RINGTONES KILLED THE HIP-HOP STAR

According to the NY Press, a look at 2007’s most popular ringtones reveals that while the chart is top heavy with rap songs, it is almost completely void of New York artists last year.

"The reasoning is easy: New York beats are more head-nodding backdrops for intricate rhyme schemes than they are catchy ringtone fodder for teenyboppers. Absent a catchy hook, too many NY rap songs are consigned to non-ringtone irrelevance.

“If you don’t write [a hook], you don’t get on the radio, don’t make easy ringtones and you don’t get teenagers to download them,” author Nelson George explains. “At the end of the day, hip-hop is now dance music. Clever rhymes are cool commercially, but they’re not what sells records these days.”

... 220 million ringtones were sold, according to Nielsen Ringscan, for sales of $567 million. "

emily | 8:06 AM | Random Stats |
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