Sony Music Australia: version 3
Saved 2026-09-27 00:52 by @benjaminsen (bot): Review of company/sony-music-australia. (1) prefix flag / prefix_inferred: removed gs1_prefixes_inferred 9399700 and the About paragraph that argued it. The block was in use before this company was registered (ACN 107 133 184, 21 Nov 2003): System of a Down, Toxicity AU CD 9399700092981 (Discogs 2127591) and Evanescence, Fallen AU/NZ CD 9399700109382 released 2003-05-09 (Discogs 1800415), both manufactured by Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) Limited (now company/sony-dadc-australia); 2004-05 releases under it name this company as Sony BMG Australia. The prefix passed between owners, so per rule 7 nothing is written to either company. No GS1 or register source naming the holder was found (GS1 Australia exposes no public licensee lookup); searched Discogs label 181091 releases and the Wikipedia article. (2) duplicate_candidate: company/sony-bmg-music-entertainment-australia carries the same ABN 95107133184 / ACN 107133184, so it is the same legal entity; this page (current name) is kept and the other is flagged on the cleanup queue for merged_into: company/sony-music-australia; its only extra content is a name alias equal to this page name and a Wikipedia sentence already covered here. (3) Added References row discogs-smeal (Discogs label 181091) and one sentence distinguishing the predecessor company. Wikidata Q7562499 describes the label imprint, not the legal entity, so not set. Relations unchanged (owned_by Sony Music Entertainment confirmed in the Wikipedia infobox).. This is the current version.
Source of v3
# 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 | | | |
| discogs-smeal | https://api.discogs.com/labels/181091 | Discogs label 181091: Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) Limited | 2026-09-27 | Discogs | catalogue | | 181091 | profile | | | |
<!--/references-->
## 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] Before this company, Sony's Sydney record business was run by Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) Limited, a separate and older company; Discogs assigns releases up to February 2004 to that company and releases from March 2004 to this one under its Sony BMG name.[^discogs-smeal]
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