Yes. Ricky Mears has 10 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 10

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 Putcha' On!, Galaxies, Kintsukuroi (feat. Dalero & Steve Arintok)

Listed under the artist name 10 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Putcha' On!

Listed as Ricky Mears – Putcha' On! (Putcha' On!) · Watch on YouTube

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Galaxies

Listed as Ricky Mears – Galaxies (Deliverance) · Watch on YouTube

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Kintsukuroi (feat. Dalero & Steve Arintok)

Listed as Ricky Mears – Kintsukuroi (feat. Dalero & Steve Arintok) (Deliverance) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video JbIt0xo5sQk · row JbIt0xo5sQk

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Evolution

Listed as Ricky Mears – Evolution (Deliverance) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video NnHuGYdQCU4 · row NnHuGYdQCU4

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Bangers & Mash

Listed as Ricky Mears – Bangers & Mash (Bangers & Mash) · Watch on YouTube

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Thts Wht Frnds R 4

Listed as Ricky Mears – Thts Wht Frnds R 4 (Thts Wht Frnds R 4) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video ZYxN6FkH3O8 · row ZYxN6FkH3O8

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Threads

Listed as Ricky Mears – Threads (Deliverance) · Watch on YouTube

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Stay Down (feat. Deja Elyze)

Listed as Ricky Mears – Stay Down (feat. Deja Elyze) (Deliverance) · Watch on YouTube

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Rise (feat. Mona Moua)

Listed as Ricky Mears, Mona Moua, West District – Rise (feat. Mona Moua) (Rise) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video mnn-c0wqnpU · row mnn-c0wqnpU

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Strada (feat. Deja Elyze)

Listed as Ricky Mears – Strada (feat. Deja Elyze) (Strada) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video nVUOSSqlI3M · row nVUOSSqlI3M

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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.