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SlopTracker.org has emerged as a tool to track the impact AI artists are having on the streaming economy—especially the Spotify royalty pool.

The website meticulously tracks AI-generated artists on Spotify, quantifying the royalties that these artists divert from human creators through a data-driven lens. By analyzing patterns, the tracker can identify pure AI music with 99.9% accuracy, though tracks processed with AI present greater challenges to identify.

Estimates suggest that 28% of Spotify’s new uploads stem from AI sources, with SlopTracker uncovering 50 such artists in just one hour of scrutiny. The scale of AI uploads suggests there’s a vast hidden ecosystem of AI artists uploading their music to Spotify. SlopTracker’s calculations offer stark insights into the financial ripple effects of allowing unlabeled AI artists to proliferate on a DSP like Spotify.

For each AI artist, the site evaluates estimated earnings from their top ten songs at $0.004 per stream and projects monthly income based on three times their monthly listeners. It also computes the number of premium subscriptions that are effectively ‘drained’ to fund them, assuming $9.09 per sub contributes to the royalty pool.

Spotify’s pro-rata model amplifies the issue—total streams dictate payouts, so AI volume directly erodes earnings for genuine artists lacking similar output scale. The site is a magnifying glass to see an informed estimation of royalty drain AI artists have on Spotify. It also highlights the troubling pattern of AI acts mimicking established human talent to gain monthly listeners and grow their reach.

Take David Allen, whose name and country-inflected sound evoke the country artist David Allen Coe, blurring lines for casual listeners. Breaking Rust seems to draw direct influence from Bryan Elijah SMith and Blanco Brown, with the track “Walk My Walk” scaling Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart.

SlopTracker’s top ten AI artists by estimated top-song earnings, captured for March 21-22 2026 paint a picture of displacement for human artists looking to make a living with their music but without the prolific output of these fake AI artists.

Rank Artist Est. Earnings (Top 10 Songs) Monthly Listeners Premium Subs Drained/Month 1 Breaking Rust $297,571 1,547,776 2,043 2 Enlly $200,788 1,944,262 2,566 3 Cain Walker $177,275 1,030,644 1,360 4 Jerry’s Sound Room $161,450 1,721,556 2,272 5 Doc Raven $114,777 674,474 890 6 ZionRay $111,746 1,095,389 1,446 7 Let Babylon Burn $93,734 465,166 614 8 Drew Meadows $85,132 323,970 428 9 Georgia Phantom $82,289 312,207 412 10 Enlly Blue $77,741 299,398 395