I Can't Break the News to Myself

Recording by Ben E. King.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USAT20301997
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x5e8687f625c30d5dfabc3402fc11ed4f24e5c15faa27c4dcbca31cb223b969e1
Copyright registration time
2026-07-06T21:08:54+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:1d609d796ea0c08e9c5e9a9fc0f2ebcc00dd3daf514e7a84ed9cbf6a08361561

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. 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.