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Sony Music Entertainment South Africa

Sony Music's South African record company in Johannesburg, which marketed and distributed Columbia and Epic releases in South Africa from the 1990s.

Registered in
🇿🇦 South Africa
Part of
Sony Music Entertainment
Products here
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Who owns Sony Music Entertainment South Africa

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

Sony Music Entertainment South Africa
What the sources say about these ties
Sony Music Entertainment group
Wikipedia calls Sony Music Entertainment Africa, whose South African division this is, a subsidiary of Sony Music

Barcodes that start with Sony Music Entertainment South Africa'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.

  • 6007689······

    the companythe product

    Seen on 3 packs that name Sony Music Entertainment South Africa; no source confirms the holder yet, for example 6007689689933

About Sony Music Entertainment South Africa

Sony Music Entertainment South Africa, also printed as Sony Music South Africa, is the South African record company of Sony Music, based at 45 Jan Smuts Avenue, Westcliff, Johannesburg; Discogs files it under Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd.[1] Wikipedia describes Sony Music South Africa as the Johannesburg hub of Sony Music Africa, the local arm of Sony Music founded in 1991,[2] while Discogs dates the African company to 2011.[3] It marketed and distributed the South African CD of Jill Scott's Beautifully Human in 2004.[4]

Barcode prefix 6007689 is recorded as inferred: of 307 MusicBrainz releases under it read on 2026-09-26, dated 1995 to 2005, most carry Columbia or Epic with the South African catalogue prefixes CDCOL and CDEPC, and the rest are labels such as Sheer Sound and First Night that it distributed; nine are credited to Sony BMG Music Entertainment in the merger years.[5]

Sells under its name 3

The pack names Sony Music Entertainment South Africa as the company the product is made for or marketed by.

References

  1. ↑ Discogs label 1001384: Sony Music Entertainment South Africa Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 1001384. profile, contact, parent label.
  2. ↑ Wikipedia: Sony Music Africa Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-26. lead, history, subsidiaries. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  3. ↑ Discogs label 367247: Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 367247. profile, contact, parent label, sublabels.
  4. ↑ Back inlay of the South African CD (CDEPC 6879), scan on the Discogs release page Discogs. pack. Accessed 2026-09-26. Record: 34153369. second image: back inlay and spines, 600 × 459 px.
  5. ↑ MusicBrainz release search: barcodes beginning 6007689 MusicBrainz. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-26. 307 releases, labels and catalogue numbers. CC0.
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