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ElevenLabs Launches Music v2 With Mid-Track Genre Switching and Commercial Clearance

ElevenLabs has released Music v2, a significantly upgraded AI music-generation model capable of shifting genres mid-track — moving from opera to heavy metal and back — while maintaining vocal coherence across fast rap, multilingual lyrics, and complex arrangements.

The model introduces section-by-section composition, allowing artists to build intros, verses, and choruses independently before stitching them together, and to re-generate specific parts using prompts without affecting the rest of the track. Non-musical sound effects can also be embedded directly into compositions.

Crucially, ElevenLabs said the model was trained exclusively on licensed data and cleared for commercial use — a pointed distinction from rivals Suno and Udio, both facing copyright lawsuits from major labels.

The release arrives as Google, Stability AI, and Suno all push into professional-grade AI music generation. Music v2 is available now via ElevenCreative and the ElevenMusic platform, with API access coming soon.

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