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| 1 | 1 | # Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings | |
| 5 | 5 | disambiguation: UK holding company, Companies House 03185450; not Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the record company it holds. | |
| 6 | 6 | summary: London holding company registered in 1996 that holds Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the Sony group's British record company, under Sony Group Corporation. | |
| 7 | 7 | legal_name: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited | |
| 8 | 8 | registered_address: 2 Canal Reach, London, N1C 4DB, United Kingdom | |
| 9 | 9 | country: GB | |
| 10 | 10 | register_ids: GB-CH:03185450 | |
| 11 | 11 | founded: 1996-04-12 | |
| 12 | 12 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 13 | 13 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 15 | − | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 16 | − | | ---------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 17 | − | | parent_org | company/sony-group-corporation | | | | | sourced | ^ch-smeukh-psc | Companies House persons-with-significant-control entry for 03185450 names Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, as the sole active person with significant control, notified 6 April 2016, with 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights | | |
| 15 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 16 | + | | -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 17 | + | | owned_by | company/sony-group-corporation | | | | | sourced | ^ch-smeukh-psc | Companies House persons-with-significant-control entry for 03185450 names Sony Group Corporation of Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, as the sole active person with significant control, notified 6 April 2016, with 75 per cent or more of the shares and of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors | | |
| 18 | 18 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 19 | 19 | ||
| 20 | 20 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 21 | 21 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 22 | 22 | | -------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | | |
| 23 | 23 | | Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited | legal | | | | | |
| 24 | 24 | | Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK Holdings) Limited | legal | | 2006-06-12 | 2009-01-02 | | |
| 25 | 25 | | BMG Europe Ltd. | legal | | 2002-02-04 | 2006-06-12 | | |
| 26 | 26 | | BMG UK Limited | legal | | 1997-08-28 | 2002-02-04 | | |
| 27 | 27 | | Burginhall 889 Limited | legal | | 1996-04-12 | 1997-08-28 | | |
| 28 | 28 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 29 | 29 | ||
| 30 | 30 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 31 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 32 | − | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | -------- | --------- | --------- | ----------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 33 | − | | ch-smeukh | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450 | Companies House: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-19 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | overview and previous company names | | | | | |
| 34 | − | | ch-smeukh-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-19 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | persons with significant control | | | | | |
| 35 | − | | ch-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01471066/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, 01471066 | 2026-09-19 | Companies House | registry | | 01471066 | persons with significant control | | | | | |
| 31 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 32 | + | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | -------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 33 | + | | ch-smeukh | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450 | Companies House: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | overview and previous company names | | | | | |
| 34 | + | | ch-smeukh-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | persons with significant control | | | | | |
| 35 | + | | ch-smeuk | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01471066 | Companies House: Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, 01471066 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 01471066 | overview and previous company names | | | | | |
| 36 | + | | ch-smeuk-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01471066/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, 01471066 | 2026-09-22 | Companies House | registry | | 01471066 | persons with significant control | | | | | |
| 37 | + | | sony-20f | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313838/000119312526274893/d28719d20f.htm | Sony Group Corporation, Form 20-F for the year ended 31 March 2026: history and development of the company | 2026-09-22 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2026-06-18 | 0001193125-26-274893 | history and development | | | | | |
| 36 | 38 | <!--/references--> | |
| 37 | 39 | ||
| 38 | 40 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 39 | − | Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited is a private limited company registered in England on 12 April 1996 under number 03185450, with its registered office at 2 Canal Reach, London N1C 4DB and "activities of head offices" as its declared business; it is active and its last accounts were made up to 31 March 2025.[^ch-smeukh] It is the sole active person with significant control of Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the Sony group's British record company, holding 75 per cent or more of that company's shares and voting rights, notified on 6 April 2016.[^ch-psc] | |
