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RINGTONES MADE AVAILBLE BY WORD RECORDS Print Email
Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:00 PM America/New_York

Word Records launched 20 new ring tones, currently available for download to Sprint, AT&T and Cingular wireless customers. Content also has been provided to T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, who will have them available shortly.

The initial launch of the ring tones include hit songs from Sixpence None the Richer, Nicole C. Mullen, downhere, Salvador, 38th Parallel and Across The Sky. In addition to these 20 initial offerings, ring tones for artists such as Randy Travis, Mark Schultz, Rachael Lampa, Point Of Grace, Jaci Velasquez and many others are currently in production.

The global ring-tone sales market-which generated $3 billion dollars at year-end 2003-is forecasted to grow in excess of $4.7 billion by 2008.