Pointless and somewhat dubious statistics, anyone? Well, here we go. The average person in the UK will spend about £21,000 on music during their lifetime, or at least that's what a new survey commissioned by Prudential and conducted by research firm TNS reckons, and who are we to argue?
That figure includes what we spend on hifi equipment, music media and concert going as well on buying recorded music. It is based on the finding that of the 1188 people TNS surveyed, the average person owns £891 worth of hifi equipment and spends about £425 a year on CDs, gigs and music magazines.
Obviously there was quite some variation in different people's music spending, with researchers reckoning that a real music enthusiast will shell out something closer to £44,000 on music in their lifetime. Likewise some people spent a lot less, although researchers said that some who initially said they spent nothing on music discovered they actually had around £250 of music related spending each year.
Commenting on the survey, Prudential Director Of Marketing Roger Ramsden told reporters: "Most people would describe themselves as a music fan of some sort or another, but what is really amazing is just how much money people find themselves spending on it."