| 41 | + | Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited is the London holding company through which the Sony group holds its British record company. It was registered in England on 12 April 1996 under number 03185450, gives "activities of head offices" as its declared business and has its registered office at 2 Canal Reach, London N1C 4DB; it is active and its last accounts were made up to 31 March 2025.[^ch-smeukh] Companies House names Sony Group Corporation of Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, as its sole active person with significant control, notified on 6 April 2016, with 75 per cent or more of the shares and of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors.[^ch-smeukh-psc] It holds Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, registered number 01471066, on the same three counts.[^ch-smeuk-psc] | |
| 40 | 42 | ||
| 41 | − | The company was registered as Burginhall 889 Limited, became BMG UK Limited on 28 August 1997, BMG Europe Ltd. on 4 February 2002 and Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK Holdings) Limited on 12 June 2006, and took its present name on 2 January 2009, the same day the record company below it did.[^ch-smeukh] Its own sole active person with significant control is Sony Group Corporation of Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, notified on 6 April 2016.[^ch-smeukh-psc] No filing read here names the companies that sit between the two, and no site, encyclopedia article or LEI record of this holding company was found, so nothing beyond the register is recorded on this page. | |
| 43 | + | The company has carried four earlier names, each of them on the register: incorporated as Burginhall 889 Limited on 12 April 1996, it became BMG UK Limited on 28 August 1997, BMG Europe Ltd. on 4 February 2002 and Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK Holdings) Limited on 12 June 2006, and took its present name on 2 January 2009.[^ch-smeukh] The record company below it dropped the Sony BMG name for Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited on that same day.[^ch-smeuk] Those names follow the wider business: Sony combined its recorded-music operations outside Japan with those of Bertelsmann AG in August 2004 to form the 50-50 joint venture SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, acquired Bertelsmann's 50 per cent interest in October 2008 and renamed the joint-venture company Sony Music Entertainment in January 2009.[^sony-20f] | |
| 42 | 44 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings
disambiguation: UK holding company, Companies House 03185450; not Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the record company it holds.
summary: London holding company registered in 1996 that holds Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the Sony group's British record company, under Sony Group Corporation.
legal_name: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited
registered_address: 2 Canal Reach, London, N1C 4DB, United Kingdom
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:03185450
founded: 1996-04-12
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/sony-group-corporation | | | | | sourced | ^ch-smeukh-psc | Companies House persons-with-significant-control entry for 03185450 names Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, as the sole active person with significant control, notified 6 April 2016, with 75 per cent or more of the shares and voting rights |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited | legal | | | |
| Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK Holdings) Limited | legal | | 2006-06-12 | 2009-01-02 |
| BMG Europe Ltd. | legal | | 2002-02-04 | 2006-06-12 |
| BMG UK Limited | legal | | 1997-08-28 | 2002-02-04 |
| Burginhall 889 Limited | legal | | 1996-04-12 | 1997-08-28 |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | -------- | --------- | --------- | ----------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| ch-smeukh | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450 | Companies House: Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-19 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | overview and previous company names | | | |
| ch-smeukh-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185450/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited, 03185450 | 2026-09-19 | Companies House | registry | | 03185450 | persons with significant control | | | |
| ch-psc | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01471066/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: persons with significant control, Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, 01471066 | 2026-09-19 | Companies House | registry | | 01471066 | persons with significant control | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Sony Music Entertainment UK Holdings Limited is a private limited company registered in England on 12 April 1996 under number 03185450, with its registered office at 2 Canal Reach, London N1C 4DB and "activities of head offices" as its declared business; it is active and its last accounts were made up to 31 March 2025.[^ch-smeukh] It is the sole active person with significant control of Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited, the Sony group's British record company, holding 75 per cent or more of that company's shares and voting rights, notified on 6 April 2016.[^ch-psc]
The company was registered as Burginhall 889 Limited, became BMG UK Limited on 28 August 1997, BMG Europe Ltd. on 4 February 2002 and Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK Holdings) Limited on 12 June 2006, and took its present name on 2 January 2009, the same day the record company below it did.[^ch-smeukh] Its own sole active person with significant control is Sony Group Corporation of Tokyo, registration number 5010401067252, notified on 6 April 2016.[^ch-smeukh-psc] No filing read here names the companies that sit between the two, and no site, encyclopedia article or LEI record of this holding company was found, so nothing beyond the register is recorded on this page.
<!--/about-->