Mobile usage a rare highlight in music biz - washingtonpost.com

DENVER (Billboard) - The mobile music landscape is very much a study in good news, bad news.

The bad news is that mobile music has failed to live up to the expectations that the early success of ringtones had inspired. Combined ringtone and ringback tone sales have fallen almost 23 percent so far this year, according to Nielsen RingScan. And Forrester Research analyst Sonal Gandhi estimates that only one-third of U.S. mobile subscribers with music-capable phones use their devices to listen to music...