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Sony Music Entertainment France

French recorded-music arm of Sony Music, based in Paris; acquired Lusophone-African label Lusafrica in July 2025.

Based in
Paris, France

Sony Music Entertainment France is the French recorded-music arm of Sony Music, registered in Paris as SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT FRANCE SAS (SIREN 542055603). It signs, markets and distributes artists in France and holds imprints including Epic Records France and Blue Sky. Marie-Anne Robert is president; Matthieu Damade is catalogue director and Georges Ouaggini is finance director. The company’s 2024 accounts, filed with the French register, show turnover of EUR 43.3 million and a net loss of EUR 2.16 million.

The company’s link to this directory is its catalogue acquisitions: it bought the Cape Verdean and Lusophone-African label Lusafrica in July 2025 and the Tryo catalogue in June 2026. Sony Music France’s own French filings do not set out the ownership chain up to Sony Music Group globally, and no claim about that chain is made here beyond what the register shows for the French operating entity.

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