Deezer says AI-generated tracks exceed half of daily music uploads
The share climbed from 10% of roughly 10,000 daily uploads in January 2025 to over half of about 90,000 daily uploads by June 2026, Deezer's own detection tool found.
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Music streaming service Deezer reported that fully AI-generated tracks had passed half of its roughly 90,000 daily uploads as of June 2026, using detection technology it built to identify music made with tools including Suno and Udio, the AI music startups both then involved in copyright litigation. Deezer began tagging AI-generated music on its platform in 2025 and has tracked the share’s growth since: from about 10,000 daily uploads (10%) in January 2025, to 20,000 (18%) in April 2025, 30,000 (28%) in September 2025, 50,000 (34%) in November 2025, 60,000 (39%) in January 2026, and 75,000 (44%) in April 2026, before crossing the 50% mark by June.
Deezer made its detection tool available to rival platforms earlier in 2026, though it was unclear how widely other services had adopted it, and separately released a tool letting users scan their Apple Music and Spotify playlists for AI-generated content. Chief executive Alexis Lanternier said the company had “been at the frontline of fighting fraud and reducing payment dilution related to AI music for almost two years,” and Deezer said it was removing unstreamed AI tracks and those implicated in fraudulent streaming schemes designed to inflate royalty payouts.
As one of the only platforms publishing a consistent, dated series on generative-music volume, Deezer’s figures functioned as a rough industry proxy even though they reflected upload behaviour on a single service rather than the wider market, and did not distinguish between AI-assisted and fully AI-generated tracks in all cases.