# Deezer Is Drowning in 75,000 Robot Songs a Day — And 85% Are Faking Their Own Plays **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** earn-money, tips-tricks, ai, news, content-creation\ **Created:** [July 4, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/deezer-is-drowning-in-75-000-robot-songs-a-day-and-85-are-faking-their-own-plays/323610 "2026-07-04T16:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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# 🎵 Deezer Is Drowning in 75,000 Robot Songs a Day — And 85% Are Faking Their Own Plays _Nearly half of all new music hitting one big streaming app was made by a machine. And most of those “listens”? Bots pretending to be you._ **75,000 AI songs uploaded PER DAY. That’s 44% of everything new. 2 million+ a month. And 85% of their plays got flagged as straight-up fraud.** OKAY SO the music app Deezer just opened the books on something wild, and honestly it says way more about where the internet is heading than about music. [Full breakdown on TechCrunch here.](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/) ![Robot making music](https://media.giphy.com/media/MPUmb4mZmfOM6rJBX5/giphy.gif) WAIT. Let me back up, because when I read this I actually said “no chance” out loud (my roommate was concerned). [Deezer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deezer) is basically a Spotify competitor — a big app where you stream music. They just admitted that **44% of every new song getting uploaded to them is made by AI.** Not sung by a person. Not played on a real guitar. Just typed into a robot (“make me a sad country song about a truck”) and boom, it spits out a finished track. Around **75,000 of these a day.** Over 2 million a month. And here’s the part that made me lose it: **85% of the plays those AI songs get are fake.** Bots. Fake accounts pressing play over and over to farm money. Deezer caught it and cut off the cash. Wild. > **🧩 Dumb Mode Dictionary (read this first, takes 20 seconds)** > > | Word people throw around | What it actually means | > | --- | --- | > | **AI-generated music** | A robot writes and “performs” the whole song. You type a sentence, it makes a track. No humans, no instruments. | > | **Streaming platform** | An app like Deezer/Spotify where you play music. Artists get paid a tiny bit every time someone listens. | > | **Stream farming / fraud** | Using fake accounts or bots to press “play” thousands of times so you collect money for listens that never really happened. | > | **Demonetized** | The platform caught the fakeness and said “nope, you get $0 for those plays.” | > | **Royalty pool** | The big pot of money split between all artists. More songs = your slice gets thinner. | > | **AI tagging/detection** | A tool that sniffs out “hey, a robot made this” and slaps a label on it. | > **📰 How we got here (the numbers are climbing scary fast)** > > This didn’t happen overnight — it’s a rocket ship. Straight from [Deezer’s own newsroom post](https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-represent-44-of-new-uploaded-music/): > > - **Jan 2025:** ~10,000 AI tracks a day > - **Sept 2025:** ~30,000 a day > - **Nov 2025:** ~50,000 a day > - **Jan 2026:** ~60,000 a day > - **Now:** ~ **75,000 a day** — 44% of ALL new uploads > > Deezer was the first app to start slapping “made by AI” labels on tracks back in June 2025. In one year they tagged **13.4 million** robot songs. Thirteen. Million. [Music Business Worldwide has the deep dive](https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/75000-ai-generated-tracks-now-flood-deezer-daily-representing-44-of-all-new-music-uploaded-to-the-platform-says-streamer/). > **💰 The receipts (why anyone bothers making 75k robot songs)** > > Here’s the money logic, dead simple: > > - A streaming app pays roughly a fraction of a cent per play. > - One song making pennies = pointless. > - But **100,000 robot songs** , each getting a few bot-plays a day? Now you’re skimming real money off the top. > - It costs basically **$0 and 10 seconds** to make each AI song. So the math is: flood the zone, farm fake plays, cash out. > > That’s the scam. And it’s why 85% of AI streams got flagged as fraud — the songs weren’t made for _people_, they were made for _bots to play_. [Deezer even built a tool that spots AI music on OTHER apps now](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/deezers-new-tool-can-identify-ai-music-from-spotify-apple-music-and-others/) (Spotify, Apple Music), so this is industry-wide. > **🗣️ What the timeline's saying** > > - **Real musicians:** furious. Every robot song thins out the money pool they share. > - **The “so what” crowd:** “if only 1-3% of actual listening is AI, who cares?” (Fair — most humans aren’t choosing robot songs on purpose.) > - **The hustlers:** already reverse-engineering which genres the bots hide in (lo-fi, sleep sounds, white noise, ambient — stuff nobody listens closely to). > - **The realists:** this is the [same fake-engagement game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_fraud) that broke YouTube and Instagram, just wearing headphones now. > > The [Hacker News thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835928) got heated — worth a scroll if you like watching engineers argue. > **🧠 The bigger thing this quietly proves** > > Forget music for a sec. The real lesson: > > **When making a thing costs zero, the internet fills up with that thing until “real” becomes the rare, valuable part.