Paris, April 21, 2026, 15:33 CEST
Deezer said nearly 75,000 fully AI-generated tracks are being uploaded to its music service each day, equal to about 44% of all new daily music deliveries, a sharp rise that puts machine-made songs close to overtaking human-made uploads on the platform.
The update matters because streaming royalties are pooled and paid out at scale. Even low-listened tracks can drain money and attention if they are uploaded in bulk, especially when bots or other manipulation are used to create plays.
Deezer said AI-generated music still accounts for only 1% to 3% of total streams on its service, but 85% of those streams were detected as fraudulent and demonetized, meaning they were excluded from royalty payments.
The Paris-based company has tried to keep the material away from listeners’ feeds. Songs tagged as AI-generated are removed from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists, and Deezer said it has stopped storing high-resolution versions of AI tracks.
“AI-generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon,” Deezer Chief Executive Alexis Lanternier said, adding that the company wants the wider industry to help protect artists’ rights and give listeners more transparency. Deezer Newsroom
The pace has moved quickly. Deezer said daily AI-generated uploads have risen from about 10,000 in January 2025, when it launched its AI-music detection tool, to 75,000 a little more than a year later. It said more than 13.4 million AI tracks were detected and tagged on the service in 2025.
Deezer’s figures refer to fully AI-generated tracks, not every song where software helped with mixing, mastering or production. That distinction is becoming harder to police as AI tools move from novelty apps into ordinary studio workflows.
Spotify has also tightened its policies. The larger streaming rival said it removed more than 75 million spammy tracks in the past 12 months, introduced stronger rules against unauthorized vocal impersonation, and is backing industry-standard AI disclosures in song credits.
Qobuz, another French streaming and download service, said in February it had started using a proprietary tool to identify and tag 100% AI-generated content across new releases and its catalog. Qobuz Deputy CEO Georges Fornay called the surge a “hyperinflation of AI-generated content.” Qobuz Community
The risk is that detection remains a moving target. Deezer says its tool can identify music made with prolific generative models such as Suno and Udio, but model updates, undisclosed AI use and borderline cases could still leave platforms chasing the next wave of uploads.
For now, the economics are the pressure point. Deezer’s own data suggests AI songs are not yet a major listening category, but they are already a major supply problem — and one that can crowd catalogs, muddy charts and force streaming services to spend more on fraud controls.
