Cingular Sounds(TM) Just Got a Little Bit Hipper and a Whole Lot Bigger with Exclusive Missy Elliott Collection
23 Août 2005 - 3:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Cingular Wireless Pumps Up Ringtone Library with an Unprecedented
26 Titles from Hip Hop Diva, Missy Elliott ATLANTA, Aug. 23
/PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless, Warner Music Group and Atlantic
Music Group today announced that Missy Elliott has joined the
Cingular Sounds(TM) family of artists, providing 26 chart-topping
tracks to be available as exclusive 30-second ringtones to Cingular
customers. The Missy Elliott collection, coined "Missy Tones," is a
perfect addition to the Cingular Sounds program as it represents
the latest and greatest titles from one of music's most innovative
and influential female superstars. To view the Multimedia News
Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/cingular/22528/ "The
addition of Missy Elliott, the best-selling female rap artist of
all- time, marks the introduction of the largest collection of
music content into the Cingular Sounds program," said John Burbank,
vice president of marketing, Cingular Wireless. "Cingular Sounds
continues to set the stage for us to introduce and, in this case,
re-introduce our wireless customers to some of the hottest music
content available today." "Warner Music Group is committed to
making the mobile space an important place for consumers to connect
with our artists," said Michael Nash, Senior Vice President,
Digital Strategy and Business Development. "With this agreement,
Warner Music Group not only extends our great partnership with
Cingular, but, for the first time, makes Missy Elliott master
ringtones available to her many fans." "Missy Elliott has always
enjoyed a unique bond with her fans, a relationship that will be
dramatically enhanced through this exciting new association with
Cingular," said Camille Hackney, Vice President of Strategic
Marketing, Atlantic Records. "With over two dozen masters spanning
her entire career now available in the ringtone world, Missy fans
will have an unprecedented ability to customize their wireless
phones with their own personal Missy favorites. This is the next
evolution in Missy's career as a groundbreaking, forward-thinking
artist, and Cingular is the perfect partner." "Mobile technology is
quickly becoming a dominant medium for content and it is important
to us, at Violator, to keep our clients on the forefront of
emerging trends," said Elliott's manager Mona Scott, President of
Violator Management. "Cingular presented a very progressive
opportunity for us to partner Missy with an industry leader and we
are excited to be in business with them." The Collection Missy
Elliott's extensive music catalog is being launched exclusively as
Music Tones through Cingular Sounds. Titles include: "Lose Control"
"Get Ur Freak On" "Hot Boyz" "I'm Really Hot" "One Minute Man" "4
My Man" "Bad Man" "Gossip Folks" "Joy" "Mommy" "Pump it Up" "Sock
It 2 Me" "Teary Eyed" "Time And Again" "She's A B*tch" "All N My
Grill" "Beep Me 911" "Hit 'Em Wit' Da Hee" "Busa Rhyme" "Click
Clack" "On and On" "Remember" "Slide" "Take Away" "The Rain" "Work
It" To download a Missy Elliott-featured Music Tone from a GSM
phone, including her latest smash single "Lose Control (featuring
Ciara and Fat Man Scoop)," which has received an impressive six
nominations for the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, Cingular
customers should: - Go to MEdia Mall on their phone's main menu -
Select "Shop Ringtones" - Select Cingular Sounds - Follow the
onscreen prompt to download the ringtone After downloading, the
ringtone can be set to play on incoming calls from the phone's Main
Menu. Cingular customers are charged a one-time download fee of
$2.49 for ringtones, plus a charge for the number of kilobytes or
minutes used to download the ringtone to a wireless phone. Cingular
customers can also go the Cingular Sounds website
(http://www.cingularsounds.com/) to preview, purchase and download
the Missy Elliott ringtone collection. Enjoy More Savings with the
Cingular Sounds Tone Club Cingular has launched the Cingular Sounds
Tone Club -- a new feature that lets ringtone fans download new
Music Tones each month at a significant savings, as compared to
buying Music Tones separately. The Tone Club offers two unique
packages: 3 Pack and 6 Pack. By paying a monthly fee, customers can
choose from any available Music Tones, polyphonic ringtones or
graphics from Cingular's vast content catalog. Tone Club package
details include: 3 Pack 6 Pack Subscription Price: $5.99/month
$9.99/month Ringtones: 3 Music Tones 6 Music Tones or polyphonic or
polyphonic ringtones or ringtones or Graphics Graphics Savings over
Music Tones purchased separately: 20 percent 30 percent To learn
more about the Cingular Sounds Tone Club visit
http://www.cingularsounds.com/. About Missy Elliott A five-time
Grammy Award winner, Missy Elliott has cooked up another hit with
her new Goldmind/Atlantic album, "The Cookbook," which debuted in
