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TheCAPMusic, Inc.

Lagos-based Nigerian record label and management company built around founder Spinall, independently owned, with an exclusive worldwide licence to Epic Records/Sony Music Entertainment since June 2023.

Based in
Lagos, Nigeria
Founded
Disputed between two of the company's own sources. Billboard and multiple artist biographies date its founding to 2014. The label's own website, thecapmusic.live, states it "was founded in 2019." Neither figure is corroborated by a public company register; Nigeria's CAC has no public search tool this desk could check.
Founders
Spinall (Oluseye Desmond Sodamola), per Billboard and the label's own site

TheCAPMusic is a Lagos-based Nigerian record label and artist management company built around its founder, DJ and producer Spinall (Oluseye Desmond Sodamola). It holds the master recordings for Spinall’s catalogue; the label’s own site dates its founding to 2019, though Billboard and other trade coverage place it in 2014. Nigeria’s corporate registry has no public search tool this desk could check, so the exact founding date and legal registration remain unresolved rather than guessed.

The company is independently owned and operated by Spinall. No parent company, equity sale or acquisition is disclosed or claimed by any source checked. Phonographic (recording copyright) credits on Spinall’s releases name TheCAPMusic, Inc. as rights holder from at least 2015 through 2025.

Since June 2023, TheCAPMusic’s masters have carried an exclusive worldwide licence to Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, confirmed on release credits and in trade reporting at the time. Spinall was previously reported, in September 2018, to hold an international recording deal with Atlantic Records UK and a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music UK; no release checked for this record carries either credit.

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