Verizon Song ID app passes 10M subscriber benchmark

Verizon Wireless announced that 10 million subscribers have downloaded its V Cast Song ID mobile music discovery application, first introduced in mid-2007. Song ID enables consumers to identify a piece of music by capturing a 10-second sample via mobile handset and seconds later receiving title and artist information as well as corresponding download, ringtone and ringback offers--according to Verizon, a South Dakota subscriber is the 10 millionth customer to download the free app, with an average of 18,000 consumers downloading Song ID each day.

Verizon Wireless subscribers have now requested more than 100 million song titles since Song ID's debut. Over the past few months, the top 10 song title requests are:

• "Whatever You Like" (T.I.)
• "Lollipop" (L'il Wayne)
• "Paper Planes" (M.I.A.)
• "Addicted" (Saving Abel)
• "Paralyzer" (Finger Eleven)
• "Independent" (Webbie)
• "I Luv Your Girl" (The-Dream)
• "Crank That and Tell' Em" (Soulja Boy)
• "Sexy Can I" (Ray J featuring Yung Berg)
• "Fall for You" (Secondhand Serenade)

The top 10 songs identified, downloaded and purchased as ringback tones are:

• "Whatever You Like" (T.I)
• "Addicted" (Saving Abel)
• "Paper Planes" (M.I.A.)
• "I Luv Your Girl" (The-Dream)
• "Fall for You" (Secondhand Serenade)
• "Lollipop" (L'il Wayne)
• "Apologize" (Timbaland)
• "I'm Yours" (Jason Mraz)
• "Suffocate" (J. Holiday)
• "Independent" (Webbie)

For more on the Song ID subscriber benchmark:
- read this release

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