Yes. Daniel Johnston has 150 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 150

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 Running Water, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances, Desperate Man Blues

Listed under the artist name 150 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Running Water

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Running Water (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances (Yip Jump Music) · Watch on YouTube

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Desperate Man Blues

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Desperate Man Blues (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Get Yourself Together

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Get Yourself Together (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Peek a Boo

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Peek a Boo (The What of Whom) · Watch on YouTube

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Grievances

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Grievances (Songs of Pain) · Watch on YouTube

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Casper the Friendly Ghost

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Casper the Friendly Ghost (Yip Jump Music) · Watch on YouTube

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No More Pushing Joe Around

Listed as Daniel Johnston – No More Pushing Joe Around (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Speeding Motorcycle

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Speeding Motorcycle (Yip Jump Music) · Watch on YouTube

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Unpack Your Adjectives

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Unpack Your Adjectives (Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks) · Watch on YouTube

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Lousy Weekend

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Lousy Weekend (Fun) · Watch on YouTube

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Poor You

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Poor You (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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I Am a Baby (In My Universe)

Listed as Daniel Johnston – I Am a Baby (In My Universe) (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Held the Hand

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Held the Hand (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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Living Life

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Living Life (Songs of Pain) · Watch on YouTube

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You Hurt Me

Listed as Daniel Johnston, Mark Linkous – You Hurt Me (Fear Yourself) · Watch on YouTube

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Hey Joe

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Hey Joe (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Funeral Home

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Funeral Home (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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My Yoke Is Heavy

Listed as Daniel Johnston – My Yoke Is Heavy (Don't Be Scared) · Watch on YouTube

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I Killed the Monster

Listed as Daniel Johnston – I Killed the Monster (Artistic Vice) · Watch on YouTube

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Some Things Last a Long Time (feat. Kramer)

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Some Things Last a Long Time (feat. Kramer) (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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Loner

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Loner (Don't Be Scared) · Watch on YouTube

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Mean Girls Give Pleasure

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Mean Girls Give Pleasure (Space Ducks: Soundtrack) · Watch on YouTube

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Love Wheel

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Love Wheel (Fun) · Watch on YouTube

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Keep Punching Joe

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Keep Punching Joe (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Lord, Give Me Hope

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Lord, Give Me Hope (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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True Love Will Find You in the End

Listed as Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You in the End (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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Don't Be Scared

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Don't Be Scared (Don't Be Scared) · Watch on YouTube

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Big Business Monkey

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Big Business Monkey (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Worried Shoes

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Worried Shoes (Yip Jump Music) · Watch on YouTube

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An Idiot's End

Listed as Daniel Johnston – An Idiot's End (Songs of Pain) · Watch on YouTube

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Devil Town

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Devil Town (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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Mind Contorted

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Mind Contorted (Fun) · Watch on YouTube

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Walking the Cow

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Walking the Cow (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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I Picture Myself with a Guitar

Listed as Daniel Johnston – I Picture Myself with a Guitar (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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Despair Came Knocking

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Despair Came Knocking (Hi How Are You) · Watch on YouTube

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The Story of an Artist

Listed as Daniel Johnston – The Story of an Artist (Don't Be Scared) · Watch on YouTube

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Spirit World Rising (feat. Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley)

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Spirit World Rising (feat. Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley) (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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Honey I Sure Miss You

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Honey I Sure Miss You (Artistic Vice) · Watch on YouTube

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Whiz Kid

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Whiz Kid (Laurie EP) · Watch on YouTube

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Silly Love

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Silly Love (Fun) · Watch on YouTube

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Fish

Listed as Daniel Johnston, Mark Linkous – Fish (Fear Yourself) · Watch on YouTube

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Tears Stupid Tears

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Tears Stupid Tears (1990) · Watch on YouTube

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Cold Hard World

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Cold Hard World (Don't Be Scared) · Watch on YouTube

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Go

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Go (Respect) · Watch on YouTube

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The Sun Shines Down on Me

Listed as Daniel Johnston – The Sun Shines Down on Me (Don't Be Scared) · Watch on YouTube

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Life in Vain

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Life in Vain (Fun) · Watch on YouTube

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Mind Movies

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Mind Movies (Is and Always Was) · Watch on YouTube

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I Had Lost My Mind

Listed as Daniel Johnston – I Had Lost My Mind (Don't Be Scared) · Watch on YouTube

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Tell Me Now

Listed as Daniel Johnston – Tell Me Now (Artistic Vice) · 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.