Zuchu’s own catalogue cannot settle on who owns her masters. Reading Apple Music’s full 79-release catalogue for her artist account directly, on both the US and Tanzania storefronts, and cross-checking it against Deezer’s separate catalogue API, this desk counted at least seven different names on the phonographic copyright line of her own-artist releases since she signed to WCB Wasafi in April 2020: WCB Wasafi itself, Ziiki Media, a company called Wasafi Limited, a separately named Wasafi Media, a fuller “25 Wasafi Limited” credit naming Warner Music Africa as distributor, her own legal name Zuhura Othman Soud, and her stage name alone. One of those names, Wasafi Limited, belongs to a real UK company that stopped existing in July 2021. It kept appearing on new Zuchu releases for two and a half years after that.
The full deal record, with every source checked, is here.
A clean signing, then a credit line that never settles#
Zuchu’s start is the one part of this story with no ambiguity in it. A Tanzanian newsroom report published the morning after confirms Diamond Platnumz unveiled her as a WCB Wasafi artist on the night of 8 April 2020, with her debut single out within hours. No ownership terms were published then and none have been published since. What this record tracks is not that signing, which nobody disputes, but what happened to the printed rightsholder credit on her music afterward.
For the first two years, the credit is unremarkable. Several early singles carry no company name at all, just Apple’s generic territorial placeholder. “Shangilia” (2 November 2020), “Sukari” (20 January 2021) and the Zuchu Unplugged EP (5 March 2021) carry “WCB WASAFI” outright. That is the credit a reader would expect from a straightforward label signing, and WCB Wasafi keeps reappearing on it as late as 2026, on the political single “Hussein Mwinyi” and on “Baridi” in January of that year.
From “I Miss You” in January 2022 onward, the credit shifts to “Ziiki Media,” and that name becomes the dominant one through 2024 and 2025: Utaniua, Napambana, Two, Antenna, Pwita, Raha, Reason and more than a dozen others all carry it. Ziiki Media is the same South African company this desk has already documented as the credited rightsholder on Diamond Platnumz’s own releases, so its appearance on Zuchu’s catalogue is not itself a surprise.
A company that stopped existing in 2021, still printed in 2024#
What is a surprise sits between those two periods. Seven releases between 5 May 2023 and 14 February 2024, including “Nani,” “Honey,” “Naringa,” “Chapati” and “Shika,” carry the credit “Wasafi Limited.” That is not a generic label name. Companies House, the UK’s company register, lists exactly one company that has ever used it: number 12346593, incorporated on 3 December 2019 with two officers, Halima Mudeey Caliyow as director and Mina Ali as company secretary, both listed at a London correspondence address. That company never filed a single set of accounts or a confirmation statement. The register moved its registered office to Companies House’s own default address in April 2021, a formal signal of a company whose directors have stopped responding to the register, and compulsory strike-off proceedings dissolved it on 13 July 2021.
Every one of the seven “Wasafi Limited” releases came out after that date, the most recent nearly two and a half years later. A UK company-name search for “25 Wasafi Limited” and “Wasafi Media” returns zero results for either; neither has ever existed as a UK-registered company. Whether “Wasafi Limited” as printed on these releases refers to the dissolved UK company, a different entity registered somewhere this desk could not check (Tanzania’s BRELA registry has no public search available), or a trading name with no company behind it at all, could not be established. What can be established is that the printed credit kept running for years after the only company that ever legally held that exact name had stopped existing.
Two pages, same single, two different credits, right now#
The clearest sign that nobody is maintaining a single source of truth on this catalogue is a single song. “Inama,” Zuchu’s duet with Diamond Platnumz, exists on Apple Music as two separate catalogue entries, both dated 11 September 2025. Fetching both release pages directly and reading their underlying markup, rather than trusting a summary of either, shows one page carrying the credit “25 Wasafi Limited distributed exclusively by Warner Music Africa & Ziiki Media,” and the other carrying “Ziiki Media” alone, with no Wasafi or Warner text anywhere on that second page.
