AI music tools jump 651% revenue

The latest International Music Summit report says AI music and stem-separation tools stopped being niche in 2025 and became a real consumer business. (internationalmusicsummit.com) (beatportal.com) IMS and MIDiA Research said those tools generated $333 million in revenue in 2025, up 651% from 2023, with 63 million monthly active users. The figures were presented at IMS Ibiza on April 21. (internationalmusicsummit.com) (beatportal.com) The category includes generative tools that make songs from prompts and stem-separation software that splits a finished track into parts like vocals, drums, and bass. Those products now sit inside the same creator economy as digital audio workstations, sample packs, and plug-ins. (beatportal.com) (attackmagazine.com) The jump comes as the broader music business is still growing, but more slowly and with more pressure on streaming economics. IMS said the global electronic music industry reached $15.1 billion in 2025, up 7% year over year. (internationalmusicsummit.com) (djmag.com) At the same time, streaming services are dealing with a flood of machine-made tracks. Deezer said on April 20 that it now receives almost 75,000 AI-generated songs a day, about 44% of all daily uploads. (newsroom-deezer.com) (techcrunch.com) Deezer said listening to those tracks is still low, at 1% to 3% of total streams, and said 85% of streams to AI tracks are flagged as fraudulent and demonetized. The company also said it removes AI tracks from recommendations and editorial playlists. (newsroom-deezer.com) (techcrunch.com) Artists and labels are pushing a second argument: not just oversupply, but impersonation. Time reported in March that Sony Music had asked for more than 135,000 AI songs imitating its artists to be removed, while singer-songwriter Benedict Cork said an unfinished song of his was cloned and uploaded by someone else. (time.com) The technology is spreading because it lowers the skill and time needed to make a usable track. Global News listed services such as Suno, Google Magenta, Loudly, and Mubert that can turn text prompts into songs in seconds. (globalnews.ca) The split inside the industry is now clearer than the numbers alone. Some musicians and producers use AI as a drafting tool, while streamers and rights holders are building labels, filters, and takedown systems to keep synthetic music from overwhelming discovery and payouts. (time.com) (newsroom-deezer.com) For now, the cleanest way to read the market is this: AI music tools are selling fast, and platforms are racing to contain what those same tools are producing at scale. (internationalmusicsummit.com) (newsroom-deezer.com)