In 2025, Ukrainian artists released 21,520 tracks on Spotify. Of these, more than 5,300 were generated by AI, says Oleksiy Efimenko, creator of the NUAM (New UA Music) service, which researches Ukrainian music. For comparison, in 2024, his service found only 2,390 tracks authored by artificial intelligence.

The reason for this boom is the ease of creating songs. It can take only a few minutes, says LIGA.Tech, the author of such music. A subscription to the generation service costs $10, and a track can bring in many times more. However, it all depends on the number of listens.

How much money generated music can bring to authors and whether it will replace traditional music – read in the text.

How NUAM noticed the generated tracks

NUAM is an aggregator of Ukrainian tracks that automatically tracks new releases on a daily basis. The database contains 14,000 artists. To determine the exact genre of the song and whether it was generated by AI, Oleksiy Efimenko listens to the tracks himself.

AI tracks started to be noticed last year when the aggregator found musicians who released several debut albums at once. The most popular music creation service is Suno. Having studied its work, Efimenko names the characteristic features of the generated tracks:

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