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Phone ring tone set to top U.K. charts

Video killed the radio star, now cell phones have killed the video star.

From Business Week: A cell-phone ring tone based on the sound of a revving Swedish mo-ped, "Crazy Frog Axel F," appeared set to top the British singles chart Sunday, outselling the new single by Coldplay by nearly four to one.

Sounds to me like poetic justice. Now if only someone could base a cell-phone ring on the sound of a toilet flushing...

(Thanks, Joe Garden!)

Posted by carrie on 05/29/2005 | Permalink

Comments

Hmmmm I wonder if I should get a cell phone......? "Slap"! Thanks, man. What was I thinking?

Posted by: James Dylan | May 31, 2005 3:12:36 PM

weird... didn't know ringtones went on the singles charts

Posted by: die bene tleilax | Jun 1, 2005 3:06:03 PM

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