Deezer Says 44% Of Songs Uploaded To Its Platform Daily Are Ai-generated

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7:57 AM PDT · April 20, 2026

Deezer announced connected Monday that AI-generated tracks now correspond 44% of each caller euphony uploaded to its platform. The institution said it’s receiving almost 75,000 AI-generated tracks per time and much than 2 cardinal per month.

The depletion of AI-generated euphony connected nan level is still very low, astatine 1-3% of full streams, and 85% of these streams are detected arsenic fraudulent and demonetized by nan company.

The latest fig from Deezer highlights a continuous surge successful AI-generated euphony uploads to nan platform. Deezer reported receiving astir 60,000 AI tracks per time successful January, up from 50,000 successful November, 30,000 successful September, and conscionable 10,000 successful January 2025, erstwhile it first launched its AI-music discovery tool.

Songs tagged arsenic AI-generated connected Deezer are automatically removed from algorithmic recommendations and not included successful editorial playlists. The institution announced coming that it will nary longer shop hi-res versions of AI tracks.

The updated fig comes arsenic an AI-generated way topped nan iTunes charts past week successful nan United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, and New Zealand.

“AI-generated euphony is now acold from a marginal arena and arsenic regular deliveries support increasing, we dream nan full euphony ecosystem will subordinate america successful taking action to thief safeguard artists’ authorities and beforehand transparency for fans,” said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier successful a press release. “Thanks to our exertion and nan proactive measures we put successful spot much than a twelvemonth ago, we person shown that it’s imaginable to trim AI-related fraud and costs dilution successful streaming to a minimum.”

Today’s announcement comes arsenic Deezer conducted a survey past November that recovered that 97% of participants couldn’t show nan quality betwixt afloat AI-generated euphony and human-made music.

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The study besides recovered that 52% of respondents said 100% AI-generated songs shouldn’t beryllium included successful charts alongside human-made songs successful nan main charts. Meanwhile, 80% said 100% AI-generated euphony should beryllium intelligibly branded for listeners.

Deezer first started tagging AI tracks astatine nan level level successful June 2025, becoming nan first streaming level to do so. Over nan people of 2025, Deezer tagged much than 13.4 cardinal AI tracks connected its platform.

In February, French streaming work Qobuz announced plans to tag AI-generated content connected its platform. Other awesome streaming services, specified arsenic Spotify and Apple Music, return different approaches to AI-generated music, often combining nan usage of filters to place low-quality AI euphony pinch different transparency efforts near up to nan distributors.

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