More than half of all new music on streaming sites is now generated with artificial intelligence, and the number is growing rapidly, but one platform is hitting hard

Deezer announces that more than half of all daily music uploads are generated by AI
The platform also announces stricter exclusion criteria for AI.
Deezer says AI is largely used for ‘streaming fraud’ and is cracking down

If you haven’t seen an AI commercial, social media post, or Minion meme, then you’re in luck. I can’t say I’ve listened to much AI-generated music (at least not that I know of) but I try. very It’s hard to actively avoid it.

Despite this, major streaming service Deezer has announced that more than half of all tracks uploaded to its library in June 2026 were slop songs. There are more than 90,000 new themes, and none of them were created by people.

This is a big increase in just a few months, as in April we heard that 44% of tracks were made with AI, and in December 30% of tracks were AI. That’s an approximate rate of increase of 3.3% each month, suggesting that October 2027 is when we could see Deezer reach musical singularity.

First steps to counter the tide

When the company shared these AI figures, Deezer also confirmed some additional steps it was taking to counter the rising tide of AI.

The streaming service has announced: “In the future, Deezer will systematically remove AI tracks used for streaming fraud and those that have not been played for at least 6 months,” implying, perhaps optimistically, that there is AI music. No used for this purpose.

Streaming fraud is the mass uploading of low-quality produced music to make some quick money. Think about people programming computers to generate songs (and I mean thousands of songs at a time) and then uploading them in batches. Why do this? Overwhelm, flood and replace any human-made music could be there for your ears to discover, and collect streaming royalties because you just became a big shot.

To explain, paying artists on streaming services usually means everyone gets a piece of a big pie, and more streams ensure you get a bigger slice of the pie (money). Beyonce gets a bigger slice of the pie than, say, The Bedford Band (a bad example since we haven’t written a single song yet, but you get the idea).

Scammers upload massive amounts of AI music in the hopes that if they get even a small number of listens on each track, their slice of the pie will increase due to the number of AI tracks they post.

It’s unclear how Deezer will identify AI-generated tracks as being used for streaming fraud, as opposed to… any other reason you’d create music with AI. It also remains to be seen if this move will have a significant impact on the number of AI tracks loaded or if it will be like scraping a sheet of ice off a glacier.

But it’s still nice to see a music streaming service. attempt deal with the decline of AI, rather than accepting it or just, well… ignoring it.