Fuse ODG Has Released Records Under Six Different Ownership Credits Since 2012. On Four of Them 3 Beat Owns the Master Outright, and No Company Named Off Da Ground Has Ever Existed on the UK Register

October 18, 2026 3 min read

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WHAT THE CATALOGUE SAYS. 84 releases credited to Fuse ODG, the British-Ghanaian artist whose legal name is Nana Richard Abiona, were read from Apple's catalogue on 18 October 2026, dated 2012 to 25 May 2026. The phonographic copyright notice, the line that begins with the sound-recording symbol and is where the delivering party asserts who owns the master, resolves to 46 distinct strings across those 84 releases. Six different structures appear.

1. OFF DA GROUND AS OWNER, 3 BEAT AS LICENSEE. Four releases. "2012 Off Da Ground under exclusive licence to 3Beat Productions Ltd." on the Antenna remix EP; the same wording dated 2013 on the Antenna EP of 2 June 2013; "2022 Off Da Ground under exclusive licence to 3Beat Productions Ltd." on "What It Do", 8 July 2022; and "2022 Off Da Ground, under exclusive licence to 3Beat Productions Limited" on "Get Down", 28 October 2022.

2. 3 BEAT AS OWNER, ODG RECORDS AS LICENSOR. Eight releases, 2013 to 2015. "2013 3 Beat Productions Ltd under exclusive licence from ODG Records" on the Azonto EP, the Azonto dancehall remix with Elephant Man, and both Million Pound Girl releases; the same formula dated 2014 on Million Pound Girl and dated 2015 on "Only", "Top Of My Charts" and the Top of My Charts remixes. This is structure 1 with the parties swapped. Both forms appear in the same store, for the same artist, inside an eighteen-month window.

3. 3 BEAT AS OWNER, ALL AROUND THE WORLD AS LICENSEE. Two releases, both 2014: "2014 3Beat Productions Limited Under Exclusive License To All Around The World Limited" on "Dangerous Love (feat. Sean Paul)" and on the Dangerous Love remix EP. Deezer independently names All Around The World in the label field on the debut album T.I.N.A. and T.I.N.A. (Remixes), both October and November 2014, and MusicBrainz holds parallel T.I.N.A. entries dated 19 October 2014 on 3 Beat Productions and on All Around the World.

4. OFF DA GROUND AS OWNER, 2TE RECORDS AND WARNER AS LICENSEES. Eight releases, June 2017 to April 2020. Six read "Off Da Ground Under Licence to 2TE Records/Warner Records Inc. UK", covering "Window Seat" and its TCTS remix, "Boa Me (feat. Ed Sheeran & Mugeez)" and two of its remixes, and "Island". Two read "Off Da Ground Under Licence to 2TE Records/Warner Bros. Records UK", covering "Lazy Day (feat. Danny Ocean)" and its MOTi remix. Deezer's label field on the same releases reads Atlantic Records, Warner Records and 2TE Records.

5. OFF DA GROUND OR ODG RECORDS STANDING ALONE. 36 releases, May 2016 to May 2026, including the albums New Africa Nation and its deluxe edition, both credited "2018 Off Da Ground Records", and the 2025 albums Spirit of New Africa and 54 Countries: The Full Journey, both credited "2025 Off Da ground" with a lower-case g.

6. 3 BEAT PRODUCTIONS LIMITED STANDING ALONE, WITH NO MENTION OF THE ARTIST'S IMPRINT. Four releases. "2021 3Beat Productions Limited" on "African Lady (Antenna)", 22 November 2021, which is a reissue of the 2012 breakthrough record whose original notice named Off Da Ground as owner; and "2022 3Beat Productions Limited" on "Back To The Streets", 29 April 2022, with its Deekline and Lexyz remixes of 13 May and 3 June 2022. On these four the artist's own imprint does not appear in the ownership credit at all.

ONE RELEASE, TWO NOTICES, SAME DAY. "Jinja" appears twice in the same storefront dated 16 September 2016, one copy credited "2016 Off Da Ground" and the other "2016 ODG Records".

THE IMPRINT IS NOT A REGISTERED COMPANY. Companies House advanced company search for names containing "off da ground" returns "No results found". The same search for "odg records" returns "No results found". That search includes dissolved companies, which was confirmed by a control search for "odg publishing", returning the dissolved ODG PUBLISHING LIMITED, company number 08540812, incorporated 22 May 2013 and dissolved on 18 September 2018. No company of either name has ever been on the United Kingdom register.

