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Most Popular Ringtones for Your Cell phone

Ken Savage — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:11:36 +0000

How do you know if your cell phone ringtones are popular ringtones?

Just check the Billboard charts for the Popular Ringtones.

Billboard magazine, a weekly publication that keeps track of the most popular songs and albums, also ranks the hottest ringtones available for download.

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This validation of ringtones by Billboard as marketable media merchandise puts to rest any of those hopes that cell phone ringtones are just a passing fad. Even harder to find are the cool ringtones everyone is looking for these days.

Ringtones are here to stay, and their spread is on the rise, thanks to the latest development in ringtone technology, “real tone,” which uses MP3 and Real Music technology to create tones with quality sound.

“The latest popular ringtones sound just like songs you’d hear on the radio,” says Mark Regan, 26, of Nashua, “They are like mini-versions of MP3s.”

Ringtones have indeed come a long way from the original monophonic tones from the late 1990s.

When cell phones first exploded onto the market, they came with a small choice of basic sounding tones that emitted one note at a time. These original tones were short and simple, before ringtones were downloadable.

In 2003, the polyphonic tone hit the market, sounding more like actual music with multiple notes played simultaneously.

With the dawn of polyphonic ringtones and downloadable tones, the market for popular ringtones took off.

Today, ringtone sales account for 10 percent of the global music market and are quickly overtaking CD sales. The Billboard list indicates that the ringtone industry is set to enjoy a long ride on the high-demand consumer wagon.

People have now begun to treat their cell phones similarly to their MP3 players or iPods, downloading all of the songs or tones they like and switching them frequently according to mood or occasion.

“I download every song I like as a ringtone,” says Regan, “Right now I have ‘Hotel’ by R. Kelly playing, but I change it every three or four days.”

It is consumers like Regan that have boosted mobile-phone ringtone sales into a multibillion dollar industry.

With the youth culture’s stamp of approval, ringtones are now a must have item to project a hip image and have become the trendiest way to make a personal statement.

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of ringtone service providers available. Most offer free stuff with a subscription, like games, wallpapers and bonus tones..

With so many options available, there’s plenty of impulse buying.

“I’m addicted to downloading,” says Regan, “Each song I get is $2.50, but I keep buying more every time I hear a new good song. I have about 15 of the most popular ringtones on my phone right now.”

Are Free Ringtones Really Free

Ken Savage — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:38:18 +0000

Free Ringtone advertisements are everywhere these days. This is not surprising, given the fact that everyone seems to have a cellphone. With such a ubiquitous device, people want to personalize their cellphone to the best of their abilities. And certainly, having any number of ringtones is a terrific way to do this.

And ringtones are definitely not the only way to customize a cellphone. People can get wallpapers, or images that act as backgrounds for the display on their device. With newer cellphones having faster processors, wireless games have also become a popular addition to many cellphone models. So, now you can do lots more with your cellphone. These devices are now often used as an expression of the style and personality of the person that owns the cellphone.

many firms have jumped into the ringtone market hoping to capitalize on this desire for self expression. Even the carriers themselves are now selling ringtones to their subscribers. The carriers and many other companies use a common business model for providing these ringtones – the user pays a fee of around one and three dollars per ring tone in order to buy and download the popular ringtones.

But some companies seem to offer free ringtones to consumers. The ads tell users to enter their phone number and they will be able to download a bunch of free ringtones. Is this the real deal? Well, yes and no.

Look carefully at the small print. In virtually all cases, by entering the phone number you are also agreeing to sign up for a ringtone subscription plan that costs around ten dollars per month. This subscription plan gives you some number of credits to spend every month on ringtones and wallpapers. By signing up, yes you do get some number of extra credits for some extra ringtones. So to some extent these are free ringtones, but you only get the free ones by paying for a fairly costly monthly service.

So what are the alternatives? There are some companies that provide software tools that let you to create your own ringtones from your own set of CDs or MP3 files. A service like this will also let you use your own digital photos to upload custom wallpapers for your phone. If you are computer savvy and are able to spend some time doing this, then this can be a good option.