** > > Robot songs are just the first flood because music is easy to fake and pays per-play. Next it’s AI podcasts, AI product reviews, AI “news” sites. The winners of the next few years aren’t the people making the flood — it’s the people who can [prove they’re human](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_personhood), or the people who build the filters that catch the fakes. Keep that in your back pocket. #### Cool. Half the new songs are robots and the bots are clapping for themselves… Now What the Hell Do We Do? (ง •̀\_•́)ง ![Cassette tape spinning](https://media.giphy.com/media/l2SpKdrBxH8jp9mhy/giphy.gif) Look — I’m not telling you to go farm fake plays (that’s the thing getting demonetized and banned, dummy). The money is in the _reaction_ to the flood, not the flood itself. Here’s where a broke 22-year-old with a laptop actually wins: > **🕳️ The Human Stamp Hustle** > > Every app is now scrambling to prove which artists are actually _people_ (Spotify literally [just rolled out “verified human” badges](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/spotify-introduces-verified-artist-badges-to-help-distinguish-humans-from-ai/)). Small musicians are confused and scared. Be the person who sets up their “proof I’m real” kit — behind-the-scenes studio clips, verified profiles, signed uploads — as a done-for-you package. > > 🧠 _Example:_ A 24-year-old in Lagos, Nigeria noticed local Afrobeat artists getting their real songs wrongly flagged as AI. He started a $40 service on [Fiverr](https://www.fiverr.com) setting up their verification + filming a 15-second “here’s me recording it” proof clip. Word spread in one WhatsApp group. ~$900/month, part time. > > > 📈 **Timeline:** First paying client in ~1 week. Stays good until the apps make verification one-click easy (maybe 6-9 months) — ride it now. > **📡 The Fraud-Radar Snitch (grey-hat, totally legal)** > > Deezer says 85% of AI plays are fraud. That means labels, distributors, and indie artists are TERRIFIED of accidentally paying for fake streams. Build a simple report: pull a song’s public play stats, flag the tells of bot-farming (weird 3am spikes, all-plays-no-saves, one country only), sell it as a “is your money going to bots?” audit. > > 🧠 _Example:_ A 21-year-old data nerd in Manila made a Google Sheet template that eyeballs [public streaming analytics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media#Analytics) for fraud patterns. Sells the template + a 30-min walkthrough call to small labels for $75 a pop on [Gumroad](https://gumroad.com). No coding degree, just pattern-spotting. > > > 📈 **Timeline:** First sale within days if you post it in music-producer Discords. Patch window: until the apps’ own fraud dashboards get good — cash in fast. > **🎣 Bait the Overwhelmed (the niche cheat-sheet play)** > > When a new mess appears, the FIRST clear “how do I deal with this” guide becomes the thing everyone links to. Nobody’s written the plain-English “How indie artists survive the AI flood” playbook yet. Write it once. Let Google feed you readers forever. > > 🧠 _Example:_ A bedroom producer in Poland wrote a free 12-page guide “Don’t Get Demonetized: The 2026 Indie Upload Rules” and put it on a one-page site. Free guide pulls people in, a $9 “checklist + templates” pack cashes them out. This is the classic [content-to-product funnel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_funnel) — [Notion](https://www.notion.so) or [Carrd](https://carrd.co) is all you need to build it. > > > 📈 **Timeline:** Traffic builds over 4-8 weeks (SEO is slow but sticky). First-mover on the topic = you own the search term for a year+. > **🪟 The Sound-Effect Loophole (before everyone catches on)** > > Here’s a legit angle hiding in plain sight: apps are punishing AI _music_, but real creators desperately need cheap, cleared background sounds — lo-fi loops, rain, ambient beds for videos and podcasts. AI is genuinely GREAT at that boring-but-needed stuff, and it’s not the fraud they’re hunting. Make packs of AI-generated background audio, sell them to video editors who don’t want copyright headaches. > > 🧠 _Example:_ A student in Vietnam used [Suno](https://suno.com) to generate 50 royalty-free “coffee shop ambient” loops, bundled them, and sells the pack to YouTubers on Gumroad for $12. He’s transparent it’s AI — that’s the _selling point_ (no copyright claims). Repeat buyers every month. > > > 📈 **Timeline:** First bundle sale in ~2 weeks. Market gets crowded in ~4-6 months, so build a mailing list early and keep the buyers. > **🔍 The Real-Ear Curator (be the taste a robot can't fake)** > > Machines can make 75,000 songs a day but they can’t have _taste_. Humans are already exhausted sifting robot slop to find real gems. Become the trusted human filter: a tiny weekly playlist or newsletter of “100% human-made, hand-picked” tracks in one specific vibe. People pay for a curator they trust when everything else is noise. > > 🧠 _Example:_ A 23-year-old in Brazil runs a “Verified Humans Only” indie playlist on a [Spotify for Artists](https://artists.spotify.com) profile + a free [Substack](https://substack.com). Artists pay a small fee to be _considered_ (not guaranteed) for the list; listeners get a trusted source. ~$600/month from submission fees alone, growing. > > > 📈 **Timeline:** Takes ~1 month to hit enough followers that artists want in. Once you’re the trusted name in your niche, it compounds for years. > **🛠️ Follow-Up Actions** > > | If you want to… | Do this today | > | --- | --- | > | Understand the fraud scale | Read the [TechCrunch report](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/) | > | See who’s fighting AI music | Check [Spotify’s human badges](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/spotify-introduces-verified-artist-badges-to-help-distinguish-humans-from-ai/) | > | Make legit AI background audio | Play with [Suno](https://suno.com) | > | Launch a guide/product for $0 | Spin up a page on [Carrd](https://carrd.co) or [Gumroad](https://gumroad.com) | > | Sell a service fast | List it on [Fiverr](https://www.fiverr.com) | **⚡ Quick Hits** | You Want | You Do | | --- | --- | | 🤖 Grasp the flood | 75k AI songs/day, 44% of new uploads — [read it](https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-represent-44-of-new-uploaded-music/) | | 💰 Spot the scam | 85% of AI plays = bot fraud, demonetized | | 🎧 Sell “real human” proof | Package verification for scared indie artists | | 🔊 Use AI the legal way | Make cleared background audio on [Suno](https://suno.com) | | 🔍 Be the filter | Curate a human-only playlist people trust | _When making stuff costs nothing, “made by a real person” becomes the luxury item. Sell that._