Half of New Uploads Are AI. Streams: 1–3%.

The most important numbers in music right now come from Deezer's detection systems, the industry's first to tag AI tracks at scale. Early 2025: about 10,000 AI tracks uploaded per day — roughly 10% of uploads. April 2026: 75,000 a day, 44%. By July, the platform reported the share had crossed 50%, peaking around 90,000 tracks daily in June. In eighteen months, AI went from a rounding error to the majority of new supply.

The number that matters more

Supply isn't demand. Per Deezer's own data, 85% of that AI flood is flagged as fraudulent and demonetized — bulk uploads built to farm royalties, not find listeners — and AI tracks collectively earn just 1–3% of total streams. Tens of thousands of tracks arrive daily; almost nobody plays them. The flood is real, but it's a flood of spam, not of songs people love.

Deezer's response went industry-wide in June: a free detector that identifies AI tracks across Spotify, Apple Music, and 18 other platforms — turning one service's defense into shared infrastructure, and pressuring everyone else toward labeling.

What this means for anyone buying music

In a market where half of everything new is machine-generated bulk, provenance becomes the product. The question isn't finding music anymore — it's finding music where someone stands behind the song: a named writer, disclosed authorship, rights that clear. That's the entire design of a curated licensing catalog: 7,000+ songs with writers on the certificate beats 90,000 anonymous uploads a day, every time someone actually needs a song.

Sources

• TechCrunch — Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded daily are AI-generated
• TechCrunch — Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated
• Deezer Newsroom — AI-generated tracks represent 44% of new uploaded music
• TechCrunch — Deezer's new tool can identify AI music from Spotify, Apple Music, and others
• Music Times — 75,000 AI tracks are uploaded to Deezer every day. Almost nobody listens.