UK SIC 2007 59200: Sound recording and music publishing activities

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 59.20 and NACE Rev. 2.1 59.20. ISIC Rev. 4: 5920.

UK SIC 2007 code 59200 is "Sound recording and music publishing activities". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 59.20, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Sound recording and music publishing activities". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the matching class is 59.20, "Sound recording and music publishing activities".

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	59200	Sound recording and music publishing activities
NACE Rev. 2	59.20	Sound recording and music publishing activities
NACE Rev. 2.1	59.20	Sound recording and music publishing activities
ISIC Rev. 4	5920

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes the activities of production of original (sound) master recordings, such as tapes, CDs; releasing, promoting and distributing sound recordings to wholesalers, retailers or directly to the public. These activities might be integrated or not with the production of master recordings in the same unit. If not, the unit exercising these activities has to obtain the reproduction and distribution rights to master recordings.

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.