One in two tracks uploaded to the French streaming service Deezer in June was AI-generated, the company told Metro. This amounts to some 90,000 pieces of synthetic music flooding the service every day, double compared to September.
Why AI music is flooding streaming platforms
The reason for the influx is simple, Aurélien Hérault, chief innovation officer at Deezer, tells Metro. 'Because it's possible to do so,' Hérault says, 'it's never been easier to create music, and with only a few words you can prompt a whole song.'
When Deezer asked 9,000 people last year if they could identify a track made by AI versus one made by humans, AI fooled 97% of them.
Examples of AI-generated tracks
Someday is a song by the British-Sudanese neo-soul artist Elmiene, a human. Say My Name With Respect was composed using Suno, an AI software trained on tens of millions of pop songs. The artificial artist Xania Monet, crafted by Mississippi poet Telisha Jone, signed a $3million deal with a major R&B record label in September.
The song Heart You Help Me Find, by jazz singer Sienna Rose, has been flagged by Deezer's systems as containing AI elements. Toronto R&B creator 3ee is the human artist behind PDA. Deezer suggested one more AI artist: its album page carries a label reading 'AI-generated content. This album includes tracks detected as generated with the use of AI.'
The track listing the artist as 'Beats By AI' is a beat made by AI. Yet the vocals, instruments and lyrics for Dird Road I Stayed On were also produced by an algorithm. The artist Breaking Rust, with some 1,800 fans, is a music project by composer Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor. One of Taylor's tunes, Walk My Walk, was the first AI-generated single to top the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart.
Growth of AI music on Deezer
Deezer began tracking AI uploads in January 2025, when it was around 10,000 tracks, or 10% of daily uploads. The number doubled by April, climbed to 30,000 in September and 50,000 in November. In January 2026, some 60,000 AI tracks were uploaded daily.
Hérault says that the amount of streams of AI tunes on Deezer is between 1-3%. 'Up to 85% of these streams are fraudulent, meaning people are synthetically boosting the streams to steal money from the royalty pool and legitimate artists,' she says. Deezer excludes AI-generated tracks from recommendations. 'We want to give our users the choice,' Hérault adds, 'and we've seen that people care about knowing if they listen to AI music or not.'