For people who are not willing to spend time making their own ringtones, there are other services that give you unlimited ringtone downloads for a flat fee. Usually these services are much cheaper than those services that deceptively advertise free ringtones. So it usually is rewarding to research ringtone deals fairly extensively before committing to a purchase.

Marc Ilgen is an expert in cellphone technology. His website http://www.kewlcell.com discusses unlimited ringtone download programs in more detail. For an original version of this and other articles related to this topic, see cellphone articles

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Fergie Fergalicious Ringtone

Ken Savage — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:22:51 +0000

“Fergalicious” is Fergie’s 2nd single off of her new album The Dutchess.

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With beats from the Afro-Rican’s song, “Give It All You Got” and that cool song from the 80’s J. J. Fad’s “Supersonic”
“Fergalicious” has had some airplay across the country from what I read but I haven’t heard anything in the Boston area on 94.5 Jamin or KISS 108.

“Fergalicious” has peaked at #26 so far on the AOL Airplay Chart and #2 so far on the AOL Digital Download Chart. This becomes Fergie’s second straight top 10 single.

A lot of people thought that the song with the Black Eyed Peas’ single “My Humps” was too commericialized but it definitely had a cool hook and ya can’t beat it when it plays on MTV and VH1 in heavy rotation. Well whenever MTV plays music.

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In the song, Fergie describes how her body makes the boys go crazy for her. Thus, the definition ‘Fergalicious’ is created to describe her sex appeal. The word ‘Fergalicious‘ is supposed to mean to make “them boys” go crazy.

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Fergie:

Fergalicious definition make them boys go loco
They want my treasure so they get their pleasures from my photo
You could see me, you can’t squeeze me
I ain’t easy, I ain’t sleazy
I got reasons why I tease ‘em
Boys just come and go like seasons

Fergalicious (so delicious)
But I ain’t promiscuous
And if you was suspicious
All that shit is fictitious
I blow kisses
That puts them boys on rock, rock
And they be lining down the block just to watch what I got (four, tres, two, uno)

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Is The Next Big Thing in Ringtones, Classic Rock?

Ken Savage — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:47:56 +0000

While hiphop acts may rule today’s ringtone charts, yesterday’s stars are introducing the format to a broader audience and drive tomorrow’s growth.

Only about 10 percent of wireless subscribers buy ringtones today, primarily young adults purchasing hip-hop and R and B-themed content. Record labels and wireless operators are keen to expand their market, particularly as the dominant format shifts from polyphonic ringtones to master recording clips. Exploiting the vast library of catalog music, they say, is emerging as a key strategy in that effort.

Acts like Devo, the B-52’s, the Ramones, the Allman Brothers Band and Jimmy Buffett are generating healthy ringtone sales, and even Pink Floyd has found its way onto the mobile deck. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” is one of the best-selling catalog ringtones of all time, with more than 1.2 million units sold, and became the first licensed track to appear in a mobile videogame.

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Indeed, catalog-based ringtones are now the format’s fastest-growing segment. Universal Music Group (UMG), for instance, says catalog ringtones sales are up 80% from last year and now represent 10 percent of all its ringtone sales.

“There is a growing audience that is interested in content that speaks to them, and it’s not hip-hop,” says David Dorn, senior VP of new-media strategy for Warner Music Group’s Rhino Entertainment division. Carriers “have only featured hip-hop because that’s all that sold. Well, that’s because it’s all they’ve featured. The only area of incremental growth for them is catalog. If all they do is focus on hip-hop, they just end up speaking to the same audience over and over.”

Catalog music has been available in mobile form since ringtones first came onto the scene. But today labels and carriers are marketing catalog-based mobile content more aggressively.

Take Universal’s September 26 deal with Verizon Wireless to bring the entire Jimi Hendrix catalog to mobile for the first time. Verizon won a short-term exclusive by agreeing to promote the Hendrix content heavily in print and online campaigns, as well as prominently feature the guitarist on its ringtone sales site.

