{"id":2381727,"date":"2026-04-20T18:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2381727"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:51:54","slug":"nearly-half-of-new-streaming-music-is-ai-generated-says-deezer-but-nobodys-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nearly-half-of-new-streaming-music-is-ai-generated-says-deezer-but-nobodys-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half of New Streaming Music Is AI-Generated, Says Deezer\u2014But Nobody\u2019s Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;overflow:visible;font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.58\">\n<div class=\"pt-8 pb-10 border-t border-b border-decryptGridline \">\n<h4 class=\"sc-b2a202e4-4 bNRGqr gg-dark:text-white\" color=\"#333\">In brief<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded daily to Deezer&#8217;s platform, the firm said.<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The streaming service receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day, totaling over 2 million each month.<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">However, AI music accounts for only 1-3% of total streams on the platform\u2014and a majority of the streams are demonetized due to detected fraud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Decrypt News roundup with TylerD - April 20th\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3c4SHSYtdjKaij56mTUJ4V?si=60ILm9-vTaaI6iAwrpvEfA&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">French music streaming service Deezer said Monday that AI-generated tracks now represent <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom-deezer.com\/2026\/04\/ai-generated-tracks-represent-44-of-new-uploaded-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">44% of all new daily uploads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, with the platform receiving nearly 75,000 artificial tracks per day. However, there are few real listeners, with most of the AI music streams being demonetized due to apparent fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The surge translates to over 2 million AI tracks uploaded monthly, marking the first comprehensive data disclosure from a major streaming platform about artificial content proliferation. Yet despite flooding the platform with uploads, these AI-generated tracks capture minimal listener attention\u2014accounting for just 1-3% of total streams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The disconnect between upload volume and consumption appears linked to fraudulent activity. Deezer&#8217;s proprietary detection technology has identified 85% of streams from AI-generated tracks as artificial plays, which the company has subsequently demonetized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The platform deployed its patent-pending AI music detection tool in January 2025, achieving what the company reports as 99.8% accuracy. By June 2025, Deezer became the first major streaming service to explicitly tag AI-generated content. The technology has already identified over 13.4 million AI tracks across the platform&#8217;s catalog from 2025 alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.markets\/embed\/market\/will-finland-win-eurovision-2026\" width=\"100%\" height=\"415px\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:0px;overflow:hidden;line-height:0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8220;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&#8217;s rights and promote transparency for fans,&#8221; said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier, in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Starting Monday, the platform also stopped storing high-resolution versions of AI-generated tracks, creating another technical distinction between artificial and human-created content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Even as platforms grapple with detection, listeners struggle to identify artificial music. A blind study commissioned by Deezer surveyed 9,000 participants across eight countries and found 97% could not distinguish between AI-generated and human-created tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Despite this inability to detect artificial content by ear, 80% of respondents agreed that fully AI-generated music should carry clear labels for transparency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Paris-based platform&#8217;s data disclosure represents the music industry&#8217;s most transparent accounting of how generative AI tools have infiltrated streaming services. While competitors have remained largely silent on AI upload volumes, Deezer has positioned itself as the first major service to both tag AI content and share concrete metrics on the phenomenon&#8217;s scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The platform&#8217;s fraud detection efforts align with broader industry concerns about AI-generated content manipulation. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Decrypt<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> previously reported on a man who <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/361940\/man-pleads-guilty-ai-generate-8-million-fraudulent-streaming-music-royalties\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">pleaded guilty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> in September to using AI music in an $8 million streaming fraud scheme. Federal prosecutors also charged an AI music maker in a <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/248161\/music-for-bots-doj-fake-ai-songs-streaming\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">separate $10 million fraud case<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> involving artificial streams of bot-generated songs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4 border-b border-decryptGridline\">\n<div class=\"text-start p-8 md:py-12 md:px-12 max-w-prose relative\"><span class=\"border-t-4 border-l-4 w-4 h-4 md:border-t-[6px] md:border-l-[6px] md:w-6 md:h-6 border-decryptPurple dark:border-decryptNeon gg-dark:border-cc-pink-2 absolute top-4 left-4 md:top-6 md:left-6\"\/><span class=\"border-t-4 border-l-4 w-4 h-4 md:border-t-[6px] md:border-l-[6px] md:w-6 md:h-6 border-decryptPurple dark:border-decryptNeon gg-dark:border-cc-pink-2 absolute rotate-180 bottom-4 right-4 md:bottom-6 md:right-6\"\/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"font-akzidenz-grotesk font-bold text-xl md:text-3xl md:text-center gg-dark:text-white\">Daily Debrief<!-- --> Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p>Start every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features, a podcast, videos and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source decrypt.co \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded daily to Deezer&#8217;s platform, the firm said. The streaming service receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day, totaling over 2 million each month. 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