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Sony Music Direct

Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc. (株式会社ソニー・ミュージックダイレクト) was a Tokyo record company of the Sony Music group that made and sold planned releases drawn from the group's recordings, chiefly reissues and cross-label compilations, and ran a mail-order CD club.

Registered in
🇯🇵 Japan
Founded
16 February 1996
Brands here
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Products here
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Who owns Sony Music Direct

Every company above Sony Music Direct, the top of the group first, each tie from a cited source.

Sony Music Direct
What the sources say about these ties
Sony Music Labels absorbed it
Japanese Wikipedia: absorbed by Sony Music Labels on 1 April 2022, its label business continuing as an in-house label of that company

Barcodes that start with Sony Music Direct'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.

  • 4562109······

    the companythe product

    Seen on 1 pack that name Sony Music Direct; no source confirms the holder yet, for example 4562109408423

About Sony Music Direct

Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc. (株式会社ソニー・ミュージックダイレクト) was a Tokyo record company of the Sony Music group that made and sold planned releases drawn from the group's recordings, chiefly reissues and cross-label compilations, and ran a mail-order CD club.[1] It was founded on 16 February 1996 as Sony Music House, split from Sony Family Club, and took the Sony Music Direct name on 1 April 2003; its catalogue numbers begin with the sales code MH, a remnant of the Sony Music House name.[1] It manufactured the 2004 Japanese paper-sleeve CD of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, MHCP-377.[2][3]

On 1 April 2022 it passed its marketing business to Sony Music Marketing United and was absorbed by Sony Music Labels, where its labels continued as an in-house company label.[1] The JAN prefix 456210940 is inferred as its own: every one of 300 MusicBrainz releases read under 4562109 on 2026-09-25 begins 456210940 and carries an MH catalogue number.[4]

Brands tied to Sony Music Direct 1

Makes 1

Sony Music Direct is named on the pack or in a filing as the maker.

References

  1. ↑ Wikipedia (ja): ソニー・ミュージックダイレクト Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-25. Lead, 沿革 and レーベル. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. ↑ Discogs release 3915380: Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (CD, Limited Edition, Remastered, Japan, 2004) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-25. Record: 3915380. Identifiers, companies, credits, notes, tracklist.
  3. ↑ Amazon.co.jp: 血の轍 (紙ジャケット仕様): ミュージック Amazon.co.jp. retailer. Accessed 2026-09-25. Record: B0002J54JG. Registration details (登録情報) and format/offer table.
  4. ↑ MusicBrainz: releases with barcodes beginning 4562109 MusicBrainz. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-25. Barcodes and catalogue numbers of 300 of 308 hits. CC0. MusicBrainz.
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