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YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
Listen to a song, then explore the melody, rhythm, and chords in its symbolic plan.
A familiar song can take a different shape. Listen to changes in melody, lyrics, tempo, and arrangement.
A song takes shape through a conversation. Loading the editing story…
The listening selection, gathered across genres and languages.
YuE2 (best-of-8) reaches 6.9632 on SongBench, the highest observed mean among 15 evaluated settings on WildSongBench (192 prompts). Suno v5 scores 6.8721 in the same comparison.
September 5, 2026 evaluation · rankings vary by metric.
WildSongBench. 192 prompts and 15 system settings. The table reports automatic evaluation scores. Best-of-8 selects one of eight generations by musicality, prompt control, and lyric accuracy.
Figure 1. Song quality combines SongBench and SongEval; text alignment combines MuLan, AllMusicCaps, and prompt control. Both axes show normalized comparison indices. Bubble area represents AudioBox production quality.
MERT2-30s and MERT2-FS (full-song) achieve SOTA on 14 of 15 MARBLE metrics, leading across tagging, key, genre, and emotion recognition.
SOTA counts use the best score across the two MERT2 encoders against the nine published baselines in this comparison. Both encoders have 632M parameters. MERT2-30s uses a 30-second training context; MERT2-FS uses 300 seconds. These are full-context representation benchmarks. MERT2 reports the best observed results across representations selected using test scores; each ROC-AUC / AP pair uses the same representation.