The Most Listened To Melody in the World

Posted by yayo in Gadget, Music, VideoSift on May 9, 2008 at 12:04 pm


If you hit the “Play” button you can listen Peppe Giorri playing this beautiful Gran Vals para Guitarra a.k.a. Valse Grande… If you listen carefully, just after the 15-second mark you’ll probably recognize the so called Nokia Tune, which rings in more than 800,000 phones all over the world every day, making it the world’s most listened to melody. It is also repeated through out the whole vals.

The song is composed by Francisco Tárrega Eixea (1852, 1909) [wiki].

Listen the whole track, it’s wonderful.

Link [youtube video]


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11 comments to "The Most Listened To Melody in the World"

  1. Algonkin
    May 9th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    You're right yayo..it is wonderful.

  2. Jonathan
    May 9th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    It's a great tune, but now i'm so used to the "Nokia Tune", it sounds unfinished, since it doesn't end on doh

  3. Jerse
    May 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    If only Eixea were alive today - just think of the royalties would get...

  4. Jaycatt
    May 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    I'm very glad to hear this tune in its entirety. Since it is the default ring tone for so many phones, I've grown to hate it with a passion. However, being able to hear the actual melody redeems it.

  5. ted
    May 9th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    "It’s repeated through the whole vals, making it the world’s most listened to melody in the world."

    Repeating it throughout the whole waltz isn't what makes it the most-listened-to.

    Is that the same ringtone from the movie Jurassic Park III - the phone that was pooped out of the big dinosaur?

  6. Alex
    May 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

    You're right, ted - it doesn't ;) I butchered that editing (sorry, Yayo!) - fixed now.

  7. CheeseDuck
    May 9th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    @Jonathan

    The "doh" is there, just an octave lower.

  8. Ali S.
    May 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Ah, everytime I heard the nokia tune I kept thinking my cellphone was ringing. Awesome find! :)

  9. Erik
    May 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    While I give homeboy huge props for going on stage to perform a technically difficult piece, his performance is, critically speaking, unlistenable. Like the Nokia ringtone.

    K thx bai.

  10. esa
    May 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    You'd have to quite stupid and ignorant not to know the origin of the tune. then again, most americans are

  11. yayo
    May 18th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Sorry Esa, but I haven't understand your comment ^g^


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