Which industry is bigger?
 

Adult? Or Music?

I'd be willing to bet they are equal in size.

Last time I read adult industry was doing $800 million a month in the US.

Tobacco was doing about $120 million a month

Im sure its a close call. But I think music is bigger, only because anyone of any age can legaly buy, sell, trade music. Not adult content. its limited to adults only, and beleive me... the teens make a huge $$$ difference.

They are pretty close, maybe music has a little advantage because of what Mikeee said... teens make a big difference

Mikeee is right . Music is bigger! The teen market in Music is HUGE!!

I don't know about the Music Industry, but the Adult Entertainment Industry is pulling in 16 billion a year.

That's more than all 4 major American Sports combined.

On the Net, Adult is BIGGER!!:winkwink:

LOL PhilipMorris only has revenues for $72 Billions per year. And believe me, Tobacco is still their main business...

Haha, my mp3 collection is about 1 gig bigger than my "Work" folder.

Which Industry makes more, Film or Music?
My guess would be film, but I don't know for sure.

Hands down, Film

Film, no doubt.

Yea my guess would be the music industry!!

The music industry obviously.

I think you mistook that figure as a per day figure .. tobacco isn't as big as it is doing 120m a month .. lol


I've heard that all of the adult industry is about the same size as the hollywood industry .. ~8 bil a year.

here's the RIAA's claim about the music industry: http://www.riaa.com/MD-Tracking.cfm
~$40B, them being 1/3rd of that.

take that with a grain of salt tho, they've been known to inflate their numbers a lot.

i'm reading that porn is around $10-15B.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/business/1017866651.php

film is probably bigger than porn(waaay smaller than music) but not by much - the MPAA does an even better job of inflating their value in people's minds.
http://www.mpaa.org/useconomicreview...mic/sld001.htm
a piddly $8.4B in the box office. they make some money from rentals but it isn't clear from their site how much.

again keep in mind, they're also known to inflate their values.

music industry is wayyyyyy larger than the adult.

Without a doubt. Much bigger.

porn

but how many 40 year old do you know purchase cds constantly

And the Music Industry says that MP3 is killing their profits... LYING BASTARDS!!! The music industry made 14 Billion dollars last year, up from 13.2 Billion the year before! (Don't quote me on the numbers, but it's something along those lines)

I'd say the two are pretty damn close though, that's for sure

Who cares ? i do both :Graucho

do you mean 16 billion in total or 16 billion online

gambling....legally about 8billion a year and as much as 5 times that illegally:thumbsup

Music. Definitely... for now at least.

The music biz is a larger beast. In the US alone record sales have hit $5.6 billion at midyear which should bring it to around $11 or $12 billion at years end. That's just in the U.S. which only accounts for 33% of the total global market. You also have to include the publishing revenue and concert & merchandising which should effectively double the final number. That's a lotta cash!

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