It’s the first time a wireless operator has applied a significant marketing push to a long-deceased catalog artist.

“Typically, operators have been focused on promoting Shakira, or Sean Paul, or Gwen Stefani or the Pussycat Dolls,” says Rio Caraeff, GM of Universal Music Mobile. “Verizon felt (Hendrix) would help grow the marketplace and expose their service to more and different people than who would have seen it otherwise.”

The Hendrix deal follows a yearlong music industry initiative, led by Rhino, to include a “Songs You Know” category featuring immediately recognizable classics from all major labels on carriers’ ringtone sites. Sprint, Verizon, Cingular and Boost Mobile are among the carriers that now feature such a category.

Labels have responded by putting their own marketing dollars on the line. Rhino in the coming weeks will begin airing TV commercials supported by viral Internet ads promoting mobile content from the Doors currently its best-selling mobile catalog act as well as various ’80s artists and old-school hip-hop tracks.

Dorn says new catalog content is making its way into mobile formats almost weekly. However, there are several challenges. First, labels are being more careful about which songs are selected to become ringtones or ringback tones from often massive catalogs.

“We have to identify what we feel are the best songs for mobile content,” Dorn says. “This is not a Long Tail approach. That’s how you approach iTunes — you make really huge swaths of your catalog available and monazite those things that have been collecting dust. The business for ringtones is all about hits and instantly recognizable songs.”

Second, and more significant, many major acts including Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, the Beatles, Radiohead, Prince, the Eagles, Van Halen, Black Sabbath and Frank Sinatra remain noticeably absent in the ringtone world.

In many cases the label doesn’t own the digital rights to the artist’s work. In other cases, it owns digital rights to sell full tracks, but there’s a “no edit” clause that prohibits the label from condensing the song into a clip needed for a ringtone.

Labels say they are in active negotiations to bring many of these holdouts around, and are close to finalizing several deals. However, some artists and their management are demanding significant upfront advances in return, while others simply don’t want their work converted into a ringtone, or any digital form.

“There are always sensitivities depending on the artist,” Caraeff says. “There are always challenges. You’re navigating through lots of approvals. But ultimately we work through it.”

He points to pending deals for Elvis Costello and Guns N’ Roses in the near future.

“It’s stuff like the Jimi Hendrix deal that will hopefully open the eyes of the holdouts,” Dorn says. “Sometimes they just wait to see what other artists do and then they go, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?”‘

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Scarey Halloween Ringtones for Your Cellphone

Ken Savage — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:35:41 +0000

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Time to say goodbye to your ordinary and dull Halloween ringtone.

A Halloween ringtone is the sound coming from a mobile phone when there is someone on the other line calling. Previously, ringtones are used to distinguish whether the person contacting you is a member of your family, a co-worker or from a certain group of friends. Though some individuals still consider ringtone as a free thought differentiating factor, more people these days are choosing Halloween ringtones to add liveliness to their cell phone.

It is costly to purchase Halloween ringtones on your mobile phone company. Other websites require you to dole out money for ringtones. Here are some tips for you to acquire free ringtones for your cell phone. If your friend is kind enough to send you a ringtone which you desire from his phone, then you can ask him. Usually, there is a fee to the sender whenever he sends a ringtone into your phone. Make sure though that you will not abuse. One ringtone favor is good enough.

Whenever you ask a friend for a free cell phone Halloween ringtone, your ringtone choices are restricted with what is available on your friend’s phone. If you and your friend;s phone have infrared capability then you can forward ringtones with each other. By doing this you need not shell out money. Normally it is free to transmit ringtones when you use infrared. Although I have yet to see a phone do this successfully. Maybe you have?

However, this type of obtaining free Halloween ringtone does not apply to individuals who does not have infrared feature even though you have it. The rule is: Both of you should have infrared feature.

