May 27, 2004
Phone tones ring £70m change to charts music
Official recognition of the extraordinary rise of a cultural phenomenon that may come to the rescue of the stricken music industry will emerge next week with the publication of the (first) "Ring Tone Chart", reports The Independent.
[...] Britain is now set to beat the United States to having an official ring-tone chart. The first ring-tone top 20 will be published in the magazine Music Week next Monday.
"The chart, which is backed by the British Phonographic Industry and is being compiled by the accountants KPMG, will highlight an industry that has grown to about £70m within the UK."
I'm always wary of any article that claims to be the "the first" at anything. It's usually not entirely accurate. To the best of my knowledge, Moviso is a US company, and they publish a monthly ringtone chart - in the WSJ.
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