Sampa The Great Pty Ltd
Melbourne artist-owned rights holding company, named owner of the sound recording copyright on Sampa the Great's recordings.
- Based in
- Melbourne (VIC 3000), Australia
Sampa The Great Pty Ltd is the Australian private company named as the owner of the sound recording copyright on the recent catalogue of the Zambian rapper and singer Sampa Tembo, who records as Sampa the Great. It is recorded on the Australian Business Register under ABN 30 620 975 082 and ACN 620 975 082, as an Australian Private Company, with an ABN active from 12 August 2017 and a main business location of VIC 3000, central Melbourne. The register shows it registered for GST from the same date, 12 August 2017, and records the entry as last updated on 9 January 2026.
The company is named in the phonographic copyright line on her second album As Above, So Below (9 September 2022), its deluxe edition (12 May 2023), the single “Can’t Hold Us” (14 November 2025) and her third album Nu Zamrock (30 October 2026). On each of those releases the credit reads that the company owns the recording and that it is licensed, exclusively, to Loma Vista Recordings. The company is therefore the licensor in that relationship, not the licensee.
The first release on which the company appears is the single “Lane”, dated 26 April 2022. That is four years and eight months after the company was registered. For the whole of the intervening period her recordings were credited to other owners: Big Dada in 2017, Ninja Tune in 2019 and 2020. The company existed while those credits ran, and the registers do not explain why.
Credits reading “Sampa The Great” without the corporate suffix appear earlier, on “F E M A L E” (2015) and on four 2017 singles released around Red Bull Sound Select. Those predate or straddle the 12 August 2017 registration date and cannot be read as naming this company. No document fetched for this profile establishes who holds the shares in Sampa The Great Pty Ltd, who its directors are, or what its accounts show: the Australian Business Register entry does not carry officeholder or shareholding detail, and no paid ASIC company extract was purchased. Her publishing could not be established at all.