nicheMusic.com: version 2
Saved 2026-09-14 16:17 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed the whole company entry and re-ran the prefix search the cleanup queue asked for. Every fact in the entry checked out against its source: the archived nichemusic.com corporate page still reads "nicheMusic.com owns a groundbreaking entertainment group, 75 Ark Entertainment", and the ownership, address and management facts, the MusicBrainz prefix evidence and the two UPC Database records are unchanged, so Identity, Relations and Aliases are untouched and nothing was removed. GS1 prefix 0676217 stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred: no source names the licensee. New this pass and now recorded in About: SEC EDGAR full-text search returns 0 filings containing the prefix (new References row sec-fts, fetched today), Inmar's published industry notifications of licensed GS1 company prefixes name no such prefix, Open Food Facts holds no pack under 0676217, the USPTO record for the 75 ARK marks could not be read (TSDR now requires an API key, the Justia mirror answers 403 to both the server and to direct fetch), the archived nichemusic.com and 75ark.com captures state no barcode information, and a web search for the bare digits returns only generic barcode explainers. Also added a Meta title and description, which the page lacked. The sibling pages agree: company/75-ark defers the inference here and product/00676217503322 keeps its gs1_prefix_owner row as derived, so no cleanup flag was needed. Unresolved: the registrant of prefix 0676217.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# nicheMusic.com <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: nicheMusic.com
disambiguation: San Francisco internet music company, owner of the 75 Ark label
legal_name: nicheMusic.com, Inc.
country: US
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 0676217
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------ | ------ | ---- |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| NicheMusic | name | en | | |
| nicheMusic.com, Inc. | legal | en | | |
| NMI | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: nicheMusic.com, Inc.: San Francisco internet music company, owner of 75 Ark
description: nicheMusic.com, Inc. ran the online World Entertainment Network and owned the San Francisco hip hop label 75 Ark; GS1 prefix 0676217 is held here as inferred, not sourced.
<!--/meta-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ------------- | ------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| nmi-about | http://web.archive.org/web/20000620214608id_/http://www.nichemusic.com/CORP/nmi.htm | nicheMusic.com, Inc.: About nicheMusic.com, Inc. (archived 2000-06-20) | 2026-09-14 | nicheMusic.com, Inc. | manufacturer | 2000 | | Intro | | | www.nichemusic.com/CORP/nmi.htm via web.archive.org |
| nmi-contact | http://web.archive.org/web/20000620223249id_/http://www.nichemusic.com/CORP/nmi_contact.htm | nicheMusic.com, Inc.: Contact Us (archived 2000-06-20) | 2026-09-14 | nicheMusic.com, Inc. | manufacturer | 2000 | | postal address | | | www.nichemusic.com/CORP/nmi_contact.htm via web.archive.org |
| nmi-mgmt | http://web.archive.org/web/20000621023908id_/http://www.nichemusic.com/CORP/nmi_management.htm | nicheMusic.com, Inc.: Management (archived 2000-06-21) | 2026-09-14 | nicheMusic.com, Inc. | manufacturer | 2000 | | David S Schulhof, Kurt Kujovich | | | www.nichemusic.com/CORP/nmi_management.htm via web.archive.org |
| 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 |
| wiki-75ark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75_Ark | Wikipedia: 75 Ark | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| cmj-2000 | https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/2000/CMJ-2000-04-03.pdf | CMJ New Music Report 660: "75 Ark Emerges With Sounds From Hip-Hop Underground" | 2026-09-14 | CMJ New Music Report | publication | 2000-04-03 | | cover and page 10 | | | worldradiohistory.com scan |
| mb-prefix | https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release?query=barcode:676217*&fmt=json&limit=100 | MusicBrainz release search: barcode 676217* (21 releases, catalogue numbers 75002–75053) | 2026-09-14 | MusicBrainz | catalogue | | | releases, label-info, barcode | CC0 | | |
| upcdb-deltron | https://www.upcdatabase.org/code/0676217503322 | UPC Database 0676217503322: "NICHEMUSIC.COM INC. 21 Tracks Deltron - Deltron 3030 (Compact Disc)" | 2026-09-14 | UPC Database | catalogue | 2011-11-11 | 0676217503322 | description | | | |
| upcdb-lovage | https://www.upcdatabase.org/code/0676217505227 | UPC Database 0676217505227: "NICHEMUSIC.COM INC. CD Dan the Automator - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By" | 2026-09-14 | UPC Database | catalogue | 2012-02-09 | 0676217505227 | description | | | |
| sec-edgar | https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&company=nichemusic&type=&dateb=&owner=include&count=40 | SEC EDGAR company search "nichemusic": no matching companies | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | | search result | | | |
| sec-fts | https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%220676217%22 | SEC EDGAR full-text search "0676217": 0 hits across all filings | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | | hits.total | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
nicheMusic.com, Inc. was a San Francisco internet music company that described itself in 2000 as "creating a new kind of music company combining the best of offline and online resources", running an online property called The World Entertainment Network (WEN) and owning "a groundbreaking entertainment group, 75 Ark Entertainment".[^nmi-about] Its contact address was 75 Arkansas Street, Suite 1, San Francisco, California.[^nmi-contact] David S Schulhof was chairman and chief executive and Kurt Kujovich chief financial officer.[^nmi-mgmt] Wikipedia and CMJ New Music Report both name NicheMusic as the parent company of the hip hop label 75 Ark, which its own page said was then distributed domestically by the Alternative Distribution Alliance.[^wiki-75ark][^cmj-2000][^nmi-75ark]
GS1 prefix 0676217 is recorded here as inferred, not sourced. The inference rests on the barcodes themselves: all 21 releases MusicBrainz holds under the prefix carry 75 Ark catalogue numbers (75002 to 75053),[^mb-prefix] two of those barcodes are filed in the UPC Database under the company name NICHEMUSIC.COM INC.,[^upcdb-deltron][^upcdb-lovage] and this company owned that label.[^nmi-about] This review searched again for a source naming the licensee and found none: SEC EDGAR lists no filer under the name[^sec-edgar] and its full-text search returns no filing containing the prefix,[^sec-fts] a search of Inmar's published industry notifications of licensed GS1 company prefixes returned no document naming it, Open Food Facts holds no pack under the prefix, the USPTO record that would name the owner of the 75 ARK marks could not be read (the TSDR API now requires a key and the Justia mirror answers 403), the Wayback captures of nichemusic.com and 75ark.com state no barcode or GS1 information, and a web search for the bare digits returns only generic barcode explainers. GS1's own registries publish no licensee for a prefix. The prefix therefore stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred; a sourced append will move it to gs1_prefixes when a registry record, a filing or a company statement names its holder.
<!--/about-->