We are the music makers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/how-streaming-royalties-are-calculated How streaming royalties are calculated: pro-rata pools, the 1,000-stream threshold and artist-centric models https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/how-streaming-royalties-are-calculated There is no per-stream rate. Streaming services pool their net revenue each month and split it by share of streams, and two newer rules change who gets into that split: Spotify ignores tracks under 1,000 streams a year, and Deezer weights streams from established artists and active fans. Here is the whole chain, step by step, as the services describe it on 24 Oct 2026. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers royaltiesstreamingdistributionspotifydeezer https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/deezer-ai-toggle-fraud-problem Deezer's AI kill switch is a search filter. Its own numbers say the bigger problem is fraud https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/deezer-ai-toggle-fraud-problem Deezer will let listeners hide fully AI-generated music from search before the end of 2026. Its own figures matter more than the toggle. Deezer receives nearly 90,000 fully AI tracks a day, yet they draw only 1-3% of streams, and up to 85% of those streams in 2025 were fraudulent. For human artists, the fix that counts is in the payout system, not the search bar. Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aideezerstreamingstreaming-fraudai-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/ai-music-detectors-not-proof-artifactbench-benchmark AI music detectors are not proof: what a benchmark of eight of them found https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/ai-music-detectors-not-proof-artifactbench-benchmark Intrect tested eight public AI music detectors on the same 2,104 files. The public Deezer research model flagged 13% of real tracks and caught 64.6% of AI ones, and two detectors flagged more than two-thirds of real music as AI. Vendors advertise 99%. Here is how to read the gap, and what to do if a score lands on your release. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiai-musicai-detectiondeezerbenchmarks https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/03/deezer-artist-centric-model-fy25-who-gains Deezer turned a profit. Here is how its artist-centric model moves the money, and who it moves it from https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/03/deezer-artist-centric-model-fy25-who-gains Deezer reported €8.5 million of net income for 2025, which it calls its first positive net income, and credits its artist-centric payment model among its strengths. The model weights streams by who the artist is and how the fan found the track. We explain the rules, who gains and who loses, and why the profit says little about whether artists are better off. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industrydeezerroyaltiesstreamingartist-centric