AI artists that don’t exist are taking over Spotify and earning 4x more than the average Brit
AI-generated musicians are garnering millions of streams of Spotify, earning up to four times more than the average Brit. As AI continues to reshape the industry, three-quarters of music producers fear AI could soon replace human creators.
Deezer even revealed that nearly a third of new tracks uploaded daily are AI-generated.
Interested in discovering just how much Spotify could be paying them, SeatPick applied the average cost-per-stream rate (between $0.003 – $0.0084) to each AI-generated artist’s streams from their 2025 releases to calculate their Spotify earnings from this year so far.
Which AI-generated artist earns more than most human artists?
| AI Artist | 2025 Release Streams | Average Monthly Listeners | Spotify Royalty Earnings | |
| 1 | Blow Records | 45,285,327 | 2,830,449 | £123,176.09 |
| 2 | Biscuit Beats | 24,959,985 | 255,418 | £67,891.16 |
| 3 | Xania Monet | 18,390,195 | 1,012,957 | £50,021.33 |
| 4 | Beats By AI | 18,358,821 | 398,633 | £49,935.99 |
| 5 | The Velvet Sundown | 14,271,931 | 268,217 | £38,819.65 |
| 6 | Bleeding Verse | 14,097,121 | 907,188 | £38,344.17 |
| 7 | Aventhis | 12,745,106 | 795,832 | £34,666.69 |
| 8 | Nick Hustles | 8,628,746 | 366,499 | £23,470.19 |
| 9 | The Devil Inside | 8,060,401 | 304,877 | £21,924.29 |
| 10 | Obscurest Vinyl | 5,557,709 | 82,190 | £15,116.97 |
Despite only releasing their first track on June 30th, 2025, BLOW RECORDS is the highest-earning AI-generated artist on Spotify, according to SeatPick’s analysis. Calculating the number of streams and average royalty rate, they’re estimated to have earned £123,176 so far this year.
Their biggest hit is ‘Predador de Perereca’, which amassed 1.6 million TikTok videos under the sound after recently going viral. With 2,830,449 average monthly listeners and more than 45 million streams on their 2025 tracks, they’ve also amassed 200,000 followers on Instagram. To put their fame into perspective, they have more monthly listeners on average than Rizzle Kicks (1,019,000).
‘Predador de Perereca’ / Copyright: BLOW RECORDS
The second-highest-earning AI-artist on Spotify is Biscuit Beats, earning an estimated £67,891 from their 2025 releases so far. Known for their explicit, parody-style songs, this AI country musician’s most listened to song amassed over 4 million listens on the platform, while their total listens for 2025 reach 24,959,000.
Ranking third, Xania Monet recently signed a multimillion-dollar record deal with Hallwood Media and charted on Billboard. This AI-powered R&B singer earned an estimated £50,021 from Spotify alone, with their breakout single “How Was I Supposed to Know?” climbing into Billboard’s R&B Digital Song sales top 10. She has more monthly listeners than Pixie Lott, Plan B and Professor Green, to name a few.
In fourth is Beats by AI, which went viral on TikTok earlier this year for their track ‘Only Thing I Love’ going viral on TikTok in June. Amassing more than 18 million streams from their 2025 releases, they’re estimated to have earned £49,935.
In fifth is AI-band Velvet Sundown, earning an estimated £38,819 from their 2025 songs. Controversially, they released two albums before admitting their music, images and backstory were created by AI. Nevertheless, they have more than 14 million total Spotify streams and 268,000 monthly listeners.
Copyright: The Velvet Sundown – Facebook
Rounding out the top 10 are Bleeding Verse, with hundreds of fans citing their disappointment once they found out on Reddit, Aventhis, Nick Hustles, The Devil Inside, and Obscurest Vinyl.
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Methodology
- SeatPick collected a list of AI-generated artists from news publications, like NME and Forbes, in addition to searching Spotify for playlists related to AI artists and their suggested similar artists. They analysed 20 AI-generated artists with more than 20,000 monthly listeners to create their final list.
- They then manually calculated the total number of streams from each AI-generated artist’s music released in 2025 so far (data collected on 13.10.2025). They collected the average monthly listeners from Spotify’s artist page.
- SeatPick then utilised Streaming Calculator’s Music Royalty Calculator to estimate each AI-generated artist’s earnings from their 2025 releases. This figure is based on the normal streaming rate, based on the AI-artists owning 100% of royalties. Spotify pays between $0.003 and $0.0084 per stream. This figure depends on the listener’s location, song popularity and other factors. This calculator uses $0.00348 as the rate per stream on Spotify; therefore, the actual earnings may be higher.
- To create the final ranking, they ordered the AI-generated artists earning the most on Spotify from most to least.
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