Canada. Ringtones now qualify for 'gold' and 'platinum' status

FP Post reports that the Canadian Recording Industry Association has started issuing "gold" and "platinum" designations for downloads of songs as ringtones.

"The first awards were announced on Tuesday, with 43 tunes certified as platinum and 17 noted as gold.

In Canada, 40,000 downloads qualifies a ringtone for platinum status, with 20,000 needed for gold.

As a point of comparison, unit sales of 50,000 of a CD or vinyl album are needed for an album to be deemed gold, with 100,000 required for platinum."

Music of Mexico waves hello to ringtone success

A romantic Mexican song is winning the hearts of pop pickers in the Billboard hot 100 ringtone chart.

"Grupo Montez De Durango are seven musical amigos, who play a style of music known as duranguense.

Their latest release, <>Adios Amor Te Vas, this week waved hello to the number three spot in the ringtones chart, climbing two places and threatening to re-take the number one spot after 43 weeks in the parade."

[via Mobile Marketing News]

Verizon announces top music for 2007

Verizon's top ten ringtones, ringback tones and full-track V CAST Music songs for last year. Full list here. Below are the top three:

Ringtones

-- "A Bay Bay," by Hurricane Chris
-- "Beautiful Girls (Main Chorus)," by Sean Kingston
-- "Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')," by T-Pain

Ringback Tones

-- "Apologize," by Timbaland
-- "Beautiful Girls (Main Chorus)," by Sean Kingston
-- "Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)," by Fergie

V CAST Music -- Full-track Songs

-- "A Bay Bay," by Hurricane Chris
-- "Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)," by Fergie
-- "Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')," by T-Pain featuring Yung Joc

[via IntoMobile]

Top AT&T Ringtone For 2007

AT&T on Thursday released a list of the Top 10 most downloaded ringtones, revealing that mobile users are hungry for music by popular artists instead of polyphonic sounds created specifically for cell phones. TechWeb reports.

AT&T's Top 10 list revealed that out of the 40,000 ringtones it offers, the most popular ones are the carrier's music tones.

They are as follows:

1. "Party Like a Rockstar" by Shop Boyz
2. "This Is Why I'm Hot" by Mims
3. "Crank That" by Soulja Boy
4. "Rockstar" by Nickelback
5. "Don't Matter" by Akon
6. "Buy You A Drank" by T-Pain
7. "A Bay Bay" by Hurricane Chris
8. "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston
9. "Pop, Lock & Drop It" by Huey
10. "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie

What Makes a Ringtone Popular?

Billboard Magazine has a list each week of hot ringtones. The songs range from hip hop to latin to rock.

Mancini's "Pink Panther" has been on the top 40 ringtone list for more than two years, for example. And artist Koji Kondo has been on the charts for 162 weeks with the Super Mario Brothers theme.

So what makes a ringtone popular? A song with a great hook or an instrumental?

Tim Page, the music critic for the Washington Post, talks about some of this week's Billboard picks with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block.

Listen in on npr

T-Pain takes crown as king of ringtones

Enter most any dance club and odds are you'll soon hear "Buy U a Drank" by R&B sensation T-Pain before the night is through. Reuters reports.

But the hit single gets most of its spins as a 30-second clip.

"Buy U a Drank" is the best-selling mastertone of 2007, according to Nielsen RingScan, moving more than 2.3 million units year to date.

... The Southern soulster gives credit to ringtones -- in addition to a close relationship with hip-hop/R&B hitmaker Akon -- as a significant factor behind his success. In a May Billboard interview, T-Pain said it was his ringtone sales that forced his label to support his first album."

Halloween is this week's Billboard No. 1 ringtone

It seems people are already thinking about dressing up their phones for the upcoming holiday season.

The theme song to Halloween is this week's Billboard No. 1 ringtone.

[via Crave]

Oldies but goodies top ringtone charts

Oldies but goodies. "Pink Panther, "Your Song" and "Super Mario Brothers Theme" are in the top 4 for ringtone sales this week, according to Billboard Charts

[via C/net Cell Phone Accessories Blog]

Fat Joe's 'Make It Rain' Sells A Million Ringtones

Fat Joe's hit single "Make It Rain" has sold over 1 million ringtones and has been certified platinum by the RIAA's Platinum Ringtune certification program.

"... In addition to being the first million-selling ringtone for Imperial, "Make It Rain" peaked #6 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart was Imperial's first Top 10 hit in over 40 years."

