The Ballad

Recording by Blur.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
GBAYE2300866
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2023-07-24
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x8e4be376522b280fd93437a3190666a09e0b9c2f69173a4ef1fec4f99b976445
Copyright registration time
2026-06-04T16:51:42+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T13:32:09Z
Bitcoin block
953520
Canonical record hash
sha256:e6b6e4e6f1e1f483c7f50ae8d45d6461c093d68bf2cfaedafca8738d68a94eb5

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2023. ProofProfile's artist catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and this recording entered the record through cc-db-prod's ISRC-linked registration. Its provenance rests on the dates stated above rather than on the era of that source corpus.

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.