{"id":5646,"date":"2026-11-06T21:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/ai-propaganda-songs-russia-streaming"},"modified":"2026-11-06T21:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:14:33","slug":"ai-propaganda-songs-russia-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/ai-propaganda-songs-russia-streaming","title":{"rendered":"AI Propaganda Songs Cost About $11 to Order: 981 Russian War Tracks Drew 86.8 Million Plays in the West","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Terrecon, a Kyiv-based intelligence NGO, found 981 AI propaganda songs glorifying Russia’s war on Deezer, Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube. The 608 of them with public play counters had about 86.8 million plays between them. Ordering a new one from Russian creators cost 999 to 30,000 rubles (about $11 to $330). So this post is for anyone who makes, uploads or distributes AI music, with the full timeline, what the platforms caught (very little) and the rules likely to land on everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our favourite detail is a small one. Terrecon uploaded one of its own test AI propaganda songs to SoundCloud, lyrics calling for violence included, and the description openly called it propaganda. SoundCloud did not flag it. Instead, it suggested promoting it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AI propaganda songs cost 999 rubles and took two hours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Terrecon sent fake orders to 25 Russian authors and communities, and 15 agreed at 999 to 30,000 rubles a song. That comes from a Forbes Ukraine column<\/a> by Terrecon CEO Daria Verbytska. Delivery then took two hours to three days. The orders included anti-Western tracks, songs praising the army and one supporting the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four of the ten who didn’t take the job said no because they only write love songs and birthday greetings. Six never replied. Nobody, it seems, refused on principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The buyer supplies a few talking points, then the generator does the rest. Since Russia has no full local version of Suno or Udio, dev.ua reports<\/a>, authors reach the Western services through local middlemen who handle access and payment around sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the catalogue is small, though. Terrecon went through 3,725 Russian-language songs and flagged 981 as AI propaganda songs. The median for the 608 with stats was about 2,900 plays. Still, 204 passed 10,000 plays, 25 passed a million and the biggest got close to 4.7 million. Also, twelve accounts made 458 of the tracks, almost half the sample.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened so far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The story has been building for over a year, though most of the coverage arrived in October 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n