This streaming music service says up to 85% of AI music streams are fakes

January 29, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Deezer, the Paris-based music streamer, is doing its best to detect and remove AI music from its library, with a focus on songs that are fraudulent (i.e. pretending to be something that they’re not).

The streamer has been tracking this for a while. A year ago, about 10,000 completely AI-generated tracks were uploaded to Deezer every day, 10% of the total daily upload. Today, they’re looking at 50,000 such tracks a day.

Deezer also says that AI tracks are responsible for “between 1-3%” of ALL streams. That’s up from 0.5% in September. Of those, “up to 85%” were frauds, played by bots and sending royalties to humans unknown.

The good news is that Deezer is getting very, very good at rooting out these tracks and deleting them. They’re willing to help other streamers, too.

Alan Cross

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