[via Hip Hop News]

T-Pain Dominates Ringtone Charts

This week T-Pain's "Buy U A Drank beats out artists such as MIMS, AKON, Avril, and Beyonce as the #1 ringtone on the Billboard Hot RingMasters chart for the 2nd week in a row.

The ringtone sold 182K this past week alone and has sold nearly 800K ringtones to date.

[via SoundSlam]

Country music finally ready to jump into the ringtone market

According to monsters and critics, country music seems to finally be ready to make a run in the ringtone market.

"For the first time ever, a country music song received a platinum ringtone certification by the RIAA - Waylon Jenning`s theme from the Dukes of Hazzard. And mobile usage tracking firm M:Metrics says the country genre for ringtones is on the rise while other genres are either leveling off or declining. "

Wisin y Yandel, with Golden Cell Phone

The popular reggaeton duet Wisin yYandel will be awarded the Golden Cell Phone for the excellent Real Tone and Ringtones downloads of the songs of their latest album, “Pa’l mundo".

[via VoyMusic]

Get Your "Badonkadonk" Ringing

Trace Adkins received his first Gold certification for master ringtone sales in excess of 500-thousand for his single Honky Tonk "Badonkadonk".

[via ther AP]

According to Wikipedia, Badonkadonk is a slang term for a woman's buttocks that are voluptuously large and firm yet bouncy. Women who possess this feature have a small waist that flares dramatically into round, peach-shaped buttocks with deep buttock cleavage. The term is based on the imagined rhythm of a sexy gait.

Perry Como's Jngle Bells tops Billboards' ringtones chart

Perry Como has nabbed the top two spots on Billboard's cell phone ringtones chart with two of the most popular seasonal choices: "Jngle Bells" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," reports the Desert News.

"Jingle Bells," which Como recorded in 1946, has been a part of pop culture for 60 years. Como, who died in 2001 at age 88, never experienced the ringtone phenomenon. "

RIAA Certifies Ringtones as Gold, Platinum

Rapper Rick Rosss received a plaque bearing a golden cell phone Wednesday when music industry officials honored 128 songs as the first batch of gold and platinum ringtones. Fox News reports.

"The ring tones are just another gateway to connecting with the kids and the fans," said Ross, whose award sported a shiny cell phone rather than the usual gold album. "That's just the next level."

Ross, whose first album comes out later this year, was cited for his best-selling single "Hustlin'."< He was joined in the ring(tone) of honor by big-name acts like the Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, 50 Cent, Kanye West and others.

In all, 84 acts were cited as gold winners, 40 platinum and four as multiplatinum by the RIAA. The awards are given based on downloads of the ringtones."

Photo above: Left to Right are: Rob Hyatt, Executive Director of Premium Content - Cingular / Paul Reddick, VP Business Development & Innovation - Sprint / Rick Ross, Def Jam recording artist (gold mastertone certification for Hustlin’) / Ted Casey, Head of Mobile Music - Verizon Wireless / Rio Caraeff, GM & VP Universal Music Mobile US / Scott Moody, Director of Content Services - Alltel

Related: - RIAA To Announce New Gold/Platinum Award For Ringtones

Billboard to chart ringtones

Music market tracker Billboard will start publishing a chart ranking the best-selling master ringtones, audio snippets derived from original studio recordings and used to customize mobile phones, writes CNN News.

The chart, dubbed Hot MasterTones, will be based on data compiled by Nielsen Mobile and represent the top 20 best-selling master ringtones for the week. Included in the chart will be the song title, artist, previous week's ranking and number of weeks on the chart.

The weekly publication began publishing a chart for monophonic and polyphonic ringtones -- song samples based on synthesized versions of recordings -- in 2004. But since then, master ringtones have become an increasingly important slice of recording industry sales, particularly in the United States.

The U.S. ringtone market is expected to exceed $600 million in sales this year, up from $500 million last year, according to BMI. Billboard estimates global ringtone sales racked up $4.4 billion in 2005, up from $3.7 billion the previous year. Much of that growth was due to sales of master ringtones, according to the magazine.

Swedes Vote for the "Realtone of the Year"

In connection with this year's Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards, the "Grammisgalan" on February 7, Telia and Nokia will be giving a newly established prize for "Realtone of the Year". [via Cellular News]

"The winner will be selected by the Swedish people, who can vote by phone or SMS up to February 5. Those who vote have a chance to win tickets to the "Grammisgalan" event."

