This Had To Be

Recording by The Brothers Johnson.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USAM18000862
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xd69d6e35f8bcf843725316b6e12cc24d7dcc214d34dfbfb26639432f9ac386e3
Copyright registration time
2026-06-17T20:57:55+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-02T03:30:09Z
Bitcoin block
956302
Canonical record hash
sha256:ec66cf1cc804e9ae1777c361200906abd011e882cf578325a95e30325d782c0a

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.