Yes. Aretha Franklin has 162 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 162

songs in LAION-DISCO-12M under the artist name

A list of 12 million songs on YouTube Music, gathered by walking artist pages, that LAION published in 2024 for training general music models.

Including Border Song (Holy Moses), What Now My Love, The Only Thing Missin'

Listed under the artist name 162 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

Matched exactly: this YouTube Music artist id is the one the dataset lists these songs under.

Border Song (Holy Moses)

Listed as Aretha Franklin – Border Song (Holy Moses) (Young, Gifted and Black) · Watch on YouTube

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What Now My Love

Listed as Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin – What Now My Love (Duets (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)) · Watch on YouTube

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The Only Thing Missin'

Listed as Aretha Franklin – The Only Thing Missin' (So Damn Happy) · Watch on YouTube

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How I Got Over (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972)

Listed as Aretha Franklin – How I Got Over (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 13, 1972) (Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings) · Watch on YouTube

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Everybody's Somebody's Fool

Listed as Aretha Franklin – Everybody's Somebody's Fool (So Damn Happy) · Watch on YouTube

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The Old Ship of Zion, Pt. 1

Listed as Aretha Franklin – The Old Ship of Zion, Pt. 1 (Gospel) · Watch on YouTube

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Can't Turn You Loose

Listed as Aretha Franklin – Can't Turn You Loose (Aretha) · Watch on YouTube

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Skylark

Listed as Aretha Franklin – Skylark (Laughing On the Outside (Expanded Edition)) · Watch on YouTube

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Loving You Baby

Listed as Aretha Franklin – Loving You Baby (Sparkle) · Watch on YouTube

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Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business) (Live at Berns Salonger - Stockholm May 2nd. 1968 [Restauración 2023])

Listed as Aretha Franklin – Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business) (Live at Berns Salonger - Stockholm May 2nd. 1968 [Restauración 2023]) (Aretha Franklin Live at Berns Salonger, Stockholm May 2nd. 1968 (Restauración 2023)) · Watch on YouTube

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(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman [with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra] (feat. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

Listed as Aretha Franklin – (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman [with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra] (feat. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) ((You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]) · Watch on YouTube

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Think (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) (feat. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

Listed as Aretha Franklin – Think (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) (feat. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) (A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)) · Watch on YouTube

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What this means

Last reviewed 2026-09-24.

Presence in a public research dataset shows that a clip of your recording was listed by academic or industry researchers as material for building or testing audio models. It does not by itself show which commercial products, if any, used the clip. The legal picture is moving. On 31 July 2026 the Regional Court of Munich I ruled in GEMA's case against Suno (case 42 O 763/25) that reproducing works for training, holding them in a model in retrievable form, and generating similar outputs can each infringe copyright under German and EU law; the judgment is not final and can be appealed. In the United States, Warner Music Group settled its claims against Suno on 25 November 2025 with a licensing deal, while the parallel claims by Universal and Sony were still pending at that point. Since then BMG (12 August 2026) and Believe/TuneCore (8 September 2026) have signed opt-in licensing deals with Suno.

What you can do

3 routes. None is a guarantee.

UK, PRS members. Send PRS for Music your report and ask what collective or licensing route covers your works.
- PRS for Music and Artificial Intelligence, Version 1 (October 2025), 2025-10-01
- PRS for Music: AI and music copyright, 2026-09-24
Germany, GEMA members. GEMA won a first-instance ruling against Suno on 31 July 2026 and has a licensing model. Ask how they apply to your repertoire.
- GEMA: Suno AI and OpenAI, GEMA sues for fair compensation, 2025-01-21
- DLA Piper: GEMA v Suno, Munich Regional Court judgment of 31 July 2026, 2026-08-28
- Music Business Worldwide: Germany's GEMA launches AI Charter, 2024-11-05
Signed to Warner, BMG or Believe/TuneCore. Each has an opt-in licensing deal with Suno. Ask your label what opting in or out means for you and whether any settlement money reaches artists.
- Music Business Worldwide: Warner Music Group settles with Suno, 2025-11-25
- Music Ally: Suno signs another music licensing deal, with BMG, 2026-08-12
- Music Business Worldwide: Suno inks global deal with Believe, 2026-09-08

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These pages report where identifiers from public research datasets point. Presence in a dataset is a fact about the dataset, not a claim about the channel or artist, and says nothing about what any company did with the material. If you are this artist and want this page removed, see removals.