Company

Sony Music Asia

Sony's regional record company for South East Asia, based in Singapore from 1993 to 1995 and in Hong Kong since, registered as Sony Music Entertainment Asia Inc.

Registered in
🇺🇸 United States
Founded
19 December 1994
Products here
3

Barcodes that start with Sony Music Asia's number

GS1 licenses blocks of barcode numbers to companies. The first digits of a barcode name the company, the rest name the product and end in a check digit.

  • 4893391······

    the companythe product

    Seen on 3 packs that name Sony Music Asia; no source confirms the holder yet, for example 4893391110320

About Sony Music Asia

Sony Music Asia is the Sony group's regional record company for South East Asia, based in Singapore from 1993 to 1995 and in Hong Kong from 1995 onwards.[1] Its legal entity was incorporated in the United States on 19 December 1994 as Sony Music (Asia) Inc., renamed Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Asia) Inc. on 23 April 2005 and Sony Music Entertainment Asia Inc. on 9 February 2009, and is registered in Hong Kong as a non-Hong Kong company under number F0006849.[2][3]

The company is credited as distributor of Sony's regional CD pressings, among them the Indonesian and Malaysian edition of The Fighting Temptations soundtrack.[4] GS1 prefix 4893391 is inferred to be its block: every MusicBrainz release with a barcode beginning 489339 carries 4893391 and names Sony group labels or Sony Music Asia, across Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand releases (106 read on 2026-09-26).[5]

Distributes 3

Sony Music Asia brings these to a market; someone else makes them.

References

  1. ↑ Discogs label 71473: Sony Music Asia Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 71473. Profile and parent label.
  2. ↑ Discogs label 432048: Sony Music (Asia) Inc. Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 432048. Profile, incorporation, name changes.
  3. ↑ Discogs label 882500: Sony Music Entertainment Asia Inc. Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 882500. Profile, HK CR number.
  4. ↑ Discogs release 14328644: The Fighting Temptations (Music From The Motion Picture) (CD, Compilation, Enhanced, Malaysia, 2003) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 14328644. Identifiers, labels, companies, credits, notes and tracklist.
  5. ↑ MusicBrainz: releases with barcodes beginning 489339 MusicBrainz. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. 106 releases, all under 4893391. CC0. MusicBrainz.
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