Related:

-- Grammy Award Winners Expected to be Heard on Cell Phones Soon

-- Junior Eurovision Song Contest ringtones

50 Cent Tops 2005 US Ringtone Chart

The top selling ringtone in the US for 2005 was by a rap artist…It was Candy Shop by 50 Cent, which according to Nielson Mobile figures sold 1,891,000 units during 2005.

Number 2 and 3 were :

# 2. Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Lovers and Friends (1,339,000)
# 3. Game Theme - Super Mario Brothers (1,095,000)
Click here for full top 10 list

[via Moco News]

Football stadium ringtone chart goes live

netimperative reports one one of the most innovative ringtones ideas, I've come across. A new ringtone and download chart that is exclusive to football stadiums across the UK - developed by TV network Match Day Media.

"The Stadium Music League chart will be presented by Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox, and will provide each stadium with a unique chart, where positions are controlled entirely by participating fans at the game.

Votes are cast by text message, costing £3.50 ($6.10), including the ringtone and a pre-paid link to download the full song at home via mdmtv.com, powered by online TuneTribe.com.

Every vote will then count as a sale and be eligible for inclusion in the UK Official National Chart.

Match Day Media said the service provides the music industry with a platform to tap into the football world and be able to connect directly with the 1.4 million fans gathering at football stadiums every month around the country.

The Stadium Music League will be broadcast across a network of top football stadiums, via state of the art plasma screens, screening MDM.TV, which shows a live match feed, half time highlights and football news."

Mobile music awards for ringtones and caller tunes

At a ceremony last night, awards were presented to international and local record labels for the top 20 songs that Telecom mobile users have downloaded as either a ringtone or caller tune, reports Scoop.

The awards, organised in conjunction with mobile music content provider Mercury Mobility, follow equivalent levels set by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand for singles sales.

The inaugural Telecom Mobile music awards have been presented for the following:

Platinum award (10,000 tru-tone and caller tune downloads):

- Beautiful by Snoop Dogg, EMI
- 1,2 Step by Ciara featuring Missy Elliott, Sony BMG
- Red Red Wine by UB40, EMI

Gold award (5,000 tru-tone and caller tune downloads):

- Stop the Music by P Money and Scribe, FMR
- Keep on Calling by P Money featuring Akon, FMR
- Slow Jamz by Twista, Warner Music
- Chop Suey by System of a Down, Sony BMG
- Baby Boy by Big Brovaz, Sony BMG
- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper, Sony BMG
- Soldier by Destiny's Child, Sony BMG
- Push Up by Freestylers, Shock
- Let Me Love You by Mario, Sony BMG
- Lose My Breath by Destiny's Child, Sony BMG
- American Idiot by Green Day, Warner Music
- Caught Up by Usher, Sony BMG
- Slice of Heaven by Dave Dobbyn, Sony BMG
- Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin, EMI
- Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park, Warner Music
- Naughty Girl by Beyonce, Sony BMG

Mariah Carey Lands Successful Comeback

Mariah Carey's comeback single “We Belong Together” has stayed on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 10 straight weeks and the Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs chart for 11 weeks.

It also currently tops the Ringtones chart for the second straight week.

[via The Celebrity Life Cafe]

Canada's first Top Ten Ringtone chart

Another chart has just been launched: Virgin Mobile's "Top Ten Ringtones" chart featuring the ten most popular ringtones downloaded. The list is the first of its kind available in Canada and debuts this week in 18 major urban dailies and weeklies across the country.
It will list the top 10 ringtones and musictones sold each week, including song title, artist and position number.

(via Canada News)

Crazy Frog hops off the number one spot

That annoying Crazy Frog has finally been knocked off the number one spot after four weeks at the top.

"Moving down to the number two spot, the frog has given way to allow 2Pac and Elton John to go straight in at number one with Ghetto Gospel, by rapper 2PAC, who died in Las Vegas in 1996, killed by unknown assailants.

[via ITV.com]

I'm not sure what this says about the music industry. First a Frog Ringtone is on top of the charts for 4 weeks straight, only to lose it's place to a dead rapper's single (?).

To understand, read MTV: Presley and 2Pac have become legendary in their respective genres, inspiring conferences and tributes — and enthralling fans with their music years after their deaths. Other rappers,have also had material released posthumously, but none of it has enjoyed the critical and commercial success of Tupac's (2Pac') posthumous releases.

