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UMG Recordings, Inc.

Delaware-based Universal Music Group entity holding US sound-recording rights, named as phonogram claimant on posthumous Zahara compilations.

Based in
Santa Monica

UMG Recordings, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated Universal Music Group entity based at 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California. A settlement agreement UMG filed with the SEC in 2015 (as an exhibit to Pandora Media’s Q3 10-Q) names it, alongside Capitol Records, LLC, as one of the two entities holding UMG’s United States sound-recording rights, including its pre-1972 catalogue.

The company appears in this directory as the named phonogram claimant on two posthumous Zahara compilations distributed via Apple Music and Deezer, Woman of Power (2023) and African Songbird (2024), both carrying the credit “(P) UMG Recordings, Inc.” through UMG’s Global Clearing House. Its exact corporate relationship to Universal Music Group N.V., the Amsterdam-listed parent, is not established from any document reviewed; the Santa Monica address and sound-recording role rest on the SEC filing, not a press summary.

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