They say a porn star is only as popular as the movies that she sells, so just who are the “stars” that sell the most movies? Well, it’s different for every platform, but AEBN recently released their list of top porn stars ranked by sales volume and the results are quite interesting.

Just who is AEBN? Well, Since 1999, AEBN (Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network) has offered adult video on demand to consumers through a worldwide network of Affiliate Partners. AEBN maintains distribution rights through thousands of Content Partners, ensuring fans access to a vast library of full-length adult titles, offering straight, gay, fetish, and niche content.

What’s interesting about this data, at least to me is how it compares to the awards process. Let’s just look at the top five girls. These are the ones who sell by far the most movies. Yet the distribution of the awards they have won is astronomically disproportionate. This doesn’t mean that the award shows are rigged. But I want to share this information with you for a reason. I want you to fully understand how it all works.

At the Adult Industry Awards website I track data on every award ever won at all the major adult industry award shows and that includes the AVN Awards, The XBIZ Awards, The XRCO Awards, The Pornhub Awards, The Fleshbot Awards, and the Nightmoves Awards.

• Angela White has won 67 awards.
• Abella Danger has won 28 awards.
• Elsa Jean has won 6 awards.
• Krissy Lynn has won 1 award.
• April Olsen has won 1 award.

Why hasn’t Elsa Jean won more awards if fans are buying her movies?

Keep in mind, these are the movies people are buying – not watching for free online. This means that if you make a movie, fans actually go out there and spend their money to see it. The rankings above are based on actual sales figures. That means the data is valuable because it means these girls have starred in movies that fans are willing to pay to see.

You know what this data shows us? It pays to advertise.

Awards shows, like the porn production industry, is a business. That means they too have to make a profit and they do that by having advertisers. The more advertisers they have, the more money the award show makes.

For some reason, people think that to get an award you need to star in a great movie. That’s not true in porn or Hollywood. Have you ever actually watched an Oscar-nominated movie? The process of getting nominated for a mainstream award is EXTREMELY expensive, millions in some cases.

So please stop beating yourself up for not winning an award. There’s a whole process to it and a lot of that process is knowing how to play the “awards game”.

You don’t have to star in the best movie ever made to get an award nomination. Anyone can get that nomination if you know how it works. If you’re interested in learning more about the awards process and what you can do (in most cases for free) to get nominated for an adult industry award be sure and check out my guide by clicking here.

But getting nominated and winning is very different. If you want to win an award, you need to become an advertiser, and that costs money. That’s just how it works. Now you don’t have to advertise yourself. You just have to star in a movie for a company that does pay to advertise with the big awards shows like AVN and XBIZ.

So if you want to know who pays to advertise at these sites to try and get work with them just visit the websites like avn.com and xbiz.com and look at their banners. Or read their magazines.

Each month both AVN and XBIZ release a magazine. Those companies who have full-page ads are the big advertisers — and if a company has multiple full-page ads, then they are a big advertiser and that means they are more likely to win. Those are the companies you want to try and work with if winning an award is important to you.

Don’t hate the game, just learn how to play it.