Deezer: свыше 50% загружаемой музыки теперь ИИ, и большинство — стриминг-фрод

The French streaming service Deezer reported in July 2026 that in June 2026, more than 50% of all music uploaded to the platform was generated by artificial intelligence — for the first time in the service's history — and a significant share of such tracks is linked to streaming fraud.

How fast the flow of AI music is growing

The share of AI music on Deezer grew from around 10% in January 2025 to more than 50% in June 2026 — an increase of almost five times in a year and a half. Deezer began systematically tracking the share of AI-generated uploads in early 2025, and since then the curve has only gone up: from a thin trickle to a flow that now outweighs music recorded by humans.

• June 2026 — for the first time, more than 50% of Deezer uploads were created by AI
• January 2025 — the count started, when the share was around 10%
• An increase of about five times in a year and a half
• A significant share of AI uploads, according to Deezer, is linked to streaming fraud
• Deezer tags fully AI-generated albums with a special label

Why most of the tracks are fraud

Most of the uploaded AI music is created not for listeners but for streaming fraud — Deezer states this directly. The scheme is simple: generators like Suno and Udio churn out thousands of tracks in minutes, and bots inflate their play counts to siphon money from the shared royalty pool that streaming services split among rights holders. Every fake play is a share of payout taken away from real musicians.

"More than half of the music uploaded to

Deezer is now created by AI — and most of it is fraud," summarizes TheNextWeb.

What Deezer is doing about it

Since early 2025, Deezer has been using its own detection tool that tags fully AI-generated albums with a special label and excludes them from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists. The logic is simple: don't pay royalties for plays inflated by bots, and don't slip synthetic content to listeners disguised as live music. At the same time, Deezer does not ban AI music altogether — the service tries to separate honest creative experiments from mass fraud uploads created only to extract money.

What this means

The 50% threshold is a symbolic milestone: on a major music platform, machine-generated content now outnumbers human-made content. The main problem is not AI itself, but the economics of streaming, where fractions-of-a-cent payouts per play make industrial-scale inflation profitable. As long as the shared royalty pool is split "per play," fraudsters retain an incentive to flood the platform with AI tracks by the ton, and the share of synthetic content will keep growing.

Frequently asked questions

How much AI music is uploaded to Deezer?

According to Deezer, in June 2026 the share of AI-generated music exceeded 50% of all uploads for the first time. For comparison, in January 2025, when the service started counting, it was around 10%.

Why is AI music linked to streaming fraud?

Deezer states that most AI uploads are used for streaming fraud: bots inflate play counts for cheap synthetic tracks to siphon royalties from the shared payout pool at the expense of real artists.