Ballade de Melody Nelson

Recording by Serge Gainsbourg.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
FRZ037101920
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1971
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x5ca278755f58fe34251039c3307486617fec98e0577391d569f31c3620d3a049

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-29T14:28:24Z
Bitcoin block
960117
Canonical record hash
sha256:f97ee9fb8f7c5bf9f25a4a63a85088bec995534c83c95c2822eef1d0c10745e9

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1971, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.