AI detected in 40 per cent of music released in July 2026, study reveals

AI was detected in almost 40 per cent of music released worldwide last month, according to a new study.

As Mixmag reports, the findings were published by the online music marketplace SubmitHub .

The platform’s AI detector analysed more than a million releases from July, and discovered that 23.2 per cent were fully generated by artificial intelligence.

Read More: In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ordinary It also found that 15.3 per cent featured signs of AI-generated audio that had been “modified or processed” by humans.

This means that 38.5 per cent of all music released last month was made with the involvement of AI to some degree.

SubmitHub, which lets users submit music to playlists and blogs, launched its AI detection tool, SH Labs , earlier this summer.

The function aims to highlight a “growing disclosure problem” with artificial intelligence in music.

Jason Grishkoff, SubmitHub founder, explained: “I think the path forward for AI music is disclosure.

People should be able to decide for themselves whether they want to engage with AI-generated music.

“Our job is to give them enough information to make that choice.” View this post on Instagram The AI detection tool is also being used by the likes of Bandcamp and Traxsource, as well as GEMA.

The latter is a performance rights organisation that won a landmark court case against AI music generator platform Suno last month.

Bandcamp banned all AI-created music at the start of this year, saying: “We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated.” Beatport followed suit just last week , promising “greater transparency” for listeners while “protecting human creativity”.

Earlier in the summer, TIDAL shared a new policy to crack down on AI-created music .

The online service confirmed that it would not be paying royalties to any material made entirely by artificial intelligence.