Ringtonia found an article in Variety about the Asian digital music market, which wasn’t that interesting, but had some nice stats about what’s going on in mobile music there:
- South Korea’s online and mobile music sales are already higher than CD sales
- 2 billion polyphonic ringtones were downloaded in Japan in 2004 — that’s an average of almost 22 per mobile subscriber
- China Mobile’s got 40 million ringback tone subscribers
- Phone vendors in Korea are predicting sales of 10 million handsets that can play MP3s — five times the number of standalone music players
Wow. 22 ringtones per subscriber — or 16 for every man, woman and child in the country.
And iTunes sold over a million songs in the four days since it opened in Japan!(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/08/itunes_japan/
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