The Escalating Volume of AI Music

Deezer has kept a close eye on the synthetic music boom since early 2025, and the numbers are staggering. In January 2025, AI tracks made up a modest 10% of daily volume, or roughly 10,000 songs. By April of this year, that figure exploded to 75,000 tracks, eating up 44% of daily additions.

Now, the platform has officially crossed the 50% threshold.

More machines are uploading music than humans.

New Takedown and Fraud Policies

Rather than drown in the synthetic spam, Deezer is actively purging its database. The platform will now permanently delete AI-generated tracks that haven't registered a single stream in the past six months. It is also going after the synthetic tracks used in bot farms to siphon off royalty payouts.

Detection Tech and Industry Fragmentation

The rest of the music business still can't agree on what to do with this mess. Bandcamp just outright bans AI tracks, and Tidal strips them of monetization entirely. Meanwhile, Apple Music crosses its fingers with a voluntary tagging system, and Spotify leans on its own maze of usage policies.

Deezer actually offered this detection tech to rival platforms back in January.

But last month, things got delightfully petty. Deezer released a public tool that actively sifts through competitor playlists on Spotify and Apple Music just to out their hidden AI-generated tracks. It’s a beautifully aggressive move, proving Deezer isn't just cleaning its own house—it wants everyone to know exactly how much synthetic sludge is sitting next door.