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

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 on 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 UK), 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. 81.5% of UK fans want AI music clearly labelled

The BPI surveyed more than 1,750 UK music consumers for its All About the Music 2025 yearbook. 81.5% said any music generated solely by AI should be clearly labelled, 78.5% said an artist's music or vocals should not be ingested by AI without permission, and 80.1% said human-made music was simply more valuable to them.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 labelling 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 (about £2.4m), 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 (about £1.94bn) 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 (around £197m) 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 (about £237m) in annual recurring revenue, up from roughly $200m 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. Suno paid plans run from about £8 to £24 per month

Suno's Pro tier costs $10 per month (about £8, or £6 if billed annually) and includes 2,500 credits plus commercial-use rights. The Premier tier is $30 per month (about £24, or £19 annually) with 10,000 credits and access to Suno Studio, an AI-native digital audio workstation. Prices are billed in US dollars and your card issuer applies the conversion.¹⁷

The UK Picture: Copyright, Consultations and Protest

18. Over 1,000 UK musicians released a silent protest album

On 25 February 2025, more than 1,000 British artists including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox, Tori Amos, the Pet Shop Boys, Hans Zimmer and Imogen Heap released Is This What We Want?, an album of mostly silent recordings from empty studios. The track titles spell out a sentence: "The British Government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies." Profits go to the charity Help Musicians. The full UK backlash against AI music is covered in our companion piece.¹⁸

19. The UK AI Copyright Consultation drew over 11,500 responses

The UK Government's Copyright and AI consultation, which ran from 17 December 2024 to 25 February 2025, received around 11,500 submissions. About 10,112 came through the Citizen Space portal and another 1,400-plus by email. Few UK creative-industries consultations of recent years have triggered a response of this scale.¹⁹

20. 88% of online respondents backed licensing in all cases; just 3% backed opt-out

According to the government's December 2025 progress report, 88% of consultation respondents who answered online backed Option 1, requiring AI developers to license copyrighted works in every case. The government's originally preferred opt-out exception (Option 3) attracted only around 3% support. Ministers have since stepped back from the opt-out plan while they consult further.²⁰

21. House of Lords: AI poses a "clear and present danger" to creators

In March 2026 the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee published its report AI, Copyright and the Creative Industries. The committee, chaired by Baroness Keeley, called the uncredited use of copyrighted material to train AI models "a clear and present danger" to the UK's creative industries, which contributed £124 billion to the economy in 2023 versus £12 billion from the AI sector in 2024.²¹

22. 66% of UK music creators say AI threatens their career

UK Music's This Is Music 2025 report found that 66% of artists, performers, writers and producers surveyed agreed that "AI poses a threat to my career as a creator". Only 13% disagreed and 21% sat on the fence. The trade body has called for statutory transparency obligations on AI developers and licensing as the default.²²

23. UK music sector worth a record £8 billion in 2024

The same UK Music report puts the music industry's contribution to the UK economy at a record £8 billion in Gross Value Added in 2024, up 5% on the year. Recorded music revenues hit £1.49 billion (BPI), streaming alone passed £1 billion for the first time, and exports reached £794m. These are the numbers the BPI and UK Music argue are at stake in the AI copyright debate.²³

The Lawsuits, Licensing Deals and Market Outlook

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

A 2024 PMP Strategy report commissioned by global collecting societies (including CISAC) projects the world market for generative AI music services to grow from about $300 million in 2023 to $3.1 billion (about £2.45bn) by 2028, alongside Suno's November 2025 Warner Music settlement and Universal Music Group's October 2025 settlement with rival Udio. Sony is the only major label still in court against both generators, with a pivotal US fair-use ruling expected in 2026 that will shape the wider music industry.²⁴