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Ukulele Tricks - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 9-min uploads · 142K subscribers · started 2010 · ~0.1/week
Est. ad revenue$14–$55/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 67 most recent of 133 long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit Ukulele Tricks on YouTube →

In Ukulele Tricks's own words
Ukulele Tricks helps you become a better ukulele player with step-by-step ukulele lessons. Learn how to play the ukulele, discover new songs, and confidently play your instrument.Based in US

How many views does Ukulele Tricks actually get?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 77% of all views and its biggest is 257.1× the median, so the median upload (21K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

21K
median views
257.1×
top vs median
40%
hit rate (2×+)
77%
views from top 10%

What is Ukulele Tricks's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Why Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Ukulele Hit Is Magic" at 5.4M views - 257.1× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Why Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Ukulele Hit Is Magic5.4M
5 Effective Strumming Patterns for Beginners [Ukulele Lesson]3.5M
How to Play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on Ukulele1.0M

Which titles work best for Ukulele Tricks - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
Why Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Ukulele Hit Is Magic5.4M
5 Effective Strumming Patterns for Beginners [Ukulele Lesson]3.5M
How to Play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on Ukulele1.0M
11 Must-Know Ukulele Chords for Beginners992K
10 Ukulele Chords Every Complete Beginner Needs to Know855K
Ukulele Lesson: Fingerpicking Blues Pattern #1845K
Ukulele Fingerpicking Lesson: How to Play "Hallelujah"662K
How to Fingerpick on Ukulele (Fingerpicking Technique)496K
"Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley (Ukulele Cover)434K
Fingerpicking "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on Ukulele379K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Play Your First Blues Lick on Ukulele & Begin to Solo | Blues Week Part 3 of 410K
5 Different Ways to Play a C Major Chord Across the Ukulele Fretboard10K
Strum & Fingerpick This Improvised Moody-Sounding Chord Melody Vamp on Ukulele10K
3 Tricky Ukulele Chords You Can Cheat9K
"MILLION REASONS" BY LADY GAGA BARITONE UKULELE COVER & PLAY-ALONG9K
5 Beginner Ukulele Mistakes to Avoid8K
1 Major Scale Pattern to Play Ukulele Melodies7K
"drivers license" ukulele solo6K
What My Students Have to Say About Learning to Fingerpick #Ukulele With Me5K
3 Ukulele Exercises to Improve Your Dexterity5K

The words that win for Ukulele Tricks

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

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 67 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 - Ukulele Tricks
Starts How / Why / What16% of videos
+132%
Speaks to "you"19% of videos
-50%
An ALL-CAPS word9% of videos
-23%
The title formula for Ukulele Tricks

Lean on starts how / why / what - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on speaks to "you".

Surprise: speaks to "you" costs this channel 50% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Ukulele Tricks rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: strumming patterns, patterns beginners, beginners lesson, chords beginners, lesson play, lesson fingerpicking, fingerpicking blues, blues pattern. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Ukulele Tricks post, and when?

Ukulele Tricks publishes about 0.1 videos a week, most often on Sat.

Views by day of week
Sun
7
Mon
11
Tue
11
Wed
3
Thu
5
Fri
14
Sat
16

How long are Ukulele Tricks's videos?

Typical uploads run about 9 minutes. Broken down by length, its under 5 min videos perform best (44K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
under 5 min
44K
5-10 min
28K
10-20 min
17K

How does Ukulele Tricks compare to other music channels?

At 21K median views, Ukulele Tricks runs above the typical music channel we track (19K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much does Ukulele Tricks 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, Ukulele Tricks pulls roughly 9K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $9-$36 a month in ad revenue (about $108-$433 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 Ukulele Tricks make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the under 5 min format, ship on Sat, and build titles around its proven words (fingerpicking, lesson, beginners). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 21K views.

Ukulele Tricks stats at a glance

Subscribers142K
Total views20M
Videos published133
Avg views (of 67 analyzed)256K
Uploads per week0.1
Typical length9 min
On YouTube since2010 (16 yrs)

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