Soundway Publishing Limited

Soundway Publishing Limited is the publishing arm of Soundway Records, the London reissue label built by Miles Cleret from licensed African, Caribbean and Latin American recordings. Incorporated in 2012, a decade after the label itself, Soundway Publishing administers the composition side of that catalogue and represents its affiliated writers, including the Ghanaian and Nigerian estates and artists behind the label’s “Special” reissue series.

Ownership sits with the same group that controls the record label: Third Side Music Inc. of Montreal holds 51% following a July 2021 deal, with founder Miles Cleret and London director Paula Duran Ardila each holding 24.5%, per the Companies House PSC register. The two Soundway entities share directors in Patrick Curley and Jeff Waye, both Third Side Music principals, but are registered separately. Soundway Publishing’s visible work is largely in sync licensing, placing catalogue songs in film, television, advertising and games.

Its place in this directory rests on the same basis as the record label: a UK company whose core asset is publishing rights to decades of licensed Ghanaian and Nigerian compositions, administered and monetised from London rather than from the countries the music comes from.