Rema’s “Calm Down” Producer Signed a French Publishing Joint Venture in 2022. The Companies Register Shows It Was Dissolved by an Owner Nobody Named.

A French publishing joint venture that a Nigerian-British hitmaker described in a 2022 interview no longer exists, and the official register that recorded its end does not name who held it at the time. Michael Ovie Hunter, who produces as Thisizlondon and co-produced Rema’s “Calm Down”, said in a profile published 22 April 2022 that he had signed a publishing venture between Sony Music Publishing France and an independent company called Blue Sky Publishing. Blue Sky Publishing, registered in France as a small SAS with 800 EUR of capital, was struck off the French companies register on 6 May 2025. The dissolution notice names no buyer, no successor and no price. It says only that “the sole shareholder” decided to dissolve the company without liquidation. France’s official gazette for commercial notices does not say who that shareholder was.

What the interview said, and what came before the paperwork

Hunter was born in Kaduna in 1999 and built his production catalogue through Mavin-linked imprint Blowtime Entertainment before his work on Rema’s catalogue, including “Calm Down”, made him one of the most credited producers in Afrobeats. In a magazine profile published 22 April 2022, he described signing “his first publishing venture” as a joint arrangement between Sony Music Publishing France and Blue Sky Publishing. No financial terms were given, and none have been found anywhere else.

Blue Sky Publishing itself predates that interview by eight years. France’s companies register shows it incorporated on 28 May 2014, trading under the commercial name Ciel Bleu Editions, with Sacha Lussamaki as its president from 18 June 2016 and a share capital of 800 EUR, a figure that never changed across the company’s eleven-year life.

The transfer that was announced, then undone

The register shows a sequence that the 2022 interview does not mention at all. On 20 June 2024, Blue Sky Publishing moved its registered office to 27 rue de Berri, 75008 Paris, which was at that time Sony Music Publishing (France) SAS’s own registered address. A legal notice dated 30 July 2024 announced a Transmission Universelle de Patrimoine, a full transfer of assets and liabilities under French company law, between Blue Sky Publishing and Sony Music Publishing (France) SAS. On 9 August 2024, the register recorded Sony Music Publishing (France) SAS as Blue Sky’s president, replacing Lussamaki in that role.

Then, on 23 October 2024, a second legal notice annulled the first. Its own wording states that the 30 July 2024 announcement “is null and void. It will have no legal effect.” No replacement transaction was announced in its place. Sony Music Publishing (France) SAS remained recorded as Blue Sky’s president through to the end.

A catalogue trail, but not a complete one

Ciel Bleu Editions, Blue Sky Publishing’s trading name, appears as a registered SACEM publisher share on two Rema compositions co-written by Hunter, “Bounce” and “Oroma Baby”, alongside Sony Music Publishing, Sony ATV Music Publishing France, Warner Chappell’s Keyboard Music Ltd and Mavin Global Holdings. That confirms Blue Sky held a real publisher share in at least part of Hunter’s catalogue. It does not confirm which song, or how much of his output, the 2022 joint venture actually covered, and this desk found no registered Ciel Bleu Editions or Blue Sky Publishing share on “Calm Down” itself.

What this means for artists

An announced joint venture is not a fixed state, and nobody has to tell you when it changes. Hunter’s 2022 interview described a two-party structure. The French register shows that structure moving through a proposed full transfer, an annulment of that transfer, and finally a dissolution, all without a single public statement from either company. If your publishing sits inside a small independent that is itself part of a joint venture with a major, the independent half can be restructured or wound down without your deal being renegotiated in public, or at all.

Watch who holds the “president” seat at your publisher, not just who signed your contract. The point at which Sony Music Publishing (France) SAS was recorded as Blue Sky Publishing’s president, 9 August 2024, is the clearest evidence in this record of which party controlled the company in its final year. That is a register fact, free to check, and it told more about who was actually in charge than the original joint-venture announcement did.

A cancelled filing is not the same as nothing happening. The 30 July 2024 transfer notice and its 23 October 2024 annulment sit three months apart on the public record. Whatever that reversal was about, it happened inside the company holding part of your publishing, and it left no replacement transaction on file. If you administer rights through a small company tied to a major by a joint venture, it is worth asking your administrator directly, in writing, whether the company is still the same legal entity it was when you signed, and who its shareholder of record is today.

What is not established

• Who held Blue Sky Publishing’s shares at dissolution. The 3 April 2025 notice names “the sole shareholder” but does not identify that party. Sony Music Publishing (France) SAS is documented only as Blue Sky’s president from 9 August 2024 and as the counterparty named in the annulled 30 July 2024 transfer notice, not as a shareholder of record.
• Why the July 2024 transfer was annulled. Neither notice gives a reason, and no statement from either company about it has been located.
• Any consideration for the 2022 joint venture. No fee, advance, royalty split or equity split for the original arrangement between Sony Music Publishing France and Blue Sky Publishing is disclosed anywhere this desk checked.
• Whether “Calm Down” itself carries a Blue Sky Publishing or Ciel Bleu Editions share. The confirmed registered shares are on “Bounce” and “Oroma Baby”. No Ciel Bleu Editions or Blue Sky Publishing credit was found on “Calm Down” in the sources checked.
• What happened to Blue Sky Publishing’s catalogue after dissolution. A dissolution without liquidation under French law typically passes a company’s assets to its sole shareholder, but since that shareholder is not named in the notice, where the catalogue sits today is not established here.
• Any statement from the parties. No comment from Sony Music Publishing France, Sacha Lussamaki or Thisizlondon about the dissolution has been located.

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