Like asking a friend for a free Halloween ringtone, obtaining ringtones via infrared will confine you to ringtones saved in your friend’s phone.

Another way to obtain free ringtones to your cell phone is through your phone company. Some phone companies have free ringtones promotions; however you should grab the opportunity when such time comes. Commonly, you will be receiving a text advertisement whenever such promotions turn up.

The disadvantage when it comes to obtaining free ringtones through phone company promotions is that you will not have the freedom to choose what you want. You are one lucky person if your favorite ringtone is included in their list.

With the popularity of Halloween ringtones, some website companies offer free Halloween ringtones which are downloadable. All you need to do is browse and search the Internet for different websites which can give you free ringtones. Moreover, you may also check the website of your phone company for free downloadable ringtones.

Downloading free ringtones for your cell phone via the Internet is easy. It will only take you about five minutes to download one ringtone.

What is good about getting free ringtones over the Internet is that you will have numerous ringtone selections. If for instance, the ringtone you want is not available on the website you have gone to see then you always browse other websites.

You do not always have to pick a dollar or two out of your pocket for you to be able to obtain a free cell phone ringtone. There are alternatives for you to acquire ringtones that will rock your life. Be resourceful to enjoy life better!

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Ken Savage — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:43:42 +0000

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There are several websites that offer to download ringtone to cellular phone. A list of a few of those is as follows:

On the below websites, you can find tons of popular ringtones. You can download your ringtone to cellular phone from these websites. If you don’t get the desired ringtone from the above list of websites, you can search the internet for other websites that may have the desired ringtones.

Ringophone.com
It offers a huge selection of ringtones and graphics for your cellphone. Change that boring ringtone with one of the many trendy and popular ringtones from their collection. Ringophone.com sends the ringtone to your cellphone in just seconds. No matter where you live on the planet. Their network covers more than 150 countries worldwide! Simply choose your favorite style from the style list, or use search to find quickly your favorite song. Go ahead, download Bonus ringtone to cellular phone, and make your cellphone sound like never before!

BestTones.com
This website offers a multitude of ringtones for your cellular phone. You can download popular ringtone to cellular phone using this website. It provides monophonic and polyphonic ringtones. The website also provides instructions for entering ringtones to your cellular phone, be it Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens or Sony. The ringtones are based on your favorite movies, songs, Tv series, games etc. The website is updated with new ring tones each month. This website offers you a varied list, to download ringtone to cellular phone.

Tonez2Fonez.net
This website offers a range of options to download complimentary ringtone to cellular phone. It has a variety of ringtones including monophonic, polyphonic, realsounds, polyphonic 40 tones and voice tones.

Ringtonesgalore.co.uk
Here you will find all the latest monophonic/polyphonic ringtones of new hits as well as more true tones and real sound ringtones. They also still have lots of ringtones in the good old composer, keypress and RTTTL formats for Nokia. You have a lot of options while you download ringtone to cellular phone. This website has ringtone categories like rock & pop, movies, TV themes, popular, RealSound ringtones, UK chart tones, and enhanced ringtones. You could either download ringtone to cellular phone, or compose your own ringtone using the RTTTL codes.

Music spearheads the ringtones industry. You can download ringtone to cellular phone from websites. You can download ringtone to cellular phone or you could make use of the Ring Tone Text Transfer Language (RTTTL), a common language on the net to describe ringtones in a prescribed and acceptable format.

Alternatively, you could go to the webpage where you could download bonus ringtones to your cellular phone. Your cell phone has to be compatible for the download feature. On the ringtone page, you could select the make of your phone and the model number and series, and you could download bonus ringtone to cellular phone. Monophonic and Polyphonic ringtones are most sought after in ringtones.

You could also hear the ringtone on the website before choosing the one which you would love to download. Quite a few phones have the composer feature. You could go to Compose and follow the RTTTL codes from the webpage and compose your own ringtone. In a Nokia phone, they could appear this way 4e1, 4e2 4e3 etc. Customize your mobile phone with a funky fresh ringtone!

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