Half of All Songs Uploaded to Deezer Are Now Made by AI
The music streaming service says AI-generated tracks hit 90,000 uploads a day in June 2026. Now it's starting to delete the ones nobody listens to.
Key points
- In June 2026, AI-generated music peaked at 90,000 tracks uploaded to Deezer every single day.
- AI tracks crossed 50% of all daily uploads to Deezer as of mid-2026, up from 10% in January 2025.
- Deezer will now remove AI tracks that have had zero streams in the past six months or that were used in streaming fraud.
- Deezer's detection tool can identify music made with Suno and Udio, two AI music generators currently facing copyright lawsuits.
Eighteen months ago, roughly one in ten songs uploaded to Deezer, the French music streaming service, was made entirely by an AI. Today that number is one in two.
Deezer published figures this week showing the scale of the shift. In January 2025, about 10,000 AI-generated tracks arrived on the platform each day. By April 2026 that had risen to 75,000. June 2026 was the peak so far: 90,000 AI tracks uploaded every single day.
To put that in human terms: a single moderately successful human musician might release one album a year, which is ten to twelve songs. In one day, more AI tracks arrive on Deezer than any single person could listen to in several lifetimes.
Deezer is now pushing back. The company says it will remove AI-generated tracks that nobody has streamed in the past six months. It will also pull any tracks caught in "streaming fraud," which is when bots, not real listeners, play a song repeatedly to earn royalty payments. That fraud hurts actual musicians by diluting the pool of money that streaming royalties come from.
"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 in a statement.
Deezer already labels AI tracks on its platform, and it has built detection software that can spot music generated by Suno and Udio, two well-known AI music tools that are currently defendants in copyright lawsuits brought by major record labels. Earlier in 2026, Deezer made that detection tool available to other platforms, though it is not yet clear whether any major service has adopted it. Last month the company also released a separate tool that scans Apple Music and Spotify playlists to flag AI-generated songs.
Are human artists losing money because of this?
Yes, potentially. Streaming royalties work like a shared pie: every stream on the platform takes a slice. When millions of AI tracks rack up bot-driven plays, the slices going to real artists shrink. Deezer is calling this "payment dilution," and it is the core reason the company is now deleting the lowest-engagement AI content.
Other services are handling this differently. Bandcamp bans AI-generated music outright. Tidal blocks those tracks from earning any money at all. Apple Music asks uploaders to tag their music as AI-generated voluntarily. Spotify has its own policy on how much AI involvement is acceptable, first reported by TechCrunch AI.
If you are a musician, watch for platforms that give you clear labelling options and transparent royalty breakdowns, so you can see whether AI flooding is affecting your earnings.