THE COMPANIES THAT ARE REGISTERED. 3 BEAT PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, company number 06303673, is a Liverpool company incorporated on 5 July 2007, status Active, whose sole person with significant control is Mr Jon Paul Barlow with 75 per cent or more of the shares. ALL AROUND THE WORLD LIMITED, company number 05853895, is a London company whose sole active person with significant control is Universal Music Operations Limited, registration number 950138, with 75 per cent or more of the shares, 75 per cent or more of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors.

UNIVERSAL ALREADY HELD HALF OF THE 2014 LICENSEE. The annual return of All Around The World Limited made up to 21 June 2013 records 200 issued shares in two classes, both stated to carry voting rights: 24 Ordinary-A held by Matthew Glyn Cadman, 76 Ordinary-A held by John Crispin Nuttall, and 100 Ordinary-B held by UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED. The return made up to 21 June 2014 records the identical position. At the date of the "Dangerous Love" credit, therefore, the company named as exclusive licensee was half owned and half controlled by a Universal company, which the credit does not disclose. The register then shows the minority leaving: both other directors were terminated on 30 June 2017, share class designations and share rights were varied in filings of 14 July 2017, and on 22 August 2017 John Crispin Nuttall ceased to be a person with significant control while Universal Music Operations Limited's own persons-with-significant-control details changed on the same day.

THE LABEL ON THE 2019 ALBUM WAS IN LIQUIDATION. Deezer names London Mobile Studios in the label field on five Fuse ODG releases including the 2019 album New Africa Nation and its deluxe edition. LONDON MOBILE STUDIOS LIMITED, company number 06884748, SIC 59200, was incorporated on 22 April 2009 with Nana Richard Abiona as director and Andre Hackett as secretary. It entered creditors' voluntary liquidation with commencement of winding up on 31 August 2018, seven months before that album was released, and was dissolved on 18 May 2026.

THE ARTIST'S OTHER MUSIC COMPANIES. ODG PUBLISHING LIMITED, 08540812, was dissolved on 18 September 2018. NEW AFRICA NATION LTD, 12827285, incorporated 20 August 2020 with Abiona and Andre Hackett as its two directors and two persons with significant control at more than 25 but not more than 50 per cent each, is Active with an active proposal to strike off, accounts overdue since 31 May 2024 and a confirmation statement overdue since 2 September 2024. It appears in no release credit located for this record.

Type

Licensing

Parties

Off Da Ground, 3 Beat Productions Limited, All Around The World Limited, Universal Music Operations Limited, London Mobile Studios Limited, Warner Records Inc.

Amount

Not disclosed Not disclosed. No advance, royalty rate, split, fee or share price appears in any notice, filing or statement located for any party to this record, including the change in the All Around The World Limited shareholding between 2014 and 2017.

Rights covered

MASTER RECORDINGS ONLY. Every claim in this record concerns the sound recording copyright, which is what the phonographic copyright notice asserts. Nothing here concerns the compositions.

WHAT THE NOTICES GRANT. Where the notice reads "A under exclusive licence to B", A asserts ownership of the master and B asserts an exclusive licence to exploit it. Where it reads "B under exclusive licence from A", the same two roles are stated in the opposite order with B as owner. These are different legal positions: an owner holds the copyright, an exclusive licensee holds a time-limited and territory-limited right to exploit a copyright somebody else owns. The Fuse ODG catalogue states both positions for the same two parties, 3 Beat Productions and Off Da Ground, at different dates.

NO TERM IS STATED ANYWHERE. Not one of the 84 notices gives a term, an expiry, a reversion date or a renewal. No filing or statement located gives one either.

PUBLISHING NOT ESTABLISHED. No publisher or administrator of any Fuse ODG composition was identified for this record. ODG PUBLISHING LIMITED, 08540812, is the only publishing company on the register bearing the artist's initials and it was dissolved on 18 September 2018. Whether any composition was ever registered to it, and where administration sits now, could not be established.

DISTRIBUTION NOT ESTABLISHED. No notice in this catalogue names a distributor on a separate line, with one exception outside the artist's own catalogue: "Game Over", 27 March 2026, reads "2026 MicBurnerz Music / ONErpm". Whether Fuse ODG is the primary artist on that release was not confirmed. For the 36 releases crediting Off Da Ground alone, the route to retail is not stated and no aggregator is named.

NO TRANSFER IS EVIDENCED. Nothing in this record evidences a sale, assignment or buy-back of any master. The six credit structures are six statements made at different dates by the parties delivering the releases. They are consistent with a changing contractual position, with inconsistent metadata, or with both, and the documents do not distinguish between those possibilities.

