Deezer Says 44% of New Music Uploads Are AI-Generated

Paris: Nearly half of all music uploaded to Deezer every day is now AI-generated. The streaming platform announced Monday that AI tracks account for 44% of daily uploads which is roughly 75,000 tracks per day and more than two million per month. A year ago, that figure stood at 10,000 tracks per day. The sevenfold increase in just over twelve months marks a structural shift in how music reaches streaming platforms.

The volume has not translated into listens. AI-generated tracks represent just 1 to 3% of total streams on the platform. Of those streams, Deezer detects 85% as fraudulent, automated plays designed to generate royalty payments and demonetises them. The tracks are arriving in bulk. The actual audience for them is minimal. The fraud operation underneath is significant.

Deezer is currently the only major streaming platform explicitly tagging AI-generated music. Its patent-pending AI Music detection tool launched in January 2025 and can identify output from leading generative music models including Suno and Udio. Over 13.4 million AI tracks were detected and tagged on the platform across 2025. The company has since stopped storing high-resolution versions of AI tracks entirely.

CEO Alexis Lanternier used Monday’s announcement to call for broader industry action. The numbers Deezer is publishing exist precisely because it built the infrastructure to find them. Other platforms almost certainly face the same volumes, they just are not measuring or disclosing them.

The stakes extend beyond fraud. A commissioned study cited by Deezer found that 97% of listeners cannot distinguish AI music from human-made recordings. Separately, 80% of respondents said AI-generated music should be clearly labelled. The content is indistinguishable. The audience wants transparency. The industry has not yet delivered it.