Deezer Now Receives 75,000 Fully AI-Generated Tracks Per Day, Up From 10,000 Fourteen Months Ago
Deezer reported on April 20 that fully AI-generated music now accounts for 44% of all new tracks delivered to the platform daily, approximately 75,000 tracks per day, up from 60,000 in January 2026 and 10,000 in January 2025 when the platform launched its detection tool. The company has tagged more than 13.4 million AI tracks since June 2025 and now stops storing hi-res versions of AI-generated content on top of existing bans from editorial playlists and algorithmic recommendations. CEO Alexis Lanternier said: 'AI-generated music is now far from a marginal phenomenon.' Consumption of AI tracks remains low at 1 to 3% of total streams, with 85% of those streams detected as fraudulent and demonetized.
THE BREAKDOWN
The royalty pool dilution math keeps getting worse: with AI tracks at 44% of new uploads and rising, the denominator for per-stream payouts keeps expanding while human consumption stays flat. Music managers need to understand how their clients' catalogs are performing relative to this flood and whether the platforms they are distributed through have detection tools comparable to Deezer's. This data is concrete leverage with labels and distributors over the value of human-made catalogs and the pricing of sync and licensing deals. The platform-level divergence, where Deezer detects and demonetizes AI fraud but others do not, creates real inequity in how royalties flow that managers should be raising with their distribution partners now.
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