New Music Business Briefing: ADA Has Indie Hits Series, Boomer Marketing, China Fights Back & Much More

>>> ADA is the distributor spearheading the new indie "hits" compilation series aimed straight at big box retail that we reported on earlier in the week.  It’s about time distributors got more creative in helping labels and used their collective catalogs and marketing clout.

>>> It’s official marketers can’t afford to ignore baby boomers.

>>> iTunes streamed to your cell phone?  Maybe…

>>> The music industry’s commitment to fight global warming heats up with Sheryl Crow launching an educational and concert tour of colleges and the lineups for Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts in the US  and UK begins to take shape.

>>> Finetunes extends it’s hot player to the desktop with a new Apollo based widget and adds iTunes playlist  interoperability.

>>> A new album release by Dronolan’s Tower is aimed straight at Dungeons and Dragons gamers.

>>> The Chinese government didn’t take too kindly to US complaints to the WTO that their piracy efforts are lacking. "It will seriously undermine the cooperative relations the two nations have established in the field and will adversely affect bilateral economic and trade ties". (Read the full official Chinese response here.)