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JustinGuitar Songs - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 18-min uploads · 1.3M subscribers · started 2007 · ~0.9/week
Est. ad revenue$561–$2K/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 177 most recent of 930 long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit JustinGuitar Songs on YouTube →

In JustinGuitar Songs's own words
Welcome to my Song Channel! :) Here, you'll find full lessons for your favorite songs, covers, and musical experiments. Check out JustinGuitar.com for all your guitar lesson needs - over 1800 free lessons and the Best Beginner Course EVER made. Thanks for supporting JustinGuitar - see y'all around....Based in GB

How does JustinGuitar Songs perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 30% of all views and its biggest is 6.6× the median, so the median upload (96K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

96K
median views
6.6×
top vs median
18%
hit rate (2×+)
30%
views from top 10%

What is JustinGuitar Songs's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "The Chain by Fleetwood Mac | Guitar Lesson - Double Drop D" at 630K views - 6.6× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac | Guitar Lesson - Double Drop D630K
Take Me Home, Country Roads | Easy Guitar Lesson584K
Losing My Religion by R.E.M | Guitar Tutorial525K

Which titles work best for JustinGuitar Songs - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac | Guitar Lesson - Double Drop D630K
Take Me Home, Country Roads | Easy Guitar Lesson584K
Losing My Religion by R.E.M | Guitar Tutorial525K
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin | Easy Guitar Lesson409K
Shallow - Guitar Lesson + Cover | Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper401K
Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel | Guitar Lesson385K
Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan | Easy Guitar Lesson368K
Something by The Beatles | Full Guitar Lesson + Cover366K
Friday I'm In Love by The Cure | Guitar Lesson355K
Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison | Easy Guitar Lesson314K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Shouldn't Matter But It Does by John Mayer | Acoustic Guitar Lesson45K
Devils And Dust by Bruce Springsteen | Drop D Tuning Guitar Lesson45K
Boys Round Here by Blake Shelton | Easy Guitar Lesson45K
No Surprises by Radiohead | Guitar Lesson44K
Unlock Slide Guitar learning "Little Red Rooster" in Open G Tuning!43K
Worried Life Blues Guitar Lesson | 8 Bar Blues Standard43K
Into Temptation by Crowded House | Guitar Lesson43K
Riptide by Vance Joy | Easy Ukulele Tutorial43K
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club | Easy Guitar Lesson42K
From Hank to Hendrix by Neil Young | Guitar Lesson42K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 177 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - JustinGuitar Songs
Has a number7% of videos
-54%
Speaks to "you"10% of videos
-49%
Starts How / Why / What6% of videos
+45%
Uses (brackets)14% of videos
-39%
The title formula for JustinGuitar Songs

Lean on starts how / why / what - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on has a number.

Surprise: has a number costs this channel 54% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does JustinGuitar Songs rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: lesson cover, acoustic lesson, bob dylan, dylan lesson, fleetwood mac, mac lesson, beatles lesson, radiohead lesson. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does JustinGuitar Songs post, and when?

JustinGuitar Songs publishes about 0.9 videos a week, most often on Tue.

Views by day of week
Sun
2
Mon
4
Tue
54
Wed
54
Thu
38
Fri
25
Sat
0

How long are JustinGuitar Songs's videos?

Typical uploads run about 18 minutes. Broken down by length, its 5-10 min videos perform best (155K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
5-10 min
155K
10-20 min
96K
20 min+
82K

How does JustinGuitar Songs compare to other music channels?

At 96K median views, JustinGuitar Songs runs above the typical music channel we track (19K). It is outperforming its niche.

JustinGuitar Songs's estimated YouTube earnings

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, JustinGuitar Songs pulls roughly 372K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $372-$1,486 a month in ad revenue (about $4,458-$17,833 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like JustinGuitar Songs make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 5-10 min format, ship on Tue. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 96K views.

JustinGuitar Songs stats at a glance

Subscribers1.3M
Total views377M
Videos published930
Avg views (of 177 analyzed)123K
Uploads per week0.9
Typical length18 min
On YouTube since2007 (19 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for JustinGuitar Songs, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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