Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Darling, they're playing our ringtone!
Fantastic news for our friends, The Major Record Labels! As sales of singles fall through the floor all is not lost. It seems that soon sales of mobile phone ringtones will be outselling singles! [BBC]
This has all sorts of exciting implications. Musicians will only need to write songs 12 seconds long and they won't need lyrics (or singers (or bands)). Albums will still be 45 minutes long but will contain 225 tracks and one day soon a happy couple will be walking down the aisle accompanied not by Bryan Adams wailing "Everything I Do, I Do For You", but "The Nokia Tune".
Fantastic news for our friends, The Major Record Labels! As sales of singles fall through the floor all is not lost. It seems that soon sales of mobile phone ringtones will be outselling singles! [BBC]
This has all sorts of exciting implications. Musicians will only need to write songs 12 seconds long and they won't need lyrics (or singers (or bands)). Albums will still be 45 minutes long but will contain 225 tracks and one day soon a happy couple will be walking down the aisle accompanied not by Bryan Adams wailing "Everything I Do, I Do For You", but "The Nokia Tune".
