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By SOUNDSLANKA Team — November 7, 2026 Short answer: AI will not replace human musicians. It will split music in two: cheap, instant AI music for background listening and games, and scarcer human music for fans who care who made it. Creators who use AI as a tool and prove they are real will win. Here is the evidence. What did 2026 actually look like? In January 2025, Deezer received about 10,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day. By January 2026 it was past 60,000 a day. By April 2026 it was nearly 75,000 a day — roughly 44% of everything uploaded. By June 2026, at peak, it was nearly 90,000 a day, more than half of all new uploads. And yet almost nobody was listening. Those tracks were only 1% to 3% of streams on Deezer, up from about 0.5% in mid-2025. Deezer says up to 85% of the streams they did get in 2025 were fraudulent — bots and farms inflating numbers to chase royalties. In November 2025 an AI-generated song reached number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales...