Ringtones to overtake singles sales...

[Phantaxus]

see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/314
3651.stm If this is the case then a good way for the music industry to persuade the public to buy more singles would be to include the ringtone along with the single and to enforce the copyrights to prevent the ringtone from being available from another source. Comments please'.

[adzy31]

In my opinion, the record industry's doomed. They're losing money at the moment due to crappy sales. Correct? The only way the Napster Morpheus etc fans are going to start buying albums is if they lower the price, in which case they'll still be losing money. Only thing is an outright worldwide ban on p2p which, obviously, people wouldn't be a fan of. Alternatively the record companies could launch a big advertising campaign thing that persuades p2p users that they're destroying the record industry. Doubt that'd work either. Looks grim to me. It's the end of the time of classic musicians, singers, bands etc, like the beatles, queen, (gong, are fantastic), mike oldfield, and .... all the other ppl i don't know of/haven't wrote down. All we get in the charts these days is barrels of the poor individuals who believe they're actually good, used to bump up TV ratings on pop idol, fame academy, etc. Anyway, to bring my rambling back to the question, nope, I don't think including ringtones would boost music sales. Why buy an album, bundled with a ringtone, when you can download the music for free and even find the ringtone free in keypress format somewhere if you're really bothered. I'm gonna stop now before i make even more probably wrong points and create a mass argument.

[adzy31]

Ringtone chart: 1. XTM - Fly on the Wings of Love 2. Beyonce Knowles (above) - Crazy In Love 3. Blu Cantrell - Breathe 4. Coldplay - Clocks 5. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells ^LOOK!!!!!!! MIKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA that's well good. *cough* Ahem. I'm not crazy. Nope. Catty cat cat. That's me. *www.matazone.co.uk - go buy a T-shirt.*

[adzy31]

(why can't you put returns in the answers. replace the ^LOOK with <-LOOK, please.)