BTS and Psy songs are on the 60,202-track list in UMG and Sony's second Suno lawsuit

Psy’s “Gangnam Style” is on the list of recordings Universal Music Group and Sony Music say Suno trained on without permission. So are “Gentleman”, 2 BTS collaborations and a will.i.am track featuring 2NE1, Korea JoongAng Daily reported on October 28, 2026.

The songs sit among the 60,202 recordings named in the labels’ second lawsuit against Suno, filed in Boston federal court on September 18. Korean labels hadn’t noticed, and the Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) now says it’s considering legal action.

Which BTS, Psy and 2NE1 songs are on the Suno lawsuit list?

JoongAng Daily reporter Yoon Sung-min went through the list the labels filed with their September complaint. The report names these 5 recordings:

• “Gangnam Style” (2012) by Psy, the first YouTube video to pass 1 billion views.
• “Gentleman” (2013) by Psy.
• “Bad Decisions” (2022) by Benny Blanco, BTS and Snoop Dogg.
• “Waste It On Me” (2018) by Steve Aoki featuring BTS.
• “Gettin’ Dumb” (2013) by will.i.am featuring 2NE1.

Three of the 5 are collaborations with American acts. The other 2 are Psy’s own singles, released by his Korean label at the time, YG Entertainment.

So why would a Korean hit like “Gangnam Style” turn up in a lawsuit filed by 2 American labels?

Why Psy’s Gangnam Style is in a Universal Music lawsuit

The list only covers recordings Universal and Sony own in the US, or have the exclusive right to manage there. That’s the catch for K-pop.

YG Entertainment signed a distribution deal with Universal for markets outside Korea and Japan, according to JoongAng Daily. That deal is what puts “Gangnam Style” in Universal’s column in a US court.

It works the other way round too. A K-pop song that only a Korean label releases, with no Universal or Sony deal behind it in the US, won’t be on this list, even if Suno trained on it.

That leaves the obvious next question: how did the labels know which recordings Suno had in the first place?

How Universal and Sony matched 60,202 recordings to Suno’s training data

The list isn’t a guess. US lawsuits run on discovery, where each side can demand evidence from the other with the court’s approval.

Audio experts hired by Universal and Sony got into Suno’s secure facility in 2025 and examined its source code and training data, JoongAng Daily reports. They pulled audio fingerprints from Suno’s files and compared them with the labels’ own recordings.

An audio fingerprint is an ID built from how a recording sounds. It’s the same trick Shazam uses to name a song playing in a bar.

The labels first tried to add 61,026 of those recordings to their 2024 case. Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV said no in August, so they filed 60,202 of them as a new lawsuit instead.

The list isn’t the whole training set either. Suno has admitted in court that it took audio from YouTube with YT-DLP, and code from a hack reported by 404 Media pointed to 2,013,545 music clips.

What KOMCA said about K-pop in Suno’s training data

Korean labels and agencies didn’t know their artists’ songs were on the list, and none had taken action as of October 28, according to JoongAng Daily.

KOMCA manages the song copyrights for Korean musical works, and on October 27 it said this:

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We believe there is a possibility that a significant number of [Korean] musical works have been used for AI training. We are also considering taking legal action, if necessary, to protect the rights of music creators.

KOMCA has had a busy year on AI. It pulled its AI-assisted registration rules in August, 22 days after they took effect.

A collecting society has taken Suno to court before. Germany’s GEMA won in Munich in July 2026, in the first European ruling that AI music training needs a license.

Korean outlets including The Korea Daily put the labels’ claim at $12 billion. The math on the filing comes out lower: 60,202 recordings at the $150,000 statutory maximum per work is just over $9 billion.

Nothing in the v6 case has been decided. Suno answered on October 20 with 13 defenses led by fair use, and I’m logging every filing in the UMG and Sony v. Suno (v6) case tracker.