Ringscan

In the new computer age, the greatest vehicle for music consumption is done through ringtone sales. It has become a more accurate way of counting an artist or groups popularity status by downloaded ringtone units. Neilsen's RingScan (used for calculating ringtone sales) reports, Hip-hop is accountable for thirteen percent of the top 100 mastertones sold in 2008. The top three belong to hip-hop aswell.

Top honours go to Lil Wayne as the most purchased ringtone of '08. His "Lollipop" track was downloaded 2.36 million times, with a margin of one million plus over runner-up, T.I. whose "Whatever You Like" took 1.62 million purchased downloads.

Flo-Rida followed behind in third with "Low" which came a fraction under T.I. by .02 million units.

The 100 top mastertones of 2008 sold a collective 43.8 million copies, estimated at 26% of all ringtones sold that year.

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