Deezer Drowns in AI Songs as Half of New Uploads Go Synthetic

• Early tracking and rapid growth
• 2026: AI crosses the 50% threshold
• Crackdown on fraud and “dead” AI tracks
• Industry-wide split over AI music

Deezer Drowns in AI Songs as Half of New Uploads Go Synthetic
AI-generated music has quietly become the dominant new content on Deezer, forcing the streaming service to choose between embracing innovation and policing a flood of low-value or fraudulent tracks.

§Early tracking and rapid growth

Deezer began systematically tracking AI-generated uploads last year, when such songs made up around 10 percent of daily submissions, or roughly 10,000 tracks per day in January 2025. By April 2025, that figure had already doubled to about 20,000 AI tracks a day, or 18 percent of uploads, signaling that automated music tools were spreading fast among creators and spammers alike.

§2026: AI crosses the 50% threshold

By June 2026, Deezer says AI music had hit a peak, averaging 90,000 AI-generated tracks uploaded each day and accounting for more than half of all daily song uploads on the platform. One report summarized the shift bluntly: “Deezer says AI music now makes up half of all daily song uploads.”

The company confirmed that “more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated,” noting a steady month‑over‑month rise in synthetic tracks.

§Crackdown on fraud and “dead” AI tracks

To respond, Deezer has rolled out an AI detection tool that identifies AI-made recordings and flags them for potential removal when they are “used to generate fraudulent streams,” such as bot-driven plays to inflate royalties. The platform will also delete AI-generated tracks that have not been streamed in six months or more, effectively purging stagnant synthetic content from its catalog.

CEO Alexis Lanternier framed the move as a defense of human artists, saying Deezer is “taking additional steps to safeguard the rights of artists and songwriters, while maintaining focus on music that fans actually love.”

§Industry-wide split over AI music

Deezer’s escalating actions come amid a fractured industry response. Some rivals, like Bandcamp, have opted to ban AI music outright, while others such as Tidal have cut off monetization for AI tracks. Meanwhile, Apple Music has introduced voluntary AI tagging and Spotify has issued its own policy to label and limit AI-assisted content.

The result is a rapidly evolving landscape in which AI music is no longer a fringe experiment but the majority of new uploads—forcing platforms to balance openness to new tools with the need to protect human-made work and prevent streaming fraud.

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