$1.29 Can't Buy Me Love, but it will get me the ringtone
22/02/2012 |
Apple and EMI announced on Wednesday that the iTunes store is exclusively selling ringtones from The Beatles. The 30-second tones are from the The Beatles no. 1 hits album called 1, which represent the 27 top Beatles tunes in both the U.S. and U.K. Each individual ringtone is $1.29 for iOS device owners.
The catalog of 27 tones ranges from their first U.S.no. 1 in 1964,Love Me Do, to the Fab Four’s final U.S. chart-topper in 1970: The Long and Winding Road. Other songs include A Hard Days...
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