the badge for artists who self-disclose to Spotify that their public identity is AI-generated (seen Oct 23, 2026).

The artist file

  1. Xania Monet Yes. Xania Monet is a persona created by Mississippi poet Telisha “Nikki” Jones, who writes the lyrics and has said she uses AI for the image and Suno for the music. Creator disclosed AI R&B Oct 23, 2026

Songs in this story

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Xania Monet en.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 23, 2026
  2. Billboard: AI artist Xania Monet climbs the charts billboard.com · checked Oct 23, 2026
  3. CNN: Xania Monet is the first AI-powered artist to debut on a Billboard airplay chart cnn.com · checked Oct 23, 2026
  4. Spotify: Xania Monet on Spotify open.spotify.com · checked Oct 23, 2026