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Devo Entity Holdings (Pty) Ltd

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South Africa

Devo Entity Holdings (Pty) Ltd is the company named as licensor on the Apple phonogram credit line of The Big Hash’s first two releases issued through Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd. The line on “ANOTHER DAY” (2 November 2023) and on the album “HEARTBREAK HOTEL” (15 March 2024) reads “℗ 2023 South Africa - Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd, under exclusive licence from Devo Entity Holdings (Pty) Ltd”, with the year updating to 2024 on the album.

A shorter form of the name, “DEVO ENTITY”, with no “Holdings” and no company suffix, carries the phonogram credit directly on four earlier self-released records by the same artist: “Aries: A Precursor to Heartbreak Hotel” (19 November 2021), “Bigger Than Us” (4 February 2022), “Sharpshooter” (5 August 2022), “Home Run” (16 September 2022) and “Better Late Than Never” (18 November 2022). Deezer’s label field on the 2022 releases also reads “DEVO ENTITY”. Whether the short form and the registered “(Pty) Ltd” form denote the same legal person is not established by any document reviewed.

Almost nothing else about this company is on the public record. This desk located no website, no social account, no filing and no press statement issued in its name. Its directors, shareholders, registration number and date of incorporation are all unknown. Its relationship to Devo Music Group (Pty) Ltd, which replaces it as the named licensor on the same artist’s releases from late 2024 onward, is unresolved: the two may be one company renamed, or two related but distinct companies. The South African CIPC company register, which is not publicly searchable without an account, was not checked by this desk and is the obvious next step for anyone trying to settle the question.

The entry exists because the company appears in the licensor position on a major-label phonogram line, which makes it, on the face of that document, the party from which Sony Music Entertainment Africa (Pty) Ltd took rights. Nothing here establishes what those rights were, how long they run, or who controls the company.

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