The Weight of Mercy
Gravel & Grace · 10827158 Records DK · 5:17504k plays · 135k on YouTube · 368k on Spotify
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The voice
The video description says generative AI creates the central character Arthur Hayes and all of the vocal and instrumental audio, which it classes as altered or synthetic content.
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Deezer marks this release with its AI-generated content label, its flag for releases that include tracks detected as made with AI.
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About this song
"The Weight of Mercy" is a gospel single by Gravel & Grace, the Americana and Christian act whose songs are sung by Arthur Hayes, an elderly singer character. It runs 5 minutes 17 seconds and came out on 31 March 2026 with the distributor name 10827158 Records DK on its rights line. On Spotify it is also collected on the May 2026 compilation Do You Hear Me Lord (The Collected Prayers), the version linked here. Its video on the act's channel bills it as a prayer for every lost soul. The act's videos state that generative AI creates the Arthur Hayes character and all of the vocal and instrumental audio, and Deezer marks the release as AI-generated content. When read on 4 October 2026 the Spotify track had 368,462 plays and the video 135,351 YouTube views. The pages read do not name the AI tools used or who runs the act.
Last Updated 4 October 2026
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504k
Spotify 368k · YouTube 135k
Read once so far, on 4 Oct 2026. The line starts with the next reading.
Tracked since 4 Oct 2026. Each platform is read about once a week.
