Original Data

What People Actually Make
With an AI Song Generator

October 12, 2026 · 7 min read

Most articles about AI music guess at how people use it. We decided to count instead. Between April 3 and October 11, 2026, Evasong received 3,275 song requests from 1,404 accounts. We aggregated every one of them to see what people write songs about, what they want those songs to sound like, and what they do when the first version is not quite right.

The short answer: people mostly bring their own words, they sing about the people in their lives, and most of them are not writing in English.

Key Findings

  1. 64% of users pasted their own lyrics at least once instead of letting the AI write the words.
  2. Love is the single biggest topic (17% of described songs), followed by songs for friends and parties, family and kids, rap, and birthdays.
  3. The most common style request is not a genre. It is the voice: 25% asked for male vocals and 24% for female vocals. Piano is the most requested instrument (19%).
  4. 60% of users wrote their first song in a language other than English. Spanish alone accounts for 19%.
  5. A third of users who got a finished song ran the same lyrics again, and 91% of them changed the style rather than the words.

Most People Bring Their Own Lyrics

Evasong offers two ways to start. You can describe the song in a sentence and let the AI write the lyrics, or switch to custom mode and paste words you already have. We expected the one-sentence mode to dominate. It did not.

64%
used their own lyrics
52%
described a song in a sentence
1,300
median lyric length (characters)

Almost two thirds of users used their own lyrics at least once, and those lyrics were substantial: the median submission was about 1,300 characters, roughly the length of a full three-minute song. Half of all lyric submissions were already organized with section labels such as Verse and Chorus. These are people who have something specific to say and want it sung, not people looking for a random track.

What People Write Songs About

Among the 664 people who described a song in their own words, these themes came up most often. One description can touch more than one theme.

ThemeShare of users
Love and romance
17%
Friends, parties and celebrations
9%
Family and kids
9%
Rap and hip-hop
7%
Birthdays
7%
Heartbreak and sadness
6%
Faith and worship
5%
Weddings and anniversaries
2%

The pattern is personal. Most requests are written for, or about, a specific person: a partner, a child, a friend with a birthday coming up. Weddings appear less often than we expected, probably because people describe them as love songs instead.

What People Want It to Sound Like

In custom mode, users can describe the sound they want. Of the 754 people who did, these were the most frequent requests.

RequestShare of users
Male vocals
25%
Female vocals
24%
Piano
19%
Acoustic guitar
15%
Drums
14%
Bass
12%
Happy mood
11%
Romantic mood
11%
Energetic mood
11%
Mid-tempo
11%
Slow tempo
10%
Violin
10%

Two things stand out. First, the voice matters more than the genre. Choosing who sings is the most common decision people make, and the split between male and female vocals is almost exactly even. Second, the most requested instruments are warm and acoustic: piano, acoustic guitar, violin. People are mostly making songs to give to someone, and those songs lean toward ballads rather than club tracks.

Instrumental music is a smaller but steady use case. 14% of users generated at least one track with no vocals, typically as background music for videos.

Most Songs Are Not in English

We looked at the language of each user's first song, using the lyrics or the description they wrote. Of the 1,192 users we could classify:

LanguageShare of users
English
40%
Spanish
19%
Arabic, Persian or Urdu
10%
French
9%
Portuguese
6%
Italian
4%
German
4%
Russian or Ukrainian
3%
Chinese
2%
Hindi
2%

Six in ten users wrote in something other than English. Spanish is a clear second, and Arabic-script languages make up a group bigger than French. If you write in your own language, you are the majority, not an edge case. Modern AI vocals handle most of these languages well, and the result usually sounds more natural when the lyrics are written natively instead of translated.

People Iterate on the Sound, Not the Words

Of the 412 users who turned their own lyrics into a finished song, 34% ran the same lyrics again. Almost all of them (91%) changed the style description before trying again.

In other words, people usually get the words right on their own and then use the AI to audition arrangements: a slower tempo, a female voice instead of a male one, piano instead of guitar. Treat the first result as a draft of the sound, not a final verdict on your lyrics.

How We Measured This

The data covers every music generation request on Evasong from April 3 to October 11, 2026: 3,275 requests from 1,404 accounts. Each percentage counts people, not requests, so one very active user cannot skew a result. We only looked at aggregate counts. No individual lyrics, prompts, or songs are quoted or published here.

Topics and languages were classified by keyword matching, so treat those figures as close estimates rather than exact counts. Our generator fills in "Pop" when a user picks no style at all, so that default was excluded from the style analysis. Style figures come only from styles people typed or selected themselves.

What This Means for Your Next Song

1
Start from your own words
If you have lines that matter to you, paste them in. That is what most people do, and the song ends up saying exactly what you meant.
2
Label your sections
Marking Verse, Chorus and Bridge tells the AI where the melody should lift and where it should repeat. Half of all users already do this.
3
Choose the voice first
Pick male, female or child vocals before anything else. It is the choice that changes the song most, which is why it is the most common request.
4
Keep the style short and concrete
Two or three instruments plus a mood and a tempo (for example: piano, violin, romantic, slow) beats a long paragraph of adjectives.
5
Regenerate the style, not the lyrics
If the first version feels off, change one style element and try again. Swapping the instrument or tempo usually fixes it faster than rewriting.

Frequently Asked Questions

From every music generation request made on Evasong between April 3 and October 11, 2026: 3,275 requests from 1,404 accounts. Only aggregate counts were used, and no individual content is published.
Love songs. 17% of people who described a song asked for a love or romance theme, roughly double the next topics, which are songs for friends and parties and songs for family and kids.
Yes. In our data, 60% of users wrote their first song in another language, led by Spanish, Arabic-script languages, French and Portuguese. Writing the lyrics directly in your language gives the most natural result.
Both work, but 64% of users chose to use their own lyrics at least once. If the song is for a specific person or moment, your own words make it personal. If you only have an idea, describe it in one sentence and edit the lyrics the AI writes.
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