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If you're perusing new tunes on music-streaming service Deezer, there's a good chance the song is AI-generated. Nearly 75,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded to Deezer each day, the company revealed today. That’s around 2 million new tracks per month, or 44% of all uploads.
However, Deezer says listening figures for AI-generated music are low, accounting for only 1% to 3% of total streams. It also found that many of the streams themselves, up to 85% in 2025, are fraudulent, meaning they’re demonetized due to manipulation.
Deezer labels AI-generated tracks and excludes them from its recommendation algorithms, so they won't show up in editorial playlists.
The streamer began tracking AI-generated content in early 2025 and found that around 10,000 tracks per day were using AI. The latests stats mean AI music has exploded by 650% in 16 months. Other major streaming platforms, including Apple Music and Spotify, aren’t currently as transparent about AI-generated music as Deezer or alternatives like Bandcamp.
“AI-generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon, and as daily deliveries keep increasing, we hope the whole music ecosystem will join us in taking action to help safeguard artists’ rights and promote transparency for fans,” says Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer.
“Thanks to our technology and the proactive measures we put in place more than a year ago, we have shown that it’s possible to reduce AI-related fraud and payment dilution in streaming to a minimum."
An AI-generated track hit the top of the US iTunes charts last weekend, uploaded under the artist name IngaRose. The song, titled "Celebrate Me," was made with the AI tool Sumo. It’s unclear how many sales were needed to reach the top of the charts, given that fewer people now use iTunes.