2007 Wrap-Up: Ringtones Of The Year

December 28th, 2007

So you got a new phone for the holidays and you’re tired of that lame-o default ringtone? Don’t fret because we are your #1 source for getting rid of that embarrassing ringer.

I get a lot of slack around here for my Beck Girl ringtone that sounds like a pager from 1993. Truth be told, I should get something a little more modern. So I’ve thrown together a list of some of the top ringtones of the year mixed with some great oldies and hidden gems…If you dig them don’t forget to click ‘embed’ to add to your Facebook, MySpace, etc.

TOP TONES

Timbaland f. OneRepublic – Apologize
Not a surprise. This track has been doing amazing and makes a great ringer.

Rihanna – Don’t Stop the Music
This was defintely the year of Rihanna. Umbrella was one of the best kick off singles released from an artist in ages. But our statistical and factual research dept. here has watched ‘Don’t Stop..’ climb the ringtone charts for the last few months. This is going to be a strong one going into ’08. Come back from the winter break with this track and you will get noticed.

Crank That (Soulja Boy) [Robocop]
I still can’t figure out why no one is concerned with the proliferation of ‘Supermanning’ and ‘Robocopping’ into kids’ vocabulary this year. Look it up people! Anyways…you can’t argue that Souja Boy came out of nowhere and had you dancing like a tripping Weeble all over the place. This is a crazy hot ringtone too. So make sure you Robocop this tone and Superman that phoooooooone.

Gimme More – Britney Spears
There is nothing wrong with watching trainwrecks…or assigning them as ringtones. The Brit ‘comeback’ single sounds amazing coming out of a 1/2 inch cellphone speaker. Buy it now and make sure Britney gets a little more money to buy Fresca and Slice for her kids’ baby bottles.

MSTRKRFT, Justice and Daft Punk took over the DFA1979 reigns as this years dance-punk heroes. All of their tracks make amazing ringtones and definitely should be checked out.

MSTRKRFT – Street Justice
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Daft Punk – Da Funk (Alive 2007)

Oldies But Goodies

Instant cred when your phone rings. Who needs Timbaland when you’ve got BBD…and who knew Rick Rubin would cut great ringtones 20 years ago!

Bell Biv DeVoe – Poison

The Beastie Boys – (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)

Randoms

‘The Office’ phone – If you want to give your friends and co-workers the impression that you are taking that next big extra-white non-fiber paper order for Dunder Mifflin make sure to get this awesome tone and you will be Assistant to the Regional Manager in no time.

And if you’ve made it this far…why not grab a piece of 1995 and download this gem for your car phone.

Posted on Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 5:06 pm by Denise R and is filed under Just For Fun.