AI-Generated Song 'GG EZ' Charts in Korea After Jung Kook Dance Video, Despite Copyright Lawsuit and Royalty Ban

Sasuke reached Korean music charts after BTS’s Jung Kook posted a video performing its dance challenge and tagged TWS. Forbes reported that the post accumulated more than 91.6 million views across Jung Kook’s two social-media accounts. The track, initially choreographed by TWS’s Kangmin, was performed by artists including ITZY’s Yeji, MEOVV’s Gawon and Sooin, Hearts2Heart’s Ian and Jiwoo, Kiss of Life’s Julie, Tomorrow X Together’s Yeonjun, Billlie’s Tsuki, ILLIT’s Iroha, ENHYPEN’s Sunoo, EVAN, SEVENTEEN’s Jeonghan, ATEEZ’s Yonho, Stray Kids’ Lee Know, NCT WISH’s Sion and Riku, and RIIZE’s Shotaro.

The official song link was used 64,000 times on Instagram and 74,600 times on TikTok. M.Sasuke stated that the music and vocals were created with AI while the words, arrangement, and prompts were written by the artist.Sasuke’s monthly listeners on Spotify rose above 741,000 after the Jung Kook posts.

The artist’s real name has not been revealed, and the profile photo on streaming services is an animated figure. ” Forbes reported that Rym now has 391,000 Spotify followers. Artists who danced to those tracks include TXT, ITZY, BINI, TWS, P1Harmony, TWICE, BoyNextDoor, ENHYPEN, NCT, ALPHA DRIVE ONE, TREASURE, ZEROBASEONE, KickFlip, and INI.

Sasuke posted that music distribution could be suspended without notice due to future legal or regulatory changes and that a personally rearranged version would be uploaded if that occurs. The artist permits others to use the tracks for their own creations but requires contact before re-editing audio, creating remixes, using the music for AI training, or producing derivative commercial works.

Forbes reported that Suno’s AI was trained in 2023 and 2024 by scraping tracks, music, and lyrics from multiple platforms including YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Music Score Library Project, and podcasts via RSS feeds.