Territory

NOT STATED IN ANY NOTICE. None of the 84 phonogram notices states a territory for any licence, including the ones that use the words "exclusive licence".

WHAT WAS TESTED. The catalogue was read twice, once against Apple's United Kingdom storefront and once against its United States storefront, specifically to test whether the ownership credit varies by territory. 84 collections were returned for the United Kingdom and 73 for the United States. On every release present in both, the copyright string is byte-identical: zero differences. The chain described in this record is therefore not a territorial artefact.

THE ONLY REGIONAL VARIANCE. The United States editions of the 2017 and 2018 Warner-period releases read "Warner Records Inc." where the United Kingdom editions read "Warner Records Inc. UK". That is a difference in how the licensee is named, not in who is named as owner.

COMPANY JURISDICTIONS. 3 Beat Productions Limited, All Around The World Limited, London Mobile Studios Limited, ODG Publishing Limited and New Africa Nation Ltd are all registered in England and Wales. Universal Music Operations Limited is recorded as incorporated in England, governing law United Kingdom (England). No African incorporation was identified for any party to this record.

Announced

2012-01-01

Primary document

Rights registry

Sources

Read this before citing: READ THIS BEFORE CITING.

WHAT A PHONOGRAM NOTICE IS. It is an assertion made by whoever delivered the release to the shop. It is not a contract, not a register and not an instrument of transfer. It can be stale, it can be entered wrongly, and it is routinely rewritten when a back catalogue is redelivered under a new arrangement. This record reports what the notices say and the dates they say it. It does not treat any notice as proof of a legal position.

WHAT IS ESTABLISHED.
1. The exact wording and date of all 84 notices, read directly from Apple's catalogue endpoint on 18 October 2026, and the fact that the United Kingdom and United States storefronts agree on every shared release.
2. Independent corroboration of the label attributions from Deezer's album endpoints and from MusicBrainz, including the 3Beat140, 3Beat148, 3Beat162 and 3Beat174 catalogue numbers on the early releases.
3. That no company named Off Da Ground or ODG Records has ever been on the United Kingdom register, from the register's own advanced search, with a passing control test proving that search returns dissolved companies.
4. The registered particulars, officers and persons with significant control of 3 Beat Productions Limited, All Around The World Limited, London Mobile Studios Limited, ODG Publishing Limited and New Africa Nation Ltd.
5. That Universal Music Operations Limited held 100 of 200 voting shares in All Around The World Limited as at 21 June 2013 and 21 June 2014, from the company's own filed annual returns, read page by page from the scanned originals.
6. That London Mobile Studios Limited was in creditors' voluntary liquidation from 31 August 2018.

WHAT IS NOT ESTABLISHED, AND WHAT WAS CHECKED.

A. WHO LEGALLY OWNS THE MASTERS. No assignment, licence, settlement or court document was located for any Fuse ODG recording. The six credit structures are the only published claims of record, and two of them contradict each other.

B. WHICH LEGAL ENTITY TRADES AS OFF DA GROUND. The name is not on the register. Two registered companies controlled by Nana Richard Abiona are candidates and neither is confirmed: London Mobile Studios Limited, which Deezer names as label on five releases whose Apple notice reads Off Da Ground or ODG Records, and New Africa Nation Ltd, which appears in no credit at all. The identification is not made in this record.

C. 2TE RECORDS. Companies House advanced search for names containing "2TE" returns one company, 2TE ISLAND LTD, 09561532, a Reading company under SIC codes 68320 and 96090, dissolved on 30 January 2024. Those codes are real estate agency and other personal service activities. It is not a record company and no connection to this catalogue is alleged. No United Kingdom company trading as 2TE Records was identified.

D. CONSIDERATION. No advance, royalty rate, split, fee or payment appears in any notice, filing or statement located. The All Around The World share position changed between 2014 and 2017 and no filing discloses what was paid for it. "Not disclosed" is the honest answer on every money question in this record.

E. A STATEMENT FROM THE ARTIST. No public statement by Fuse ODG or by Off Da Ground asserting ownership, reversion or a buy-back of his own masters was located. Published remarks attributed to him on rights concern a signed artist's contract, not his own catalogue.

F. PUBLISHING. No performing-rights or mechanical repertory record for any Fuse ODG composition was obtained.

G. THE 2012 DATE. Apple returns 1 January as the release date for the earliest items, which is a placeholder rather than a street date. The announced date on this record, 1 January 2012, is the earliest release in the catalogue bearing a licence credit. It is not the commencement date of any agreement, which is not established.

