Deezer says AI-generated music now makes up 44% of all daily uploads

Deezer has revealed that AI-generated music now accounts for 44% of all daily uploads to its platform, up from 30% last September. The streaming service is now receiving close to 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day, equating to more than two million per month.

The numbers come from Deezer’s own detection tooling, which the company rolled out in January 2025 and has since used to tag more than 13.4 million tracks as AI-generated across 2025 alone. Deezer was the first streaming platform to introduce platform-level AI tagging in June 2025.

Growth in AI-generated music has been steep. The daily upload count was around 10,000 when the detection tool launched. By September 2025 that number had hit 30,000. November pushed it to 50,000. January 2026 reached 60,000 (39%). The latest figure of 75,000 a day represents 44% of all new uploads.

Listener engagement tells a different story. Despite the upload flood, AI-generated music sits at between 1% and 3% of total streams on the platform. Around 85% of those streams have been detected as fraudulent and demonetised, suggesting the AI flood is being driven more by streaming-fraud actors than by genuine listening demand.

Deezer’s response goes beyond tagging. AI-generated tracks on the platform are automatically removed from algorithmic recommendations and excluded from editorial playlists. The combination of detection, tagging and exclusion is designed to protect the discovery surfaces that drive most legitimate consumption.

Industry stakes are real. A study from CISAC and PMP Strategy estimates that nearly 25% of human creators’ revenues are at risk by 2028, equivalent to up to €4 billion globally. The Deezer numbers strengthen that case by showing how quickly the supply side of AI-generated music has scaled, even as the demand side stays small.

The 44% figure also lands inside a wider industry conversation about AI in music that has been building across 2025 and 2026.