T-Pain

Zed Signs Exclusive Ringtone Deals with T-Pain, KOCH

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 13, 2008 - 11:33am.

Denver - Mobile entertainment publisher Zed has announced a deal with top-selling hip-hop artist T-Pain and his record label, Nappy Boy Digital, to exclusively distribute T-Pain ringtones to mobile carriers and through its own portals. T-Pain has to date sold more than 15 million ringtones. Zed also signed a similar exclusive deal with KOCH Entertainment, an independent label whose artists include Ray J, UNK and Kottonmouth Kings.

Hip-Hop Artist T-Pain Launches Nappy Boy Digital Label

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 10, 2008 - 12:18pm.

Atlanta - Hip-hop producer and artist T-Pain has announced the launch of his own full-service, independent digital record label, Nappy Boy Digital. T-Pain will release both his own tracks and those of others to digital retailers via Nappy Boy Digital. The label's first release will be "Beam Me Up," a track from collaborator Tay Dizm that was produced by Bangladesh and features T-Pain and Rick Ross. To date, T-Pain has sold more than 15 million ringtones, while the single "Buy U A Drank" off his last record sold 1.5 million downloads.

Top-Selling Ringtone "Buy U a Drank" Hits 2.3 Million Downloads

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 23, 2007 - 11:05am.
T-Pain Has 2007's Top-Selling RingtoneDenver - The best-selling ringtone of 2007 to date is "Buy U a Drank" by R&B artist T-Pain, which has sold over 2.3 million units, Billboard reported, citing data from Nielsen RingScan. That figure is nearly double the 1.6 million digital downloads of the song that have been sold, and far outnumbers the 686,000 copies of the album, "Epiphany," from which the single comes.