Sony Music Australia: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 19:46 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed the leased entry and applied the flagged fix. The display name was the defunct 2004-2009 joint-venture name Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Australia); the ABR history shows ABN 95 107 133 184 has traded as Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd since 5 January 2009, and Wikipedia titles the company Sony Music Australia, so I renamed the entity to its current common trading name (Sony Music Australia), keeping the full corporate form in legal_name and as a legal alias. Company keys are slugify(name), so the key necessarily moves from sony-bmg-music-entertainment-australia to sony-music-australia (validate flagged the expected rename/redirect); it cannot literally 'stay' while the name changes. Rewrote Identity summary and disambiguation and the About lede to lead with the current entity, with the 2004-2009 Sony BMG history in the second paragraph; dropped the now-redundant Sony Music Australia name alias. Relations, register_ids, founded and all References are unchanged and their sources (accessed 2026-09-13/22) remain fresh. No new References rows added.. Current is v3.

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# Sony Music Australia <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Australia
disambiguation: Australian record company of Sony Music Entertainment; named Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Australia) between 2004 and 2009
summary: Sydney record company, the Australian arm of Sony Music Entertainment; ran as the Sony BMG joint venture's local company from 2004 to 2009.
legal_name: Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd
country: AU
register_ids: AU-ABN:95107133184, AU-ACN:107133184
founded: 2003-11-21
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                               | market | from    | until      | ended | status  | source        | note                                                                                                                                                       |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------ | ------ | ------- | ---------- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by   | company/sony-music-entertainment     |        |         |            |       | sourced | ^wiki-sma     | Wikipedia names Sony Music Entertainment as the American parent company of Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd                                      |
| parent_org | company/sony-bmg-music-entertainment |        | 2004-11 | 2009-01-05 | true  | derived | ^discogs-sbau | Discogs files the company, under its 2004 to 2009 name, beneath Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which itself became Sony Music Entertainment in January 2009 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                                 | type  | locale | from       | until      |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Australia) Pty Limited | legal |        | 2004-11-19 | 2009-01-05 |
| Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd           | legal |        | 2009-01-05 |            |
| Sony Music (Australia) Pty Limited                   | legal |        | 2004-07-28 | 2004-11-19 |
| Sony Music Operations (Australia) Pty Limited        | legal |        | 2004-04-01 | 2004-07-28 |
| Sony BMG                                             | name  |        | 2005-03-08 |            |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                                                                 | title                                                                                        | accessed   | publisher                    | kind        | published | record_id   | locator                                             | licence | attribution | upstream              |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------- | ----------- | --------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | --------------------- |
| discogs-11429333 | https://api.discogs.com/releases/11429333                                           | Discogs release 11429333: Matisyahu – Live At Stubb's (CD, Album, Enhanced, Australia, 2006) | 2026-09-13 | Discogs                      | catalogue   |           | 11429333    | identifiers, companies, notes                       |         |             |                       |
| discogs-sbau     | https://api.discogs.com/labels/216731                                               | Discogs label 216731: Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Australia) Pty Limited                   | 2026-09-22 | Discogs                      | catalogue   |           | 216731      | profile, parent label                               |         |             |                       |
| abr-hist         | https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=95107133184                          | ABN Lookup: historical details for ABN 95 107 133 184                                        | 2026-09-22 | Australian Business Register | registry    |           | 95107133184 | entity name, trading name, business names, location |         |             |                       |
| abr              | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?id=95107133184                                 | ABN Lookup: current details for ABN 95 107 133 184                                           | 2026-09-22 | Australian Business Register | registry    |           | 95107133184 | entity name, entity type, ASIC registration         |         |             |                       |
| aubiz            | https://www.aubiz.net/company/sony-music-entertainment-australia-pty-ltd-107133184/ | Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd - ABN, ACN, business names, former names          | 2026-09-22 | aubiz.net                    | registry    |           | 107133184   | ASIC registration date, type, class                 |         |             | ASIC company register |
| wiki-sma         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Australia                                  | Sony Music Australia – Wikipedia                                                             | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia                    | publication |           |             | infobox, lede                                       |         |             |                       |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Australia is the Australian record company of Sony Music Entertainment, registered as Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd and based in Sydney.[^wiki-sma][^abr] It is a private company limited by shares, entered on the ASIC register on 21 November 2003 under ACN 107 133 184.[^aubiz][^abr] Between 19 November 2004 and 5 January 2009 it was named Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Australia) Pty Limited, the Australian company of the Sony BMG joint venture, before taking its present name.[^abr-hist] Under the Sony BMG name it distributed releases such as the 2006 Australian pressing of Matisyahu's Live at Stubb's.[^discogs-11429333]

The company was first entered in the Australian Business Register on 1 April 2004 as Sony Music Operations (Australia) Pty Limited, took the name Sony Music (Australia) Pty Limited on 28 July 2004 and Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Australia) Pty Limited on 19 November 2004; it has used the trading name Sony BMG since 8 March 2005 and has registered business names including So Fresh, Bandit.fm and On Repeat.[^abr-hist] Discogs files it under Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the Sony and Bertelsmann joint venture that was itself renamed Sony Music Entertainment in January 2009.[^discogs-sbau]
<!--/about-->