AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded every day on Deezer’s platform, adding to the more than thirteen million AI-tracks tagged since last year.

Although fully AI-generated music currently accounts for only a small fraction of streams on Deezer, something between 1% and 3%, the streaming service said that it now sees more than 2 million AI- tracks a month.

Deezer said that since its AI detection tool was put in place at the beginning of 2025, the company has tracked a marked increase in fully synthetic content, jumping from 10,000 AI-generated tracks a day to almost 75,000 in little over a year.

This is putting livelihoods at risk, with industry research from CISAC finding that, by 2028, genAI music will account for around 20% of streaming platforms’ revenues and around 60% of music libraries’ revenues, representing the potential loss of €10 billion for music creators over the next five years.

Despite that, genAI outputs in music are projected to generate exponential revenue, reaching an estimated €4 billion by 2028, a figure nearly 25% of projected human creators’ revenues.

Deezer found that up to 85% of the streams generated by these AI tracks were fraudulent last year, meaning most came from bots, click‑farms, or automated looping designed to inflate numbers. Rather than allowing these tracks to harvest revenue, Deezer said it has worked to isolate them, leading them to be demonetised.

“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,” said Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer.

The platform is now licensing its AI-detection tech to help others stem the flow of genAI content, which it claims can spot outputs from the most prolific generative models, such as Suno and Udio, with the possibility to add detection capabilities for other similar tools as long as there’s access to relevant data examples. 

Deezer has taken a strict stance on AI-tracks, being one of a handful of platforms committed to restricting AI-generated music alongside the likes of Bandcamp, which earlier this year banned music and audio created by genAI, along with AI tools for impersonating artists.

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Apple, meanwhile, relies on the honour system, asking creators to declare whether content is AI-generated through its Transparency Tags labelling system, and Spotify this month introduced a beta feature allowing artists to share how they’ve used AI in their music – but only after having had to purge over 75 million spammy tracks.

According to Deezer, that makes good business sense, with a recent survey finding that the majority of listeners want AI-tracks either clearly labelled (80%) or not included in charts alongside human-made songs (52%).

And yet, last week, the number one song on iTunes in the UK, US, France, Canada, and New Zealand was the AI-generated tune Celebrate Me from the faceless IngaRose, a fact sure to send shudders through Ed Sheeran.