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As of 13 August 2026, AI can write a chorus for your song.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill needednone

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsThe supplied tool data does not give a price for a human songwriter or producer.

If this goes wrong: the chorus sounds generic or does not fit your melody, so you replace it or rewrite it before releasing the song.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open a notes app or document and paste the lyrics you already have, including the verse and pre-chorus if they exist.
    2. Write down the song's theme, the emotion you want, the genre, the chorus length and any words or subjects you want to avoid.
    3. Add the key, tempo, time signature, chord progression or a plain description of the melody if you know them.
    4. Paste the completed information into the prompt and ask the chatbot for the three chorus options.
    5. Sing each option over the actual verse and chorus section, then remove lines that are awkward to fit, too hard to sing or unrelated to the song.
    6. Ask the chatbot to revise your chosen option using the exact changes you found while singing, then compare the revision with your original lyrics before keeping it.

    Prompt

    Write three chorus options for my song.

Song context:
- Theme or story: [describe what the song is about]
- Emotion I want the listener to feel: [emotion]
- Genre and reference to the broad style, without copying any artist: [genre and style]
- Existing verse or pre-chorus lyrics: [paste lyrics]
- Key, tempo, time signature and chord progression, if known: [details or not known]
- Desired chorus length: [number of lines or bars]
- Words, topics or clichés to avoid: [list]

Make each chorus easy to sing, distinctive and connected to the existing lyrics. Give each option a clear hook and a different lyrical angle. Keep the language natural and do not imitate a living artist or reuse recognisable lyrics. Mark the stressed or repeated hook where helpful. After the three options, explain which one is most likely to fit the information supplied and identify any line that may need changing to match the melody. Do not invent personal facts about me or claim that the lyrics fit the melody unless the supplied information supports that conclusion.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • It cannot know the emotional history behind the song unless you explain it, so the first drafts often use broad images and familiar phrases.
  • It cannot reliably hear or reproduce the exact melodic stress and breath pattern from a text description alone.
  • It does not decide whether a hook feels personal, memorable or honest to you.
  • It can produce lines that resemble common songwriting language, so you must remove anything that sounds borrowed or generic.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: taste and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs1
Verification2
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total9 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write a chorus for my song?
Yes. It can produce several chorus drafts from your theme, existing lyrics, genre and musical details, but you need to sing them over your song and choose the one that feels like yours.
Can AI make a chorus fit my melody?
Partly. Give it the tempo, key, chords, line length and any syllable pattern you know, then test every line against the actual melody because text alone does not prove that the phrasing fits.
Will an AI-written chorus sound original?
It can give you a useful starting point, but it may default to familiar images, rhymes and emotional language. Rewrite the lines that do not reflect your experience and avoid keeping anything that sounds recognisable from another song.
What should I tell AI to write a good chorus?
Give it the song's subject, emotional direction, existing lyrics, genre, chorus length and any chord or melody information you have. Ask for multiple options, a clear hook and language that avoids clichés, then check the result by singing it over your track.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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