The number
Luminate, mid-September 2026: close to 150,000 tracks uploaded every day. That is the new floor. Catalog already eats most listening. New music has to earn a seat.
Wanna plai?
150,000 songs a day. The pile is not the product.
Sep 18, 2026. Luminate’s CEO put the new number on the record. The old 100,000-a-day line is dead.
The flood
You are not competing with a song. You are competing with a hose.
Nearly 150,000 tracks a day now land on streaming services. Deezer has said fully AI can be more than half of new uploads at peak. Apple has said more than a third of monthly uploads look 100% AI. AI song apps mint millions of files that never even hit a store. Volume is free. Attention is not.
The mix
Fully AI is a large slice of the hose. That does not make Fully AI illegal to distribute. It makes silence expensive. Stores and charts now ask who made the centre of the recording.
The job
Finish the file. Tell us what a human did. Sign the split. Push the button. We curate and email. You do not spend the day pitching into a pile of 150,000.
What you do
- Tell us what a human did. No AI. AI-assisted. Fully AI. The field is how you leave the pile.
- We still deliver Fully AI even if a store will not pay. We do not invent a pay row.
- Do not buy fake streams to climb a hose. Boosts are real campaigns, and they are open to every artist. Charts ignore farms.
- Named act. Face. Split sheet. Human showrunner if a bot is in the loop. Faceless spam is the first thing a store drops.
- You do not pitch all day. We curate and email. You push a button.
Generation is cheap. The business is the moat. Own the packet. Disclose it. Deliver it. Make the next one.
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For artists who’d rather be making the next one than reading a distribution agreement.
The song is finished. Push the button.
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