Ring-a-ding-ding, cell phone ringtone sales are on an upswing.
In 2007, the recording industry continued to benefit from mobile music, with mobile phone owners buying 220 million ringtones, according to numbers recently released from Nielsen Music Year-End Music Report.
Sales revenue totaled $567 million.
During the last week of the year (Christmas week), ringtone purchases increased by 22 percent over the previous week, and overall, Mastertone purchases accounted for 91 percent of annual ringtone sales, the report showed.
Songs like the classics, "Super Mario Bros." by Koji Kondo, and "Pink Panther" by Henry Mancini, are all-around favorites, hitting No. 1 and No. 4 on Nielsen polyphonic ring tone sales chart for 2007. "Candy Shop," by 50 Cent was No. 2; Nickelback's "Rockstar" was No. 3; Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" was No. 4. (Seriously, no "Sweet Home Alabama"? I hear that everywhere.)
Of Mastertone sales (aka polyphonics' better-sounding cousin) was T-Pain's "Buy U A Drank" at No. 1, with Mims' "This Is Why I'm Hot," Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," Shop Boyz' "Party Like A Rock Star" and Akon's "Don't Matter" rounding out the top 5.
Numbers are culled from Nielsen RingScan, which tracks mobile ringtone purchases.
Numbers are for year-end sales and performance monitoring data for the 52-week period Jan. 1 through Dec. 30, 2007.
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