Please welcome the most popular frog of the year, Crazy Frog!!!!

Crazy Frog, a marketing title of a ring tone, is based on The Annoying Thing, a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. This character wears only a white motorcycle helmet with the chinstrap unfastened, a leather jacket, and goggles. Actually, the Crazy Frog’s character is NOT a frog. It’s an anthropomorphic amphibian, but since his appearance is like a frog, the nick name Crazy Frog came up.

Jamba!, a German mobile phone company, who own the license for the Crazy Frog character (including the animation and the sound), distribute the Crazy Frog’s unique sound as a mobile phone ringtone. With a superb promotion along several media (television, internet, radio, and print advertising), Jamba has earned over £14 million from the ringtone, making it the most commercially successful ringtone of all time. Recently, they also created Crazy DJ Frog, a disc jockey version of the Crazy Frog.

On May 23, 2005, Crazy Frog single, titled Axel F, was released, and suddenly reached the number one spot in the UK Singles Chart, outselling the nearest cortender, Coldplay, by three or four copies to one. This Axel F single, made by a German dance duo named Bass Bumpers, is a remix from Harold Faltermeyer’s Axel F song. Later, this dance single become the official song endorsed by Jamster! which actually samples the original sound, while the other songs below created their own samples of the sound.

Click here for the official Crazy Frog – Axel F website.

The next official Crazy Frog single will be “Popcorn“, which has already been premiered on Top of the Pops in the UK. It is a remix of Hot Butter’s original “Popcorn” and it will be released on August 22nd 2005 in the UK. Previously, an album entitled Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits was released on July 25, 2005. You can listen to the sample of the songs from Crazy Hits website.

And that’s all I can say about this frog )

PS: If you want to download Crazy Frog’s movie clip, use Google Hack technique. If you have read my tutorial about getting MP3 from WWW using Google (if you haven’t, read it :p ), you can use the same technique to search Crazy Frog’s movie clip. For example, the following query will search for any Crazy Frog’s movie clip: ?intitle:index.of? “crazy frog” wmv
Note that I limit my search to WMV movie format only. Furthermore, if you want to search for specific movie clip title, like Axel F, just add the title on the query, like this: ?intitle:index.of? “crazy frog” wmv “axel f”