This matters beyond the single release. This site corrected an earlier report in August 2026 stating that a re-check of this exact song’s page markup had found no “25 Wasafi Limited” text, and that the credit was Ziiki Media alone. Re-checking again for this record, six weeks later, found that text live on one of the two catalogue entries for the same single. This record does not resolve the contradiction. The August check may have missed the second catalogue entry, Apple’s metadata may have changed in the interim, or both entries may have existed the whole time without both being checked. What is not in question is that the contradiction exists, between this site’s own prior correction and what two live pages for the same song show today, and it is flagged here rather than quietly resolved in one direction.
A final, smaller name turned up in Deezer’s separate catalogue field, which tracks distribution and handling rather than the phonographic credit itself: “Pink Deenz,” attached to the solo version of “Inama.” No public record of any kind for that name turned up in any source checked.
What this means for artists#
The name on your release page is not a legal filing, and it can drift without anyone announcing it. Zuchu’s catalogue shows a rightsholder credit moving through at least seven names over six years with no public explanation for any of the changes. The company printed on your DSP pages today may not be the one printed there eighteen months ago, and nobody is obligated to tell you when it changes.
A dissolved company printed on a live release is worth asking your own team about, not assuming away. Seven releases here carried a UK company’s exact name for years after that company had legally ceased to exist. That alone does not prove anything sinister happened to the underlying rights, since a label can keep using a name informally long after the entity behind it is wound up. It does mean the printed credit stopped describing any real legal person.
Check your own release pages directly, on more than one platform, and ask who is behind a company name before you sign. This record only exists because Apple and Deezer were checked separately, release by release, rather than trusting either platform’s summary. A single contradiction between platforms, the way this record found two different credits on two pages for the same song, is itself information worth having before you sign anything, not after.
How this was verified#
Primary sources: the full Apple Music catalogue for Zuchu’s artist account, read directly via Apple’s own lookup API on 10 October 2026, 79 entries, independently confirmed identical on the US and Tanzania storefronts; Deezer’s separate catalogue API, checked release by release for a sample spanning 2020 to 2025; the live page markup of both Apple catalogue entries for “Inama (feat. Diamond Platnumz),” fetched directly rather than through any summary; and the UK Companies House register, checked for the company record, officer list and filing history of Wasafi Limited (company number 12346593), plus separate name searches for “25 Wasafi,” “Wasafi Media” and “Ziiki,” each returning zero UK company results. A Tanzanian newsroom report from April 2020 was checked directly to confirm the date of Zuchu’s WCB Wasafi signing. No equivalent to Companies House exists publicly for Tanzania’s own business registry, BRELA, so the identity of the entity behind the “Wasafi Limited” credit could not be independently confirmed there. No party named in this record was reached for comment before publication.
Quick answers#
Does Zuchu own her own masters?#
Not established. No document checked for this record states who owns the sound-recording rights to Zuchu’s catalogue. What is established is that the printed rightsholder credit on her releases has used at least seven different names since her 2020 signing, with no public announcement explaining any of the changes.
What is Wasafi Limited?#
A UK company, number 12346593, incorporated in December 2019 and dissolved by compulsory strike-off in July 2021 after never filing accounts. Its exact name appears as the rightsholder credit on seven Zuchu releases dated between May 2023 and February 2024, all after the company had legally ceased to exist. Whether that credit refers to this company, a different entity, or no registered company at all could not be established.
Why do two pages for the same song show different credits?#
Apple Music carries two separate catalogue entries for “Inama (feat. Diamond Platnumz),” both dated 11 September 2025. One carries the credit “25 Wasafi Limited distributed exclusively by Warner Music Africa & Ziiki Media.” The other carries “Ziiki Media” alone. Both were confirmed live in their page markup on 10 October 2026. This record does not resolve which, if either, is the single intended credit for the song.
How much is Zuchu’s WCB Wasafi deal worth?#
Not disclosed. No contract, price, revenue share or royalty split has been published by WCB Wasafi, Ziiki Media, Warner Music Group or Zuchu herself in any document checked for this record.