Nearly half of the tracks uploaded to Deezer each day are now AI‑generated, but those files account for only 1–3% of the service’s streams. The Paris‑based streamer told reporters on April 20 it receives about 75,000 fully AI‑generated tracks every day — roughly 44% of new tracks — up sharply from about 10,000 when it began detection work in January 2025.

Scale of the surge

Deezer told reporters on April 20 it now receives about 75,000 fully AI‑generated tracks every day, roughly 44% of all new tracks delivered to the platform daily — a dramatic climb from the roughly 10,000 AI songs it was seeing when detection work began in January 2025.

  • November 2025: about 50,000 AI tracks per day
  • January 2026: about 60,000 AI tracks per day
  • April 2026: about 75,000 AI tracks per day; more than 2 million AI tracks per month at the present rate

Despite the upload volume, Deezer says AI music accounts for only 1–3% of total streams on its platform. That gap highlights both a glut of files entering distributor and aggregator systems and differences in how platforms and listeners consume music.

How Deezer detects and acts

Deezer rolled out a patent‑pending AI detection tool in January 2025 and began tagging suspected synthetic tracks at platform level in June 2025. The company says the system can already identify music created with tools such as Udio and Suno and can be adapted to recognise other generators if relevant training examples are available.

  • Catalogue tagging: more than 13.4 million AI tracks flagged in 2025
  • Demonetization: roughly 85% of streams from AI‑generated tracks were flagged as artificial plays and demonetized
  • Operational limits: removed from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists; high‑resolution versions of flagged tracks are no longer stored
  • Licensing and development: Deezer says it is licensing its detection tool to other firms and exploring methods to identify some AI tracks without a prior dataset

How listeners and research fit in

Deezer commissioned a blind listening study of 9,000 participants across eight countries.

  • 97% of listeners in the study couldn't reliably tell AI‑generated music from human‑created tracks by ear
  • About 80% of respondents said fully AI‑generated music should carry a clear label

If most listeners can't tell the difference by ear, automated detection and transparent labelling become primary ways to inform users — but detection is technically difficult and tagging depends on methods not every service has deployed.

Where other services stand

Deezer has positioned itself as one of the more transparent platforms on the issue, saying it is the first major streamer to run platform‑level tagging and to publish concrete upload volumes tied to AI generation.

This gap between upload volume and listening share underscores a practical problem for streaming services: large numbers of low‑engagement AI files can overwhelm catalogue systems and discovery even if listeners largely ignore them. Deezer’s detection, tagging and demonetization steps are intended to stop those files from surfacing and to protect rights and revenue flows.

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“AI‑generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon, and as daily deliveries keep increasing, we hope the whole music ecosystem will join us in taking action to help safeguard artist's rights and promote transparency for fans,” said Alexis Lanternier, Deezer CEO.

This article was created with AI assistance.