Deezer reports AI music tops 50% of daily uploads
Music streaming platform Deezer has revealed that artificial intelligence now generates more than half of its daily track uploads, forcing a purge of unused content to protect royalty payouts for human artists.
Deezer has revealed that artificial intelligence now accounts for more than half of the music uploaded to its platform daily, hitting a peak monthly average of 90,000 synthetic tracks per day in June. To combat the flood of automated content, the streaming company will begin removing AI-generated music that has not been streamed in the past six months or is tied to fraudulent listening activity.
The volume of AI uploads has grown at an extraordinary pace since Deezer began publishing data in January 2025. At that time, artificial intelligence accounted for just 10,000 daily uploads, representing 10% of the total. By April 2026, that figure had climbed to 75,000 tracks and 44% of daily volume before crossing the 50% threshold.
This relentless influx presents a direct economic threat to the streaming ecosystem. An avalanche of low-quality tracks risks diluting the royalty pools that human artists and songwriters rely on for income, particularly when bad actors use synthetic music to artificially inflate play counts.
The broader industry has yet to agree on a unified response. Strategies vary widely, with Bandcamp banning AI tracks outright and Tidal cutting off monetization for them. Apple Music relies on a voluntary tagging system, while Spotify has implemented its own internal policies regarding AI's role in music creation.
Deezer is positioning itself as an aggressive defender of human creators. “Deezer has been at the frontline of fighting fraud and reducing payment dilution related to AI music for almost two years. Now that half of all daily uploads are AI-generated tracks, we are taking additional steps to safeguard the rights of artists and songwriters, while maintaining focus on music that fans actually love,” CEO Alexis Lanternier said.
The company has spent the last year building detection tools capable of identifying music made with models from Suno and Udio, two AI startups currently facing copyright lawsuits. Deezer has offered this detection technology to other platforms, though adoption by major rivals remains unclear. Last month, it also released a separate tool designed to scan Apple Music and Spotify playlists for AI-generated content.