Fourth week at top for Crazy Frog

The Crazy Frog ringtone has held onto the singles chart top spot for the fourth week, reports the BBC.

"The new version of Axel F - the theme to the Beverly Hills Cop films - is the first mobile ringtone to make it into the charts.

Meanwhile, Coldplay have hung on to the number one position in the album charts for a second week with X&Y."

Watch clips of the chart-topping Crazy Frog video.

MEF Launches German Ringtone Charts

Candy Shop, originally recorded by 50 Cent, has become the bestselling ringtone in the first ever official German chart, launched by the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), in conjunction with Deloitte and MusikWoche.

The chart notably featured several German artists such as Nena, Ich & Ich and Sarah Connor, while also highlighting the popularity of characters such as the home-grown Schnappi (the small crocodile) and the ubiquitous Crazy Frog.

[via 160characters.org]

Billboard To Give Charts Short Codes For Mobile Downloads

Billboard magazine is planning to launch a mobile initiative in June which will eventually allow mobile phone users to download any song on its numerous charts using “short codes.”, reports James Pearce for Moco News.

"The codes will appear in the weekly early this summer. Apparently about 20 percent of Billboard's revenue is consumer driven, and Billboard president and publisher John Kilcullen expects that figure to double".

Top Ringtones

Top selling ringtones compiled from internet reports collected and provided by Nielsen Mobile, via Billboardpostplay, via Moco News:

1) Candy Shop, 50 Cent Featuring Olivia
2) Oh, Ciara Featuring Ludacris
3) Disco Inferno, 50 Cent
4) Number One Spot, Ludacris
5) Lovers And Friends, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz Featuring Usher & Ludacris
6) Super Mario Brothers Theme, Koji Kondo
7) U Don't Know Me, T.I.
8) 1, 2 Step, Ciara Featuring Missy Elliott
9) Halloween, John Carpenter
10) Drop It Like It's Hot, Snoop Dogg Featuring Pharrell

The Most Popular Music Ringtone Remains The Telephone Ring Itself (?)

As this announcement comes from a MatrixM's company press release, I'm not sure how true it is. This claim is certainly not reflected on any of top ringtone charts. Just a catchy headline to get people to read about the company?

MatrixM.com, a leading mobile entertainment website, announced that the sound of an old telephone ringing is still the most popular choice of music ringtone in the world.

MatrixM.com is uniquely positioned to back the claim, because it has the most eclectic ringtones catalogue world wide."

It Was a WAPtastic Xmas

According to Mike Grenville for 160characters.org, as well as music chart hits, Christmas Season selections proved popular during December with:

-- Mariah Carey's ‘All I Want For Christmas',

-- ‘Jingle Bells', ‘Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer'

-- the ‘Fairytale of New York' by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl

All hovering just outside the top ten.

It was also interesting to see both Band Aid 2000 and Band Aid 1984 competing for the top slots!

The chart on the left is The MDA's Top 10 most popular ringtones downloaded across UK Network Operators in December".

More Ringtone Charts

Following the success of the first official ringtone chart launched in the UK in June 2004, MEF is to roll out the chart in Germany in April, with other European territories to follow, reports Mike Grenville for 160chracters.org.

"The first German ringtone chart, reflecting all ringtone formats, is expected to be published by Musikwoche, the German music industry's weekly trade magazine, in April 2005."

2004 Billboard Music Awards Winners

The 2004 Billboard Music Awards were handed out last night Dec. 8 in a ceremony at the MGM Garden Grand Arena in Las Vegas and televised on Fox.

Ringtone of the year: "In Da Club," 50 Cent

Click here to view the full list of 2004 Billboard Music Awards winners.

Ring-a-ding bling-bling

"My Boo" topped Billboard magazine's chart of hot ringtones during the chart's first three weeks of existence. This week, Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" took over the top position, reports The Tenessean

Geoff Mayfield, Billboard's director of charts, says what he calls the ''36 to dead'' crowd hasn't caught onto the craze yet, but that up to 97,000 people — most of them young — are paying between 99 cents and $2.99 to download songs each week.

Sprint is now marketing BlingTones, which are hip-hop beats created by leading producers for use solely as cell phone ringers.

