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What percentage of total music revenue is composed of ringtone sales?

Asked by andrew (16562points) September 5th, 2007

In light of the new Apple keynote, I remember that an insane amount of worldwide music revenue is from ringtones. Can anyone provide figures?

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in 2005, ringtones pulled in $600 million source and the average annual music revenue for the united states is about 12 billion (wiki). So thats just 5 percent of the total music sales

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@mirza Lower than I expected… though I seem to remember that foreign ringtone sales are huge compared to the US… what, with all those Deutschlanders downloading David Hasselhoff singles…

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