Youssou N’Dour & TBI Publishing S.A.
Youssou N'Dour's own Senegalese company, named as phonogram owner across most of his catalogue and as the contracting party in Universal Music Africa's October 2021 partnership announcement.
- Based in
- Dakar, inferred from the artist's base and not confirmed by a registration document, Senegal
- Founded
- Not established. The name appears in a phonogram line dated 1992 (Special Noel) and 1997 (St. Louis), so it predates 1992; no incorporation record was located.
Youssou N’Dour & TBI Publishing S.A. is the company through which the Senegalese singer holds the sound-recording copyright in most of his own catalogue. It is named in full as the contracting party in Universal Music Africa’s press release of 12 October 2021, which announced an exclusive multi-year partnership with the artist and his company.
The company appears in the phonogram position on 37 of the 80 releases listed on the artist’s Apple Music page, and as the label of record on 33 releases in Deezer’s catalogue. Thirty of those releases were first issued between 1982 and 2019 and carry phonogram lines dated 2025, consistent with a catalogue delivery made in that year rather than an original release.
On the two releases that name Universal Music Africa, the credit reads phonogram ownership by this company under exclusive distribution to Universal Music Africa, which describes distribution rather than any transfer of copyright. No corporate registration for the company could be located: Senegal’s commercial register has no resolvable public interface.