T-Pain told folks that he got a couple million from ringtones sales off his new album. Isn't that wild? I like the idea though. Hopefully, the artist gets a bigger chunk of the sales of the ring tone biz than the record biz. The issue is that the ringtone prices are crazy!!! $2.49 for a snippet of a song? i can BUY the song for $.99 and re-rip to mp3 and edit it to ringtones! Don't get me started on illegal d/ls.
Isn't it funny that rappers are bragging on their ringtone sales. Ringtones sales??!! WOW. I guess the music industry is changing somewhat. Of course, i dunno how much each artist gets for each ringtone but i will take any way to connect directly to the artist. Or connect closer to the artist.
So now, Common comes out with Finding Forever. I can buy the album for $9.99 or buy 4 ringtones for $10. Now which one makes Common more money? I wanna know. Right now, i am leaning on getting the album cuz I can't pay for a freaking ringtone. Especially when they are more expensive than Itune files.. they are crazy!!! As long Audacity is still open source.. and Windows Mobile phones use Mp3, I will never pay for a ringtone...... Again....
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never understood why people buy ringtones..I have never bought one...NEVER. Even in the days of monophonic ringtones...I always found some site to download ringtones.
It's pretty easy for anyone to make ANY ringtone they want...as long as their phone is compatible with a pc..and they are so many of them in the market...so dangit...why spend money for something u fit get free?
Artists do see more money off ringtones, Young Joc also made money off it..its a great way to make money directly as an artist without the record label digging into your pocket..
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