Musician / Performing Artist

Musicians and singers perform live and make recordings. AI can now make whole songs from a short text prompt, vocals included, and the volume is enormous. Deezer, a music streaming service that detects and labels AI music, reported in July 2026 that about 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks were being uploaded to it every day, more than half of all new uploads at peak. In a survey of 9,000 people that Deezer commissioned from Ipsos in 2025, 97% could not tell AI songs from human-made ones in a blind test. The big record labels have started licensing AI instead of only suing: by the end of 2025, Universal and Warner had licensing deals with the AI music company Udio, and Warner had settled with Suno, while other lawsuits continued.

But listeners are not choosing AI music yet. On Deezer, fully AI-generated tracks drew only 1% to 3% of all streams, and up to 85% of those plays were fake. Deezer removes fake plays from the money it pays out, so they do not cut what human artists earn there. A Spotify executive told Billboard that "consumption of AI-generated music is insanely low." Performing in a room is also something AI cannot do: a 2025 Microsoft Research study of how much of each job's tasks AI chatbots can help with ranked musicians and singers 569th of 785 jobs. BLS projects little or no change in musician jobs from 2025 to 2035, with about 17,400 openings a year; it expects interest in live music to support demand, while falling attendance at classical concerts and church holds it back.

This stays at 3. The pressure is real where music is sold as a product rather than performed: background and library music, ads, and the recordings a new artist needs to get noticed among a flood of AI uploads. A 2024 study for CISAC, the global confederation of songwriters' and composers' societies, projected that 24% of music creators' revenues are at risk from AI by 2028. That is a forecast from a group that represents creators, so treat it as a warning, not a count. Music producers, whose work is mostly making recordings, score 4.

What would change this score. If AI tracks start winning a real share of listening on streaming services, or venues and churches start using AI music instead of hiring players, this goes to 4. If AI music stays a flood of uploads that few people hear, it could ease to 2.