Yeah, I'm aware my example has nothing to do with Ariola Japan, it was an opportunity to mention a general non-JP example, there aren't just Japanese releases in this database.
Music (song) publishing is valid and important information found on albums (often a single legal entity for original scores), for Japanese ones not really, it'll be simply omitted there, sure.
About release publisher vs. manufacturer, that's also a topic for discussion and what is actually meant under 発売元.
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