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Sound recording and music publishing activities: 21,287 live UK companies with SIC code 59200
Updated November 7, 2026. Source: Companies House Free Company Data Product.
21,287 live UK companies list SIC code 59200, sound recording and music publishing activities, in the Companies House snapshot dated 1 November 2026. 2,925 of them were incorporated in the last 12 months and 1,232 have an accounts due date that had passed, and 1,451 have a proposal to strike them off the register.
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- 21,287Live companies
- 2,925Incorporated in the last 12 months
- 1,232Accounts overdue
- 1,451Strike off proposed
- 59200SIC code
- 1 November 2026Snapshot
Incorporations per year
Companies incorporated in each year that are still live in the 1 November 2026 snapshot. Companies that closed earlier are not counted, so older years read low.
| Year incorporated | Live companies |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1,249 |
| 2023 | 1,552 |
| 2024 | 1,854 |
| 2025 | 2,776 |
| 2026 so far | 2,501 |
By region
| Region | Live companies |
|---|---|
| London | 9,586 |
| South East | 3,060 |
| East of England | 1,510 |
| North West | 1,426 |
| South West | 1,225 |
| West Midlands | 1,152 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 937 |
| Scotland | 755 |
| East Midlands | 675 |
| Wales | 508 |
| North East | 273 |
| Northern Ireland | 168 |
Towns with the most sound recording and music publishing activities companies
Towns with 100 or more live companies; a link opens the page for this industry in that town.
| Town | Region | Live companies |
|---|---|---|
| London | London | 7,806 |
| Manchester | North West | 410 |
| Birmingham | West Midlands | 311 |
| Sheffield | Yorkshire and The Humber | 285 |
| Bristol | South West | 273 |
| Glasgow | Scotland | 246 |
| Cardiff | Wales | 192 |
| Liverpool | North West | 173 |
| Nottingham | East Midlands | 160 |
| Brighton | South East | 159 |
| Edinburgh | Scotland | 141 |
| Leeds | Yorkshire and The Humber | 139 |
| Croydon | London | 118 |
| Leicester | East Midlands | 117 |
| Bury St Edmunds | East of England | 109 |
| Harrow | London | 95 |
| Coventry | West Midlands | 89 |
| Milton Keynes | South East | 87 |
| Reading | South East | 82 |
| Peterborough | East of England | 77 |
| Holborn | London | 75 |
| Mildenhall | East of England | 74 |
| Ilford | London | 71 |
| Northampton | East Midlands | 71 |
| Wolverhampton | West Midlands | 69 |
Newest sound recording and music publishing activities companies
Newest first. Each row links to the Companies House record.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts are of live companies in the Companies House snapshot dated 1 November 2026. The snapshot holds basic company data only: no officers and no persons with significant control. A company is counted under each SIC code it lists, up to four. A region is the part of the UK a postcode area mostly falls in. This page uses Companies House data and is not endorsed by Companies House. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.