This week, Music Business Worldwide published Jorge Brea’s Op-Ed focusing on how the global music business must come together to enforce standardized policies around AI music.
Generative AI has unleashed a tidal wave of new music onto streaming platforms. By some estimates, more than 100,000 tracks are uploaded daily, a number increasingly inflated by AI-generated songs. Deezer reports receiving 75,000 fully AI-created tracks per day, with 85% of streams on those tracks flagged as fraudulent.
– Jorge Brea, Music Business Worldwide
The music industry now faces an unprecedented content glut. Some AI tools are enabling genuine creative experimentation, while others are producing mass-generated tracks designed to exploit streaming systems. While high-profile lawsuits between record labels and AI startups dominate headlines, the immediate challenge is more practical: how streaming platforms and distributors should manage the flood of AI-generated music already arriving every day.