High School Musical Ringtones

The Popularity of High School Musical Ringtones

A quick search on Google Trends for "high school musical" displays an interesting line graph that charts the popularity of Disney Channel's High School Musical TV movie musicals. The popularity spikes during, and after, every major release. The most significant spike was during the second release. Even though the search trends since then have recovered from the initial spike, the overall popularity of the search continues to climb - and this reflects the overall popularity and demand for High School Musical movies and products.

Is High School Musical That Popular?

According to a 2006 article in USA Today, the premiere of High School Musical averaged 7.7 million viewers, which was, according to the report, a network record and the number one ranked movie over all other basic cable networks. The premiere kicked off a frenzy of promotion and product marketing that led to an overall bonanza of things High School Musical.

• The soundtrack made the Nielsen "top 10" list
• Individual song downloads are impressive, Breaking Free selling over 192,000 downloads in about a month
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment produced the movie on DVD
• Disney released a sequel in 2007, with another planned later in 2008
• High school Musical dolls, books, and other toys fill the shelves at department stores

Why It's Cool to Ring to High School Musical

High School Musical is most popular among so-called "tweens". These are kids aged 9 to 14 who are much too cool for Barney, but also still too young for MTV. A 2005 Washington Post article reports that 55 percent of teens have wireless phones, and a quarter of kids 12 and under have cell phones. The same report noted that Walt Disney announced a deal with Sprint to target 8 to 12 year-olds for wireless service. So, it is not very surprising that High School Musical ringtones are popular, especially among this particular age group.

Where to Download the Ringtones

Since more teens and preteens own cellphones today than ever before, the demand for ringtones of all types are in hot demand. Ringtones typically cost between $1.50 to $3.00, but most teens like to change ringtones often. This is why teens will typically download multiple ringtones at the same time.

Ringtones such as those for High School Musical are most easily found on MP3 or MIDI tone sites targeting the same age group of tweens. The following websites are a few that offer large libraries of such musical ringers for your cell phone.

FunTonia - This site offers 24 hit songs like Breaking Free, All For One, Get'cha Head In The Game, and Bet On It.

MSN Emotions - MSN Emotions is a popular resource site for users of MSN Messenger. Four tones are offered here including Bet On It, I Gotta Go My Own Way, What Time Is It, and You Are The Music In Me.

RingoPhone - This website is offers one of the larger collections of High School Musical ringtones. This list of 28 ringtones includes Start Of Something New, You Are The Music In Me, and Fabulous.

RingoStation - Here you can download ringtones such as Get'cha Head In The Game, I Don't Dance, or Start Of Something New.

Some Final Words

Popular sensations come and go, and it's often difficult to know how long certain hits will remain at the top. However, one thing that is certain about the High School Musical series - with another sequel planned for release in 2008, and with booming sales for all things related, this is one strong upward popular trend with no end in sight.