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USA Ringback Tones to Grow to $235 Million in 2009

Music performing rights organization, Broadcast Music (BMI) has published its annual mobile music market revenue projections for 2009 and finalized its earlier figures for 2008. BMI projects that ringback tones will surpass $235 million in U.S. retail sales during calendar year 2009, up 15% from BMI's 2008 market estimate of $205 million and 68% from BMI's 2007 estimate of $140 million. BMI estimates that more than 10 million U.S. subscribers are signed up for ringback-tone services with their wireless carriers. Ringback-tone services have an industry-wide average penetration rate of approximately 4%. Subscriber penetration by carrier for ringback tones ranges from less than 2% to a high of 9%.  more

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Vodafone UK Offering Unlimited Music Downloads

Vodafone UK has announced that its customers will have unlimited access to over a million tracks from all the major record labels, as well as leading independents, on a range of new handsets for Christmas. Through an exclusive agreement with Omnifone, the UK based mobile music company, Vodafone will roll out their MusicStation, giving customers the ability to download tracks from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Music and Warner Music Group direct to their handsets, even while on the move. Customers will be able to sign up for unlimited downloads from MusicStation for £1.99 (US$4) per week. The MusicStation service will be accessed through Vodafone live! on a wide range of music handsets.  more

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