CITY JAM founder Pat Villaceran says the race in AI music has come down to speed and volume, and that this leaves one input untouched: original sound from human creators. The company said that drawing that sound out of artists is as much an art as a science, and that it is the craft behind INDUSTRY.AIFF, a program that takes a label's signed but unfinished artists to catalog-ready work and remains involved as those records are launched.
Supply has moved quickly. Luminate's 2025 Year-End Music Report counted 106,000 tracks a day arriving at streaming services in 2025, 7% more than the 99,000 a day in 2024. Of 253 million audio tracks that year, 120.5 million were played ten times or fewer, close to half.
A growing share of that supply is not made by people. On Deezer, fully AI-generated tracks reached almost 75,000 a day in April 2026, roughly 44% of daily uploads, and passed half of new uploads at a peak in June 2026. On the same service, AI tracks were 1% to 3% of streams, and up to 85% of those streams were fraudulent in 2025, so the growth sits in uploads rather than in listening.
The release also points to the CISAC and PMP Strategy study, which projects that generative AI could put 24% of music creators' revenues at risk in 2028. The US Copyright Office inquiry into music streaming fraud names dilution of the royalty revenue pool as the primary harm and asks which industry practices may be inadvertently contributing to streaming fraud; initial comments are due November 23, 2026, and replies December 21, 2026.
CITY JAM says detection and enforcement belong to regulators and the streaming services, while its own work sits earlier, in the stretch between an artist signing and a finished record. INDUSTRY.AIFF forms part of an AI-era accelerator and incubator model for music that Villaceran launched on October 9, 2026, beginning with record labels. Artists get support of the kind an accelerator gives startup founders, with education and professional development alongside community and live jam sessions, collaborations and commercial opportunities, and technology.
