Ringtone Artists

Preface:

In this day and age of "always connected", "always on", and "always available", consumers find it difficult to distinguish themselves from the pack. According the the 2003 United States Census, there are more than 159 million Cell Phones in the US alone. That is up nearly 300% from 1995. There are 180 mobile phone providers in the United States alone and hundreds of hardware choices. List of United States mobile phone companies. Consumers choices for these providers is based largely on their geographic location in the United States, and their hardware choices are somewhat limited by the network's hardware contracts. Therefore, it is likely that two people in the same area have the same cellular device. A relatively cheap and easy way for consumers to customize their phones is to add ringtones of their favorite artists. This is where the term Ringtone Artist was born.

History:

This term was first used to describe a composer that made Polyphonic ringtones for early cellular phone devices. Most of these ringtones were simple versions of popular songs done on a electric piano.

Definition:

Ringtone Artists are defined as any artist that creates a song whose general spirit, intent and meaning can be gathered from its ringtone clip.

Further Explanation:

Any artist that has a song catalog greater than 50% of which can be purchased as a ringtone.

Any artist that has sold more ringtones than albums.

Those artists whose songs you would not pay 99 cent to download, but for whose ringtones you would pay 3 times that amount.

Ringtone Artists are neither good nor bad and can be of any genre of music from any country and from any generation.

Examples:

Rihanna

Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

Fergie

T-pain

Kenny Loggins

May be somehow expanded to film quotes.

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