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Monday May 30, 2005 3:37 pm
“Crazy Frog” Ringtone Tops UK Charts
If you needed proof that we now live in a digital age, here it is. The band Coldplay had their hopes of a #1 debut for their newest single dashed this weekend when “Crazy Frog Axle F,” a wildly popular ring tone, sold more copies. That’s right – a mobile phone ring tone is topping the charts in the UK right now.
Update: It has been falsely reported, with the popularity of this super-hot new ringtone, that the song was originally written less than a decade ago by a 17-year-old Swedish student. However, a sharp-eyed reader pointed out that the song is much older – appearing on the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack in 1984.
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Comments:
It’s true:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles.shtml
Ah, I hate that ringtone.
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Axel F was written by a 17 year old a decade ago?
Someone must have invented a time machine then because I remember it being very popular in the 80’s when Beverly Hills Cop came out.
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I’ll have to look into that! The news article I read claimed it was written by a 17 year old in the early ninties. :\ I’d never personally even heard of the song until I got that weird little news tidbit about the ringtone!
Kristin W.
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Take a look at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002O1V/qid=1117553514/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-9778533-3553615?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
and listen to track #10 and see if it sounds familiar.
That’s from 1984.
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Oh almost forgot, “Axel F” stands for Axel Foley, the name of Eddie Murpheys character in the Beverly Hills Cop movies. :D
(now I feel old)
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