Yes. The Royals has 66 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 66

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 Tears Of A Man, I'll Never Let Her Go (feat. Hank Ballard), Exploitation

Listed under the artist name 66 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Tears Of A Man

Listed as The Royals – Tears Of A Man (Gish-Abbai) · Watch on YouTube

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I'll Never Let Her Go (feat. Hank Ballard)

Listed as The Royals – I'll Never Let Her Go (feat. Hank Ballard) (Looking Back... Hank Ballard) · Watch on YouTube

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Exploitation

Listed as The Royals – Exploitation (Gish-Abbai) · Watch on YouTube

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Are You Forgetting (feat. Hank Ballard)

Listed as The Royals – Are You Forgetting (feat. Hank Ballard) (Looking Back... Hank Ballard) · Watch on YouTube

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Starting from Tonight (feat. Hank Ballard)

Listed as The Royals – Starting from Tonight (feat. Hank Ballard) (Looking Back... Hank Ballard) · Watch on YouTube

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All Night Long (feat. Hank Ballard)

Listed as The Royals – All Night Long (feat. Hank Ballard) (Looking Back... Hank Ballard) · Watch on YouTube

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Are You Forgetting

Listed as The Royals – Are You Forgetting (King Vocal Groups - Volume 2 - Do Be You) · Watch on YouTube

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The Shrine of St. Celia (feat. Hank Ballard)

Listed as The Royals – The Shrine of St. Celia (feat. Hank Ballard) (Looking Back... Hank Ballard) · Watch on YouTube

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Repatriation

Listed as The Royals – Repatriation (Gish-Abbai) · Watch on YouTube

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Leaving on a Jetplane (From "Armageddon")

Listed as The Royals – Leaving on a Jetplane (From "Armageddon") (Best of Movie Soundtrack & TV Playlist - The Dance Track Hit Compilation) · Watch on YouTube

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I Feel That-A-Away (feat. Hank Ballard)

Listed as The Royals – I Feel That-A-Away (feat. Hank Ballard) (Looking Back... Hank Ballard) · Watch on YouTube

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Moon Rise

Listed as The Royals – Moon Rise (Doo Wop Classics: 54 Original Hit Recordings) · Watch on YouTube

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Wenn es einmal Liebe war

Listed as The Royals – Wenn es einmal Liebe war (Disco-Disco: Die deutsche Schlager-Party, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

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Leaving on a Jetplane (Acoustic Lounge Mix)

Listed as The Royals – Leaving on a Jetplane (Acoustic Lounge Mix) (Lounge of Love, Vol. 9 (The Acoustic Unplugged Compilation Playlist 2016)) · Watch on YouTube

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That's It (feat. Hank Ballard)

Listed as The Royals – That's It (feat. Hank Ballard) (Looking Back... Hank Ballard) · Watch on YouTube

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Creation Daily Blues

Listed as The Royals – Creation Daily Blues (Gish-Abbai) · 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.