The top-selling ringtone tends to sell more than three times as much in one week as the No. 1 seller on Billboard's Hot Digital Tracks chart. In other words, three times as many people are paying up to $2.99 for a snippet of a replica of a song's melody than are paying 99 cents to download an entire song with full dynamic sound.

''It's a personalized thing, and I think it's going to grow,'' Bihlman says. ''This whole mass of humanity is trying to do anything to differentiate themselves.''

Billboard Begins Tracking Cellphone Ring

Billboard is creating a Hot Ringtones chart, reports according to Fox41.com. It will track the songs that are downloaded to cellphones and are played when the phone rings.

Billboard will collect data from each of the major ringtone distributors and wireless carriers.

The chart will reflect the top 20 polyphonic ringtone sales for each week. It will include song title, artist, previous week's position and number of weeks on the chart.

The chart will make its debut in the November sixth issue.

Billboard To Launch Ringtones Chart In US

[...] As interest heats up, the trade magazine Billboard, in conjunction with Consect LLC, a consulting company, plans to soon launch a chart tracking ringtone sales.
WSJ via MocoNews. net.

Beyonce Tops Ringtone Charts at Spring

US operator Sprint PCS has released download figures for a number of its top-selling music ringtones, showing four tones from Beyonce Knowles' “Dangerously in Love” album have cumulatively sold more than 1 million downloads.

Sprint PCS noted it offers more than 1,000 real-music tones, and it sold more than 20 million ringers and screen savers to PCS Vision customers last year. [ via Moco News ]

Hip-Hop Music Tops Ringtone Charts

For the third week in a row, Petey Pablo's "Freek-A-Leek" tops the Top 20 Ringtone Charts, according to Ringingphone.com, per a company press release.

"There's no question that hip-hop music is consistently our biggest seller," said Bob Bentz, co-owner of Ringingphone.com, and an admitted 40-something hip-hop convert. "Hip-hop is the greatest music since the 60's."

Rap and hip-hop continue to dominate the Ringingphone Ringtone Top 20 with 13 of the Top 20 hits.

RINGINGPHONE RINGTONE TOP 20

1. Freek-A-Leek (Petey Pablo)
2. Halloween (Movie Theme)
3. Damn (YoungBloodz)
4. Lean Back (Terror Squad)
5. Yeah (Usher)
6. Baby Boy (Beyonce)
7. Pacman (Video Game)
8. Nuthin' but a G Thang (Dr. Dre)
9. Milkshake (Kelis)
10. Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
11. Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd)
12. My Band (D12)
13. Dirt Off Your Shoulder (Jay-Z)
14. I Like That (Houston)
15. Overnight Celebrity (Twista)
16. Jesus Walks (Kanye West)
17. Redneck Woman (Gretchen Wilson)
18. Tipsy (J-Kwon)
19. Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
20. Naughty Girl (Beyonce)

by Cindy Schmelky. Editor Coll Ringtones Blog

MDA Mobile Ringtone Chart, UK - June 2004

The Mobile Data Association publishes the Official Chart of the most popular ringtones downloaded across the four UK network operators. Chart toppers for June 2004 were as follows: via MocoNews.

1 Three Lions: Baddiel & Skinner
2 I Don't Wanna Know: Mario Winans
3 Trick Me: Kelis
4 Hotel: Cassidy feat. R Kelly
5 **** It (I don't want you back): Eamon
6 F.U.R.B.: Frankee
7 Burn: Usher
8 My Band: D12
9 Vindaloo: Fat Les
10 All Together Now: The Farm

Top Mobile Downloads For June

According to Handango, the mobile downloads retailer…the figures are aggregated across more than 100 download portals worldwide… [ via MocoNews ]

Fulll PDF download report here…

Top Ringtones June 2004

[ via the WSJ ] In ringtone downloads for June, the bottom half of the chart was filled with new entrants: OutKast debuted at No. 6 with "Roses," Kanye West climbed 20 spots from May to No. 8 with "All Falls Down" and "Hotel" by Cassidy (featuring R. Kelly) moved up 23 places to land at No. 7, according to Infospace Mobile. The top five downloads were again dominated by Usher, Twista, Jay-Z and J-Kwon.

