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By Samuel Mitone
The ringtone industry is striking a popular cord with the teenage market. This group, mostly 13 to 24-year-olds, likes to purchase their favorite tune or sound without paying the high price for a CD. This segment isn't afraid to drop lots of discretionary income to download monophonic or polyphonic sounds, which makes the ringtone industry very happy.
RealityTVWorld.com reports that teens don't want the few that come with their phone and they'll pay to add to their collection. Due to this buying behavior, this group is the ringtone industry's largest market. In fact, over 40% of ringtone buyers fall into this category. According to Wireless World Forum, this market is so huge that this young group is spending eight times more on mobile phones than on music. Trends in the U.K. show that 10% of the total music market is comprised of ringtones. The US market is also watching how this buying power is affecting CD sales. Many US teenagers are spending more on than on text messaging. Other figures show that ringtone sales worldwide are about $3.5 billion, according to IT Facts (www.itfacts.biz).
Naturally, the music industry isn't highly thrilled about this shift in sales from the more expensive CD to much less expensive - even though the publisher or songwriter of the music or tone is entitles to royalties. Still, a ringtone royalty isn't quite as high of a percentage as a CD royalty. Some future analysts of this market are predicting that the mobile phone and ringtone industry are going to dip even farther into the music industry by giving mobile phones
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technology similar to iPods; whereby, the cell phone user can download much longer versions of with the high quality of a DVD or CD and store this music for a long period of time on their cell phone.
Many teenagers continue to enjoy downloading their favorite tunes through their mobile phone or off online sites, although many phone services are offering promotions with free ringtones. Most teenagers don't think twice about exchanging their minutes for ringtones. Ringtones turn up with various sounds. From full versions with or without tunes to acoustic or synthesized versions of familiar tunes, carry some unique sounds that signal a message or call. Only mobile phones with the latest technology can handle the newest ringtones, so many teenagers are upgrading their phones. To know the most popular ringtones, check out the top 10 music hits on the radio. Remix sounds and original sounds however are starting to make headway on the ringtone charts.
Most likely, the teen market will continue to dominate the ringtone industry for the next couple years until the younger age group (age 7 to 12) owns more cell phones. To download the latest top hits, check out http://feveringtones.com/downloadableringtone/, your phone service provide like Verizon Ringtones (3gUpload.com), or http://feveringtones.com/downloadfreeringtones/
Copyright 2006 Samuel Mitone. All rights reserved.
Samuel Mitone operates Fever Ringtones one of the most popular sources of ringtone information, download resources, and news on the Internet. For further details visit his archive of articles here: www.feveringtones.com/newsletters/
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