Alternative Distribution Alliance: version 1
Saved 2026-09-14 13:28 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by review: Full review of company/75-ark. The cleanup item was the inferred GS1 prefix 0676217. No source naming the licensee exists: GS1 publishes none, SEC EDGAR has no filer called nicheMusic, the USPTO assig. This is the current version.
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# Alternative Distribution Alliance <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Alternative Distribution Alliance
disambiguation: US independent music distributor owned by Warner Music Group
country: US
founded: 1993
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ----------- | ------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| distributes | brand/75-ark | US | | | true | sourced | ^nmi-75ark | The label's owner nicheMusic.com, Inc. wrote on its own site, captured 2000-06-08, that "75 Ark is distributed domestically by the Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA)". The arrangement had ended by the October 2000 Deltron 3030 CD, which credits Tommy Boy Music as distributor (^discogs-digipak); no source dates the change |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| ADA | name | en | | |
| ADA Worldwide | name | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------------------ | ------------ | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| wiki-ada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_Distribution_Alliance | Wikipedia: Alternative Distribution Alliance | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | lead, History | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| nmi-75ark | http://web.archive.org/web/20000608192000id_/http://www.nichemusic.com/CORP/75ark.htm | nicheMusic.com, Inc.: 75 Ark Entertainment (archived 2000-06-08) | 2026-09-14 | nicheMusic.com, Inc. | manufacturer | 2000 | | Intro | | | www.nichemusic.com/CORP/75ark.htm via web.archive.org |
| discogs-digipak | https://api.discogs.com/releases/45721 | Discogs release 45721: Deltron 3030 (CD, Digipak, 75 Ark 75033) | 2026-09-14 | Discogs | catalogue | | 45721 | companies, credits | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
The Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) is the independent music distribution arm of Warner Music Group; it was created in 1993 as a joint venture between WMG and Restless Records, and it handles physical and digital distribution, marketing, merchandising and licensing for independent labels.[^wiki-ada] It is on Barcodepedia because nicheMusic.com, Inc. named it in 2000 as the domestic distributor of its San Francisco hip hop label 75 Ark, before Tommy Boy Music took that role.[^nmi-75ark][^discogs-digipak]
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