Infospace Mobile ringtone chart: TOP RINGTONES

Polyphonic

RANKING. RINGTONE - ARTIST

1. Burn - Usher

2. Overnight Celebrity - Twista

3. Confessions Pt. II - Usher

4. Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay-Z

5. Tipsy (Instrumental) - J-Kwon

6. Roses - OutKast

7. Hotel - Cassidy (feat. R. Kelly)

8. All Falls Down - Kanye West

9. Nuthin' But a "G" Thang - Dr. Dre

10. The Reason - Hoobastank

Rap, hip-hop most popular SMS downloads

Rap and hip-hop music make up the most popular downloads of short message service users, according to a new survey from ForceNine Consulting and SMS.ac Inc, reports RCRNews

"The survey showed 25 percent of more than 26,000 global respondents said they were most likely to download rap and hip-hop as ring tones. For the United States alone, rap and hip-hop music were most likely to be downloaded by nearly 35 percent of respondents".

“While rap and hip-hop topped the list both in the United States and around the world, we did see some important cultural differences in the survey,” explained Andrew Roscoe, a partner at ForceNine Consulting. “Americans were more likely to download TV and mobile themes as ring tones, while the market for classical ring tones, while relatively small, was more significant outside the U.S.”

Related article: TV tunes top mobile ringtone poll

UK's May Ringtone Charts

‘I don't want you back' is Top Of The Ring Tone Pops again in the May Ringtone charts published by the MDA from UK operators… via Moco News.

TV tunes top mobile ringtone poll

I know this sounds like old news, but it comes from the BBC and there is nothing more reliable in my books. So here goes.

"Television theme tunes were the most popular mobile phone ringtones of last year, according to a survey.

The chart is based on information given by 80 licensed ringtone providers to the copyright societies.

Top Ringtones of 2003

1. Where is the Love - Black Eyed Peas
2. Muppet Show - TV theme
3. Mission Impossible - TV theme
4. In Da Club - 50 Cent
5. Pink Panther - TV theme 6. Roobarb and Custard - TV theme
7. Ignition - R Kelly
8. Addams Family - TV theme
9. Lose Yourself - Eminem
10. Happy Days - TV theme

Top Ringtones April

The WSJ publishes Moviso's monthly ringtone pop chart.

1. Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay-Z

2. Overnight Celebrity - Twista

3. Burn - Usher

4. Slow Jamz - Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx

5 Toxic - Britney Spears

6. Milkshake - Kelis

7. If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys

8. In Da Club - 50 Cent

9. Hey Ya! - OutKast

10. The Way You Move - OutKast

Weekly Moviso Ringtone Charts

You will find below the top-20 Moviso ringtones this week on Movie and TV Themes:

1 Pink Panther Theme
2 Bad Boys - Theme from Cops Inner Circle
3 Mission Impossible Theme
4 Sex and the City Theme Theme
5 Inspector Gadget Theme
6 James Bond 007 Theme
7 Knightrider Theme
8 Scooby Doo, Where Are You Theme
9 Addams Family
10 Top Gun Theme
11 Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr.
12 Good The Bad & The Ugl,y Ennio Morricone
13 Axel F (Beverly Hills Cop), Harold Faltermeyer
14 Fraggle Rock, 1 Muppets
15 Good Ol' Boys, (The Dukes Of Hazzard) Theme
16 Theme From Shaft, Isaac Hayes
17 I'll Be There For You (Friends Theme), Rembrandts
18 Soul Bossa Nova (Austin Powers Theme) Quincy Jones
19 Gonna Fly Now (Rocky Theme), Bill Conti
20 Linus and Lucy (Peanuts theme), Vince Guaraldi

If anyone would like the complete list including Hip Hop/Rap and Rock, send me an e-mail and I will forward it to you. emily@netsurf.ch.

Ringtone POP Chart - WSJ

Something I picked up from the WSJ, though the article doesn't say for which market(s) this pop chart applies to or who conducted the survey:

"It looks like 50 Cent is finally facing some competition in the ringtone arena. The superstar rapper maintained his dominance in September, accounting for the top four music downloads.

But Jay-Z, who had only one song on the list in August, was right behind with three of the top 10 spots.

"Frontin," a Pharrell song featuring Jay-Z, jumped up to No. 6 from No. 36, while Beyonce's "Crazy in Love," which also features Jay-Z, climbed to No. 7 from No. 58.

Bone Crusher made the biggest splash. The Atlanta rapper's "Never Scared" shot up to No. 5 from No. 97 in August.

Once again, hip-hop dominated. For the second straight month, the genre provided all 10 songs on the list". -- by Josef Federman, 10/01/03