BMG Africa: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 13:00 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the South African CD of Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten (BMG Africa CDRCA (CF) 7110, 2004), completing a barcode named by family/unwritten-natasha-bedingfield. Identity, labels, catalogue number. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# BMG Africa <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: BMG Africa
disambiguation: South African record label of BMG, 1990s–2000s
summary: South African record label of Bertelsmann's BMG, used on BMG catalogue releases for southern Africa and operated by BMG Africa (Pty) Ltd.
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target             | market | from | until | ended | status  | source             | note                                                                     |
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| imprint_of | company/bmg-africa |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^discogs-bmgafrica | Discogs files the BMG Africa label under BMG Africa (PTY) Ltd. as parent |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref               | url                                      | title                                                                                    | accessed   | publisher | kind      | published | record_id | locator                                   | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-bmgafrica | https://api.discogs.com/labels/97610     | Discogs label 97610: BMG Africa                                                          | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 97610     | profile, parent label                     |         |             |          |
| discogs-za        | https://api.discogs.com/releases/8125194 | Discogs release 8125194: Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten (CD, Album, South Africa, 2004) | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 8125194   | identifiers, labels, companies, tracklist |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
BMG Africa is a South African record label of BMG, the music division of Bertelsmann; Discogs describes it as a South African label covering most of the continent and files it under the company BMG Africa (PTY) Ltd.[^discogs-bmgafrica] It appears with Phonogenic on the South African CD of Natasha Bedingfield's album Unwritten, catalogue number CDRCA (CF) 7110, in 2004.[^discogs-za]
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