Hot Ringtones
Billboard chart
Hot Ringtones (also known as just Ringtones) was a record chart published weekly by Billboard. It is their first chart to be published that ranks the most popular ringtones.
The chart was quietly discontinued on December 6, 2014; the final chart was released on November 29, 2014, and the final number-one song on the chart was "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift.
01Background
On October 26, 2004, Billboard staff announced that they would be adding a new chart for ringtones.
02Hot RingMasters
In 2006, Billboard introduced a new ringtones chart titled Hot RingMasters. The first number one song on the Hot RingMasters chart, for the issue dated December 2, 2006, was "Smack That" by Akon and Eminem.
03Hot MasterTones
On April 3, 2006, John Kilcullen, president and publisher of Billboard Information Group, and Geoff Mayfield, Billboard's director of charts, announced a new Billboard ringtone chart titled "Hot MasterTones" at Billboard MECCA 2006.
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