“As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major labels are getting ready to launch the ‘ringle,’ which combines the mostly defunct single format with ringtones,” Ed Christman reports for Billboard.
“Each ringle is expected to contain three songs — one hit and maybe one remix and an older track — and one ringtone, on a CD with a slip-sleeve cover,” Christman reports. “Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which came up with the ringle idea, and Universal Music Group are going to be the first out of the box with ringles. The former will unleash 50 titles during October and November, while UMG will have anywhere from 10 to 20 titles ready.”
“Sources suggest the ringle will carry either a $5.98 or $6.98 list price,” Christman reports.
Full article here.
Why don’t the music cartels just start trying to sell typewriters or cotton gins or something equally as relevant?
$ 5.98 ???????
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr.
How many do they think will sell ? They’d have to beat Apple’s $ 1.98 price.
anything > $2 is too expensive
Whata rip off
6 million songs in iTunes (a fraction of their catalogs) and they will manage to bring 60 to market for the holiday.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Their type should drink more gin and cotton to some new writers.
A what?!?
Ringle?!?
A CD case?!?
I haven’t bought a CD since Christmas because it was a Christmas CD that I couldn’t get on iTunes. (The Percy Faith Christmas CD only has a Partial Album on iTunes. I hate that.)
sounds like a cross promotion opportunity for Pringles
mmmmmmmmmm Cotton Gin mmmmmmmmm
And music snippets that stick in your head and can be mildly painful and annoying will be known as ringleberries.
A Ringle? Is that a cross between Ricketts and Shingles? Sounds painful.
I have to agree. This is just stupid. Sound like some kind of venereal disease.
This slipped out early. It’s not April 1st yet.
“As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber”, – nah, they are dreaming, still well asleep.
The etymology of ringle has more to do with wringer, (as in put you through the wringer) and wrinkle, surprisingly not linked to wringer. They thought of ringer but seriously who’d buy a ringer? On second thoughts maybe some Winkers would, their OS is.
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That’s an ok idea – seriously!!!
But here’s a better one:
Include stickers and fan club info in the booklet, mingled with low-fi concert footage right there on the CD.
If anyone knows anyone at Sony BMG Music Entertainment, i’m looking for a job, and my above idea is just a small sampling of what i’ve got up in the attic.
I had the shingles once…..
$6 for a single music tune and a ringtone. ?????
What an Ultra-maroone.
What a Nin-cow poop.
That is so yesterday.
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Have the song, get a ringtone for 99 cents.
But what bothers me is that the writers just cannot put one and one together and mention the iPhone ringtones for 99 cents. ???
Writer vs journalist. Maybe??
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Typewriter – not relevant
Cotton gin – still relevant (unless you have cotton seeds in your jeans!)
May Universal Music go the way of dodo stuffers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
a better name wuld be a “Nipplet”, just enough to tease you but not enough to make anyone want it.
Then the phone company will charge you to upload the ringtone to your phone..
Why is it that I feel as though we have discussed the “ringle” before? And it sticks in my head as an Apple patent?
Another time and place?
This is what NBC wants on iTunes
new episode of Office, with a couple of 5-10 year old sitcoms, all bundled for 4.99 what a deal, is Jobs an idiot, not to jump on this?
If only the Zune had video
Stupid is what stupid does — Forest Gump.
Whaaaat? Did this brilliant brainstorm come from an episode of Dilbert or something? Is it a disease like ringworms? A bad remake of the Divx (selfdestructing DVDs) format for CDs? This should be something you give away with Happy Meals or perhaps a freebee when you buy a Webkinz or Beanie Baby or collect 25 cereal box tops. Or perhaps you could buy it from those dispensers you see in gas station bathrooms.
Davey G,
That was “vingle:”
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/8132/
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/7263/
http://ipoddailynews.com/index.php/ipoddailynews/comments/apples_vingle_trademark_application_sparks_speculation
Where are they going to sell these ‘ringle’ at? There are so few brick and mortar stores left.
hotinplaya – LMAO! Good one.