H. WHETHER ANY MASTER WAS AN ASSET IN THE LIQUIDATION. No liquidator's report, statement of affairs or progress report for London Mobile Studios Limited was obtained, and no claim is made that any recording formed part of that estate.

PRECISION TRAP. Both persons-with-significant-control entries at All Around The World Limited, and the entry at 3 Beat Productions Limited, carry "Notified on 6 April 2016". That is the commencement date of the persons-with-significant-control regime. It is a day-one filing artefact and it is not a transaction date. The only dated change in control on that register is 22 August 2017.

METHOD. Apple's lookup endpoint was read for artist 362668958 against both the gb and us storefronts and the two result sets were compared programmatically by collection identifier. Deezer's artist and album endpoints were read for artist 3038541, 63 albums, each album fetched individually for its label field. MusicBrainz was queried for releases credited to the artist. Every Companies House page cited was fetched and read in full, and the two annual returns are scanned images that were downloaded, rendered to page images and read visually rather than parsed. All reads were done on 18 October 2026.

RIGHT OF REPLY. Fuse ODG, Off Da Ground, 3 Beat Productions Limited, All Around The World Limited, Universal Music Operations Limited and Warner are each invited to state the ownership position and the term of any licence over these recordings. This record will be amended on production of a document. Until one of them does, the 84 notices and the register stand as the record.

Nothing in this record changed hands on a date anyone has published. What changed is the credit line, six times, over fourteen years, on the catalogue of one artist.

84 releases credited to Fuse ODG were read from Apple’s catalogue on 18 October 2026. The phonographic copyright notice on them resolves to 46 distinct strings and six distinct ownership structures. On four releases the artist’s own imprint, Off Da Ground, is named as owner and 3 Beat Productions as the exclusive licensee. On eight others the identical relationship is stated in reverse, with 3 Beat named as owner licensing from ODG Records. On four more, including the 2021 reissue of the record that broke him, 3 Beat Productions Limited is named as sole owner and Off Da Ground does not appear at all.

Off Da Ground is not a company. Companies House advanced search for names containing “off da ground” returns “No results found”, and so does the same search for “odg records”. That search returns dissolved companies, which was confirmed with a control test. No company of either name has ever been on the United Kingdom register.

The six structures

Dates	Count	Owner named	Licensee named
2012, 2013, 2022	4	Off Da Ground	3Beat Productions Ltd
2013 to 2015	8	3 Beat Productions Ltd	None. Licence stated as being from ODG Records
2014	2	3Beat Productions Limited	All Around The World Limited
2017 to 2020	8	Off Da Ground	2TE Records / Warner Records Inc. UK, later Warner Bros. Records UK
2016 to 2026	36	Off Da Ground, ODG Records or Off Da Ground Records	None
2021, 2022	4	3Beat Productions Limited	None

The second and sixth rows are the ones that matter. “A under exclusive licence to B” and “B under exclusive licence from A” put the same two parties on opposite sides of the same copyright. Both appear in the same store, for the same artist, within eighteen months of each other.

What the register adds

The 2014 single “Dangerous Love” names All Around The World Limited as the exclusive licensee. The annual returns that company filed for 21 June 2013 and 21 June 2014 record 200 issued shares across two classes, both carrying votes: 24 to Matthew Glyn Cadman, 76 to John Crispin Nuttall, and 100 to Universal Music Operations Limited. Half the equity and half the votes sat with a Universal company at the moment of the credit, and the credit says nothing about it.

The minority then left. Both other directors were terminated on 30 June 2017, share rights were varied that July, and on 22 August 2017 John Crispin Nuttall ceased to be a person with significant control while Universal’s own entry changed on the same day. Universal Music Operations Limited is now the only active person with significant control, at 75 per cent or more of the shares and votes, with the right to appoint or remove directors. What was paid is not in any filing.

Separately, Deezer names London Mobile Studios as the label on five Fuse ODG releases including the 2019 album New Africa Nation. LONDON MOBILE STUDIOS LIMITED, 06884748, whose director is Nana Richard Abiona and whose secretary is Andre Hackett, entered creditors’ voluntary liquidation on 31 August 2018, seven months before that album came out, and was dissolved on 18 May 2026.

What this does not say

A phonogram notice is an assertion by whoever delivered the release. It is not a contract and not a register. No assignment, licence or settlement for any Fuse ODG recording was located, no term or reversion date appears anywhere in the catalogue, and no consideration is disclosed for anything described here. Which legal entity trades as Off Da Ground is not established. Whether any recording was an asset in the London Mobile Studios liquidation is not established and is not alleged. The full list of checks that failed is in the caveat below.

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The six structures

What the register adds

What this does not say

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