the #2 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album marks
Elliott's sixth full- length release since making her solo debut in
1997. The best-selling female hip-hop artist of all time, her many
accolades include 17 MTV award nominations, three BET Awards, and
five Lady of Soul/Soul Train Awards. Not only a visionary recording
artist and performer, Elliott is one of the few women who enjoy an
equal amount of success behind the scenes. As a prolific songwriter
and producer, she has acquired a star-studded list of production
credits that includes Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Christina
Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, and Destiny's Child, among others. As
the head of her own record label, The Goldmind, Inc., she launched
the career of R&B star Tweet. Elliott has just wrapped up the
first season of her dramality show, UPN's The Road To Stardom with
Missy Elliott, and she has created a unique joint venture with
adidas for a line of clothing, shoes, and accessories under the
moniker, Respect ME. Elliott is a native of Virginia. The Cingular
Sounds Family - March 2004 - Cingular becomes the first wireless
provider to offer authentic music content from all major record
labels, including: EMI Music (Capitol Records' parent company),
Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner
Music. - April 2005 - Cingular makes music history when it
announced the Cingular Sounds program and debuts the Coldplay
single "Speed of Sound" as a Music Tone ringtone before it can be
heard anywhere else. - May 2005 - Cingular introduces the
first-ever wireless content from Gwen Stefani including exclusive
ringtones from her album "Love, Angel, Music, Baby" and a video
postcard from her latest single "Hollaback Girl" - July 2005 -
Cingular Sounds introduces its first country music wireless
content, launching "All Jacked Up" by Gretchen Wilson as an
exclusive Music Tone ringtone before its debut on radio. - August
2005 - Rock group Foo Fighters launch their new single D.O.A.
exclusively on the Cingular Sounds stage prior to its radio debut.
Foo Fighters also launched six more tracks as Music Tones as part
of the Cingular Sounds program. About Cingular Wireless Cingular
Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States,
serving 51.6 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between
SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth Corporation
(NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the
nation -- the ALLOVER(SM) network -- and the largest
mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier.
Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(R),
the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly
minutes. Details of the company are available at
https://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases
emailed to you automatically. Sign up at
https://www.cingular.com/newsroom. About Warner Music Group Warner
Music Group (WMG) became the only stand-alone music company to be
publicly traded in the United States in May 2005. With its broad
roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is
home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music
industry including Atlantic, Bad Boy, Elektra, Lava, Maverick,
Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. and Word. Warner Music
International, a leading company in national and international
repertoire operates through numerous international affiliates and
licensees in more than 50 countries. Warner Music Group also
includes Warner/Chappell Music, one of the world's leading music
publishers, with a catalog of more than one million copyrights
worldwide. About Atlantic Records Established in New York City in
1947, Atlantic Records grew from literally a one-room operation
into one of the world's preeminent music companies. Atlantic has
released a string of recordings which have had a profound impact on
the course of modern music, its rich history including such musical
icons as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Coltrane, and Led
Zeppelin. The Atlantic roster today includes many of the world's
most popular recording artists, among them Bjork, Ryan Cabrera,
Tracy Chapman, Phil Collins, The Darkness, Craig David, Missy
Elliott, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Jet, Jewel, Juvenile, Kid Rock, Lil'
Kim, matchbox twenty, Jason Mraz, Sean Paul, P.O.D., Pretty Ricky,
Rush, Shinedown, Staind, Sugar Ray, T.I., Trick Daddy, Twista, and
many more. Visit http://www.atlanticrecords.com/ for more
information. DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Jennifer
Bowcock of Cingular Wireless, Wireless: +1-404-213-1204, or Office:
+1-404-236-6319, or ; or Will Tanous of Warner Music Group,
+1-212-275-2244, or ; or Sheila Richman of Atlantic Records,
+1-212-707-3063, or Web site: http://www.cingularsounds.com/
https://www.cingular.com/ https://www.cingular.com/newsroom
http://www.atlanticrecords.com/
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