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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedFollowing Idol success, Cingular to sell unknowns' ringtones.(News)
RCR Wireless News, April, 2006
Byline: Kelly Hill Having set itself up as the text-message connection for American Idol, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is aiming to help other musical unknowns grab a bit of the limelight. Cingular is partnering with the popular social networking Web site MySpace.com and mobile content company InfoSpace Inc.
to give the estimated 1 million musicians promoting themselves via MySpace the chance to turn their songs into ringtones and sell them to fans. According to the companies, the Mobile Music Studio is in beta mode and being tested by about 75 unsigned groups and individuals. The service uses a dedicated page on MySpace.com to guide the musicians through a licensing and production process in which they upload a short track. The track then is...
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