Deezer Reports AI-Generated Tracks Now Account for 44% of All New Music Uploads

Deezer, the French music streaming service, reported on Monday that artificial intelligence-generated tracks now account for 44 percent of all new music uploaded to its platform, equivalent to nearly 75,000 AI-made songs every day and more than two million per month. Despite that volume, consumption of AI-generated music remains low, representing only 1 to 3 percent of total streams on the platform. The company also announced it will no longer store high-resolution versions of AI-generated tracks, tightening its existing suite of countermeasures. Deezer has been tracking AI uploads since launching its proprietary detection tool in January 2025, and the figures show a sharp and continuous acceleration over the intervening 15 months. The update arrived the same week that an AI-generated track topped the iTunes charts in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, and New Zealand, according to TechCrunch.

Deezer, a Paris-based streaming platform launched in August 2007, began tagging AI-generated tracks at the platform level in June 2025, becoming the first streaming service to do so publicly. Over the full course of 2025, Deezer tagged more than 13.4 million AI-generated songs using its patent-pending detection tool. The platform licenses that detection technology to third parties and positions it as an emerging industry standard. Other major services, including Spotify and Apple Music, have taken different approaches, combining filters for low-quality AI music with transparency measures left largely to distributors. French streaming rival Qobuz announced plans to tag AI-generated content on its own platform in February 2026.

Daily AI uploads grew sevenfold in just 15 months The growth in AI-generated uploads has been steep and consistent since Deezer first began measuring the phenomenon. The figure climbed to 20,000 per day by April 2025, reached 30,000 in September 2025, and hit 60,000 in January 2026, before reaching the current level of nearly 75,000, according to Billboard and TechCrunch. The platform now receives over 170,000 total song submissions daily, a figure that Billboard noted is substantially higher than the 100,000 daily uploads cited in Luminate's 2025 end-of-year report. Aurelien Herault, Deezer's chief innovation officer, and Manuel Moussallam, the company's director of research, told Billboard in a prior interview that part of the growth reflects improvements in the detection tool's data quality, alongside a genuine increase in fully AI-generated content as more users adopted tools such as Suno and Udio.

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Eighty-five percent of AI streams flagged as fraudulent Deezer's primary concern is not the artistic or cultural impact of AI music but its use as a vehicle for streaming fraud. The platform pays royalties only when a human listener streams a track, and it has determined that 85 percent of AI-generated music streams do not correspond to genuine human listening, according to multiple sources including Ars Technica and TechRadar. Those streams are demonetized, and AI-tagged tracks are automatically excluded from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. The company's detection tool, which is patent-pending, targets fully AI-generated songs from specific popular models including Suno and Udio, and carries a reported false positive rate of less than 0.01 percent. A Deezer survey conducted last November found that 97 percent of participants could not distinguish fully AI-generated music from human-made music when presented with three tracks, two of which were AI-generated. The same survey found that 80 percent of respondents believed 100 percent AI-generated music should be clearly labeled, and 52 percent said such tracks should not appear alongside human-made songs in mainstream charts.

„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.” — Alexis Lanternier via TechCrunch

Deezer calls on Spotify to follow its lead Deezer has used the latest report to press rival platforms to adopt similar detection and labeling practices. Chief executive Alexis Lanternier noted that the company made its detection technology available for licensing to industry peers in January 2026, and TechRadar reported that Deezer reached out directly to Spotify and other streaming giants to do more. Spotify has not publicly committed to an equivalent AI-tagging system, and Apple Music has similarly relied on distributor-level transparency rather than platform-level labeling. Deezer's decision to stop storing high-resolution versions of AI-generated tracks represents a further step in reducing the platform's operational costs associated with content it considers largely fraudulent. The company's detection model currently identifies only fully AI-generated songs, not partially AI-assisted ones, a limitation that Herault and Moussallam acknowledged in their Billboard interview.

„Since January, we have made our detection technology available for licensing, and we're looking forward to seeing industry peers of all kinds join us in the fight for fairness in the age of AI.” — Alexis Lanternier via Billboard