Favorite Ringtones are cultural in Japan

Xeni Jardin reports in a post on boingboing on the changing business of cell phone ringtones in Japan, where roughly 80 percent of the ringtones are Japanese songs with Japanese pop music ruling the ringtone charts. "Song clips, called chaku-uta, are hayatteru ("totally trendy") with the under-30 crowd. And chaku-goe, ("voice,") is "another popular type of ringtone".

emily | 4:52 PM | Chaku-uta |
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