I don’t know, if they get many listens, but 1½ weeks ago, this article made the rounds from Deezer, saying that they do get a ton of AI-generated uploads: https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/07/ai-music-exceeds-50-percent-daily-uploads-deezer/
Granted, this is definitely also a marketing piece for Deezer to talk about how great their AI detection is, but I also don’t think they would claim there to be more AI-generated songs than there really are, as they don’t gain much from lying here.
At this point, other streaming services are also actively trying to curb back AI-generated songs, since they mostly just take up extra storage space. We’ve had such a massive abundance of songs before already, that you really just needed good curation, not more of them.
In that sense, I do assume that the AI-generated music is not seeing as many listens as the uploaders may have hoped for. And maybe that also means that they do not hurt artists quite as much in the end.
I imagine, these uploaders just hope for one song to do well, to not be detected as AI-generated etc., and for that song to pay for dozens more generated songs.
I don’t know, if they get many listens, but 1½ weeks ago, this article made the rounds from Deezer, saying that they do get a ton of AI-generated uploads: https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/07/ai-music-exceeds-50-percent-daily-uploads-deezer/
Granted, this is definitely also a marketing piece for Deezer to talk about how great their AI detection is, but I also don’t think they would claim there to be more AI-generated songs than there really are, as they don’t gain much from lying here.
At this point, other streaming services are also actively trying to curb back AI-generated songs, since they mostly just take up extra storage space. We’ve had such a massive abundance of songs before already, that you really just needed good curation, not more of them.
In that sense, I do assume that the AI-generated music is not seeing as many listens as the uploaders may have hoped for. And maybe that also means that they do not hurt artists quite as much in the end.
I imagine, these uploaders just hope for one song to do well, to not be detected as AI-generated etc., and for that song to pay for dozens more generated songs.