Deezer: More Than Half of Daily Uploads Are Now AI-Generated
More than half of all music uploaded to digital streaming platform Deezer is now entirely AI-generated. The platform says fully synthetic tracks surpassed 50% of its daily deliveries in June, reaching nearly 90,000 uploads per day during peak periods. That is a sharp rise from the figures they reported back in September 2025 (28%) and April 2026 (44%). When Deezer introduced its detection technology in January 2025, the figure was closer to 10,000 tracks and 10% of uploads.
Deezer has become the industry’s most visible source of data on the explosion in AI-generated music distribution because it has been detecting fully AI-generated music since early 2025. Its system identifies largely inaudible artifacts left by individual generative models and can reportedly identify which model produced a recording. Deezer claims 99.8% accuracy, with approximately two missed AI tracks per 1,000 and fewer than one false positive per 10,000 human-made tracks. The company detected and tagged more than 13.4 million AI tracks in 2025 and has filed two patents covering its technology, which were published by U.S. and European patent offices in June.
That technology is no longer confined to Deezer. Since January, the company has offered it for licensing to streaming platforms, distributors and rights organizations, with Billboard already using it to assess music appearing on its charts and Sacem participating in successful tests. Deezer also launched a free consumer version in June that allows listeners to scan playlists from 20 major streaming platforms without needing a Deezer subscription. The tool is available in 27 languages, giving users outside Deezer access to the same broader detection infrastructure.
The enormous supply of AI music has not yet produced an equivalent share of listening. Fully AI-generated tracks represent between 1% and 3% of Deezer’s streams, although the company removes them from editorial playlists and algorithmic recommendations, significantly limiting discovery. Deezer says up to 85% of streams on those tracks in 2025 were fraudulent, compared with 8% across its full catalog, and those plays were removed from royalty calculations. It will now take down AI tracks connected to fraudulent streaming, along with synthetic uploads that have received no streams for at least six months. The policy does not remove AI music as a category: detected tracks can remain available and labeled for listeners who deliberately seek them out.
