AI Music Statistics: 44% of New Tracks Are AI-Generated

How Much New Music Is Already AI

1. 44% of all new songs on Deezer are AI-generated

In April 2026, nearly half of every freshly uploaded track on Deezer was created end to end by AI. Deezer is still the only major streaming service that automatically detects and labels AI music at scale, so its data is the clearest window we have into this trend.¹

2. About 75,000 AI tracks land on Deezer every day

That is the number of fully AI-generated songs the platform now logs daily. Six months earlier, the count sat near 50,000 per day. The flow has roughly doubled in well under a year.²

3. From 10% to 44% in just 15 months

The rise has been steep: 10% of new uploads in January 2025, 18% by April, 28% in September, 34% in November, and 44% by April 2026. Few content categories anywhere are growing this fast.³

4. More than 170,000 total tracks uploaded daily

If 75,000 AI tracks make up 44% of the new arrivals, the full inflow into Deezer is now over 170,000 songs per day, more than 60 million per year on a single mid-tier service.⁴

5. Up to 85% of AI streams are fraud

Most of the actual plays on AI tracks are not real human listening. Deezer reports that as much as 85% of streams on AI music are generated by bots and excluded from royalty payouts, since bad actors use AI as a low-cost factory to game the streaming economy.⁵

Can Anyone Still Tell the Difference?

6. 97% of listeners fail an AI music blind test

In a 2025 Deezer and Ipsos study of 9,000 people across eight countries (including the US), 97% could not reliably pick out fully AI-generated songs in a blind test. Listening alone is no longer enough to know where a track came from.⁶

7. 62% of US consumers say no thanks to AI music

Bain & Company surveyed several thousand Americans in 2025 and found that about 62% would not engage, or would be much less likely to engage, with music produced in whole or in part by AI. AI music drew the strongest pushback of any media category in the study.⁷

8. AI is still only about 1% of Spotify streams

Spotify itself describes AI music as a "de minimis level of engagement." A company spokesperson put AI-generated music and artists at roughly 1% of all streams and royalties on the platform in 2025, even as uploads exploded.⁸

9. 75 million AI spam tracks deleted from Spotify in a year

In late 2025 Spotify revealed it had purged more than 75 million "spammy" AI uploads over the prior 12 months, alongside new policies requiring AI labeling and stricter rules against mass duplicate uploads.⁹

AI Acts Crossing Into the Mainstream

10. The Velvet Sundown topped 1 million monthly listeners

In June 2025, the AI "psych rock" project The Velvet Sundown released two albums made with Suno and broke 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify within weeks. The creators later admitted the band was an art hoax.¹⁰

11. Peak near 1.5 million, then a crash to under 600,000

The Velvet Sundown peaked at almost 1.5 million monthly Spotify listeners in late July 2025, driven largely by press coverage of the controversy. By August, the count had collapsed to under 600,000, suggesting curiosity carries an AI band only briefly.¹¹

12. AI country act Breaking Rust hit 2.5 million monthly listeners

In November 2025, the AI-created project Breaking Rust topped the US Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart and reached around 2.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify, becoming the most prominent AI act yet inside a mainstream genre.¹²

13. Xania Monet signed an AI music record deal worth up to $3 million

Mississippi creator Talisha Jones built the AI R&B singer Xania Monet using Suno. In late 2025, Hallwood Media signed Monet to a multimillion dollar record deal reportedly worth up to $3 million, and her music landed inside the Billboard Adult R&B Airplay chart, a first for an AI artist.¹³

The Big AI Music Generators: Suno and Udio

14. Suno was valued at $2.45 billion in November 2025

The best known AI music generator closed a Series C round in November 2025 at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation. The Cambridge, Massachusetts company only launched its first public model in late 2023.¹⁴

15. $250 million raised in a single round

Menlo Ventures led that Series C with participation from Nvidia's venture arm, Lightspeed and Matrix, putting $250 million into Suno to scale its models and pay for licensing deals.¹⁵

16. 2 million paying subscribers and $300 million ARR

By February 2026, Suno CEO Mikey Shulman said the company had hit 2 million paying subscribers and $300 million in annual recurring revenue, up from roughly $200 million ARR only three months earlier.¹⁶

A large share of those subscribers are not professionals but private customers who need one song for one day. At weddings the two tend to go together: first the song, then the wedding speech.

17. 100 million users and 7 million songs created per day

Per its investor materials, Suno has been used by nearly 100 million people. Its users now generate about 7 million tracks per day, enough new audio to match Spotify's entire 100 million song catalog roughly every two weeks.¹⁷

18. Suno paid plans run $10 to $30 per month

Suno's Pro tier costs $10 per month (or $8 billed annually) and includes 2,500 credits plus commercial-use rights. The Premier tier is $30 per month (or $24 annually) with 10,000 credits and access to Suno Studio, an AI-native digital audio workstation.¹⁸

The Lawsuits and Licensing Deals

19. Suno settled with Warner Music in November 2025

Warner became the first major label to settle with Suno, signing a forward-looking license to train AI models on its sound recordings and partnering on a new generation of "licensed" Suno models for 2026. As part of the deal, Suno also acquired the live music platform Songkick from Warner.¹⁹

20. UMG settled with Udio and is co-building a new AI platform

Universal Music Group settled its copyright case with rival generator Udio in October 2025. The two sides agreed on licensing terms for UMG's recordings and publishing, and announced plans to launch a jointly built AI music platform in 2026 where UMG artists can opt in for compensation.²⁰

21. RIAA seeking up to $150,000 per infringed song

In June 2024 the RIAA, on behalf of UMG, Sony and Warner, sued both Suno and Udio for copyright infringement on the training data behind their models, seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 per song, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in total. Sony is still pursuing Suno in court.²¹

The Bigger Picture: Market Size and Risks

22. Generative AI music forecast to hit $3.1 billion by 2028

A 2024 PMP Strategy report commissioned by collecting societies projects the global market for generative AI music services to grow from about $300 million in 2023 to $3.1 billion by 2028, a small but fast moving slice of the wider music industry.²²

23. CISAC sees 24% of creators' revenue at risk by 2028

The same CISAC-backed study calculates that generative AI could cannibalize 24% of music creators' revenue by 2028, a cumulative loss of roughly $23 billion for music and audiovisual creators over five years if no policy guardrails arrive.²³

24. $10 million US AI streaming fraud case

In 2024, federal prosecutors charged North Carolina musician Michael Smith with the first criminal case ever brought over artificially inflated streaming, alleging he used AI-generated songs and bot accounts to pull more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music. He pleaded guilty in 2025.²⁴