Sony Music Entertainment South Africa: version 1
Saved 2026-09-26 16:09 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the South African 2004 CD of Jill Scott, Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (Hidden Beach Recordings CDEPC 6879, barcode 6007689698737), named by family/beautifully-human-words-and-sound. This is the current version.
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# Sony Music Entertainment South Africa <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Entertainment South Africa
disambiguation: Sony Music's South African record company in Johannesburg; not Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd, the African arm Discogs dates to 2011, nor BMG Africa
summary: Sony Music's South African record company in Johannesburg, which marketed and distributed Columbia and Epic releases in South Africa from the 1990s.
country: ZA
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 6007689
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/sony-music-entertainment | | | | | sourced | ^wiki-sma | Wikipedia calls Sony Music Entertainment Africa, whose South African division this is, a subsidiary of Sony Music |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony Music South Africa | name | en | | |
| Sony Music Entertainment S.A. | search | | | |
| Sony Music SA | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| za-back | https://www.discogs.com/release/34153369-Jill-Scott-Beautifully-Human-Words-And-Sounds-Vol-2 | Back inlay of the South African CD (CDEPC 6879), scan on the Discogs release page | 2026-09-26 | Discogs | pack | | 34153369 | second image: back inlay and spines, 600 × 459 px | | | |
| mb-block | https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release?query=barcode:6007689*&fmt=json&limit=100 | MusicBrainz release search: barcodes beginning 6007689 | 2026-09-26 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | | 307 releases, labels and catalogue numbers | CC0 | | |
| discogs-smesa | https://api.discogs.com/labels/1001384 | Discogs label 1001384: Sony Music Entertainment South Africa | 2026-09-26 | Discogs | catalogue | | 1001384 | profile, contact, parent label | | | |
| discogs-smea | https://api.discogs.com/labels/367247 | Discogs label 367247: Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd | 2026-09-26 | Discogs | catalogue | | 367247 | profile, contact, parent label, sublabels | | | |
| wiki-sma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Africa | Wikipedia: Sony Music Africa | 2026-09-26 | Wikipedia | publication | | | lead, history, subsidiaries | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
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## About <!--about-->
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.[^discogs-smesa] Wikipedia describes Sony Music South Africa as the Johannesburg hub of Sony Music Africa, the local arm of Sony Music founded in 1991,[^wiki-sma] while Discogs dates the African company to 2011.[^discogs-smea] It marketed and distributed the South African CD of Jill Scott's Beautifully Human in 2004.[^za-back]
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.[^mb-block]
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