Non-existent AI artists raking in millions from Spotify and Deezer

New analysis reveals that AI-generated musicians are dominating streaming platforms, with the top synthetic artists earning up to four times the average annual income of a British worker.

This revelation comes as industry fears escalate with three-quarters of music producers expressing concern that AI technology could soon replace human creators entirely.

The investigation, commissioned by SeatPick, applied the average cost-per-stream royalty rate (estimated between $$0.003$ and $$0.0084$) to the $2025$ stream counts of leading AI artists to calculate their projected Spotify earnings. The results highlight the immediate financial disruption facing the music industry.

Topping the charts is the artist Blow Records, which released its first track just this past June. Despite their late start, the AI entity is estimated to have earned a staggering £123,176 so far this year from Spotify alone. Their track ‘Predador de Perereca’ recently went viral on TikTok, propelling them to over $45$ million streams and nearly $3$ million average monthly listeners—more than established human acts like Rizzle Kicks.

Other high earners include Biscuit Beats, estimated at £67,891 from $2025$ streams, and Xania Monet at £50,021, an AI-powered R&B singer who has already secured a multimillion-dollar record deal and charted on Billboard.

The sheer volume of new synthetic music is also changing the landscape of music consumption. Deezer reported that nearly a third of all new tracks uploaded daily to its platform are now AI-generated, confirming the accelerating speed at which machine learning is producing content.

The findings underscore a looming financial challenge for emerging human artists, as automated creators with high-volume, low-effort output capture substantial royalty revenue. This shift prompts urgent questions about intellectual property, fair compensation and the future role of human creativity in the digital music ecosystem.

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