Sunday, August 16, 2026

Country Music Has a New Fake Crossover Pop Star: Fictional “River Cain,” AI, Suddenly Has Five Hit Singles and an Album on Charts

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River Cain is the latest fake singer to infiltrate iTunes.

The AI created country singer has five singles on the iTunes chart including “Hell Out of Me” at number 3, and “Mama’s Boy” at number 4. He also has an album on that chart at number 55, and one coming September 4th.

The music was released in December, according to one entry, or this past April but has suddenly started its climb.

Whoever invented River Cain, his songs, picture, and publicity is gaming iTunes. They’re also working YouTube, where 12 videos are lodged under River Cain. The inventor of this also has made fake videos on Instagram as if “River Cain” appeared on singing competitions. This has generated all kinds of links on the internet– and again they are all FAKE.

River Cain follows a slew of fake artists who’ve already wasted chart positions on iTunes this year.

It’s unclear who his creator is, or if he’s also from the world of Dallas Ray Little, who invented Eddie Dalton, a fake R&B singer from whole cloth.

Country radio stations take note. River Cain will not be doing in-studio appearances unless his so called label, Storm Records, sends an actor.

We are living in a weird time.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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