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The Ukulele Teacher - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 8-min uploads · 1.4M subscribers · started 2011 · ~0.8/week
Est. ad revenue$31–$125/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 166 most recent of 1K long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit The Ukulele Teacher on YouTube →

In The Ukulele Teacher's own words
The best FREE ukulele lessons anywhere on the web. Song requests always welcome. See my Patreon for songsheets and bonus content. Ukulele Tales podcast every Wednesday. to get 10% discount on ANY Kala ukulele!Based in US

How many views does The Ukulele Teacher actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 68% of all views and its biggest is 116× the median, so the median upload (6K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

6K
median views
116×
top vs median
27%
hit rate (2×+)
68%
views from top 10%

What is The Ukulele Teacher's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "The FIRST song you should learn on the ukulele! (You Are My Sunshine - Easy Tutorial)" at 696K views - 116× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
The FIRST song you should learn on the ukulele! (You Are My Sunshine - Easy Tutorial)696K
Toxic - BoyWithUke - EASY UKULELE TUTORIAL442K
How to play 7 Kids song on the ukulele with just three EASY chords!176K

Which titles work best for The Ukulele Teacher - 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 FIRST song you should learn on the ukulele! (You Are My Sunshine - Easy Tutorial)696K
Toxic - BoyWithUke - EASY UKULELE TUTORIAL442K
How to play 7 Kids song on the ukulele with just three EASY chords!176K
RAPSTAR - POLO G *UKULELE TUTORIAL*159K
Your FIRST ukulele lesson - a complete beginners guide! Learn TEN songs!132K
BoyWithUke - Two Moons (EASY UKULELE TUTORIAL)120K
Master of Puppets - Metallica (UKULELE TUTORIAL)111K
HOW TO RESTRING A UKULELE (it's easy!)87K
METALLICA - ENTER SANDMAN - AWESOME UKULELE TUTORIAL!80K
How to play Seven Nation Army - White Stripes *EASY UKULELE TUTORIAL*58K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
I PLAYED ON THE NEW JAMES HILL ALBUM - UKE HEADS!2K
I WAS READY TO WALK AWAY FROM YOUTUBE FOR GOOD2K
Guitar Lesson 4: Seventh Chords! (Taylor Swift, The Monkees, Fight Song, Johnny B. Goode)2K
UKULELE vs. ORCHESTRA! (Interview with James Hill & Anne Janelle)2K
CRAVE YOU - FLIGHT FACILITIES (Easy Ukulele Tutorial!)2K
A UKULELE SET-UP SHOULD BE FREE - MIM SPILLS THE TEA!2K
WHY I TOOK MY MUSIC OFF SPOTIFY2K
"I always keep a ukulele in the car in case Stevie Wonder wants to jam! - UkuLenny Interview2K
HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU PRACTICE?2K
"I WENT INTO LABOR AT A UKULELE FESTIVAL!" - Bernadette Teaches Music aka Plazi Podcast Interview1K

The words that win for The Ukulele Teacher

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: tutorial.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 166 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 - The Ukulele Teacher
Has a number11% of videos
-34%
An ALL-CAPS word79% of videos
-31%
The title formula for The Ukulele Teacher

Its biggest drag is has a number - worth avoiding.

Surprise: has a number costs this channel 34% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does The Ukulele Teacher rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: sunshine tutorial, boywithuke tutorial, ten songs, beginners guide, theme tutorial, fingerpicking tutorial, theme fingerpicking, twenty pilots. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does The Ukulele Teacher post, and when?

The Ukulele Teacher publishes about 0.8 videos a week, most often on Wed.

Views by day of week
Sun
0
Mon
22
Tue
65
Wed
68
Thu
9
Fri
2
Sat
0

How long are The Ukulele Teacher's videos?

Typical uploads run about 8 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (9K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5 min
9K
10-20 min
9K
5-10 min
8K
20 min+
1K

How does The Ukulele Teacher compare to other music channels?

At 6K median views, The Ukulele Teacher sits below the typical music channel we track (19K) - there is headroom.

How much does The Ukulele Teacher make? (estimated)

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, The Ukulele Teacher pulls roughly 21K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $21-$83 a month in ad revenue (about $248-$991 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 The Ukulele Teacher make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Wed, and build titles around its proven words (tutorial). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 6K views.

The Ukulele Teacher stats at a glance

Subscribers1.4M
Total views187M
Videos published1K
Avg views (of 166 analyzed)21K
Uploads per week0.8
Typical length8 min
On YouTube since2011 (15 yrs)

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

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