Beatport is now banning fully AI-generated songs

Beatport has announced plans to ban songs that are fully or majority generated by AI.

READ MORE: In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ordinary The online music store and streaming platform confirmed the changes in a new update to its policy .

With the new rules, it will be labelling songs on the site that have been made with AI assistance, and removing tracks that were made predominantly or fully by artificial intelligence.

For those tracks rejected from the streaming platform due to violations with the new AI policy, the rights holders will be notified directly.

The changes come following an updated partnership with detection specialist Beatdapp.

In the expanded collaboration, the platform will use enhanced technology, systems and processes to detect and identify automated music.

In the Beatport policy, it states that songs made with “AI assistance will still be accepted”, but only if the finished track “remains majority human-made”.

Those songs will be accepted, but “tagged during ingestion, giving Beatport’s curation team a clearer picture of what it is reviewing and featuring.” Beatport Draws a Line on AI Music https://t.co/7WARDd3XDC #Beatport pic.twitter.com/7BNYZsjYhx — DJ Network Melbourne (@DJNetMelbourne) August 17, 2026 Speaking about the new changes, Beatport CEO, Matt Gralen shared: “Beatport exists to serve DJs and empower artists and labels.

This means partnering with our community and providing confidence in what our platform offers.

“While new production techniques have driven electronic music forward since the beginning, there is a difference between a tool that assists human creation and a system that replaces it entirely.

Beatport is built on the former.” Co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Batey also shared that the expanded partnership with Beatdapp will allow for “greater transparency” for listeners while still “protecting human creativity”.

In the statement from Beatport, announcing the changes, the platform shared that the decision to crack down on fully AI-generated music was spearheaded because it reflects the views of its users.

In a survey, they found that 77 per cent of users had a “firm preference for supporting human creators” and 60 per cent would refuse to listen to AI-generated songs.

Only eight per cent of users said they were open to playing AI music, and just 13 per cent said they would consider playing it, provided artists were properly compensated.