How To Turn Your Music Channel into a Career

Peter Hollens has almost 2 million YouTube subscribers. He's a full-time YouTube creator who makes music videos and shares some of his best, pro tips for turning your YouTube channel into your career as a musician. Growing a music channel on YouTube follows a lot of the same growth principles as growing any other YouTube channel. Peter helps us understand what it takes to grow on YouTube as a musician.

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[adamivy]

This is one of the most inspiring videos I've seen in ages.

[newpianotutorials]

Gonna have to watch this video a hundred times ... thanks so much !!!

[HugoBravoMusic]

Thank you SO MUCH Tim and Peter. It can be a little hard to find videos that are helpful specifically for musicians. Really appreciate the tips and advice🙂🙌🏻

[MikeMoonnight]

Awesome video 🔥 Thank You Peter and Tim 💚

[DanVasc]

I'm a musician on YT and this is SO valuable info. A lot of those things I'm already doing, so it's awesome to receive confirmation that I'm on the right path. Thank you Tim and Peter!

[Poeina]

I was happy that half the video wasn’t just asking people to subscribe and maybe you’ll tell me something maybe not. I actually learned a couple things. Thank you!

[MissKrystlelive]

As someone who does music career tip videos like this, I can appreciate the work that goes into making such a great advice video. Good luck with everything!!

[_ConnorEdwardsMusic]

I just set up my Patreon page in about 30 minutes thanks to this video. Didn't even really know it existed, or what it was for. Super cool, and thanks for the suggestion!

[AnthonyLazaroMusic]

Wow, that's interesting. Someone told me never to talk at the end of my covers because that would preclude my videos from being incorporated in playlists. I guess I have to change my game :) Thanks so much, guys !

[youngminyou]

I just got Hollens Academy and can’t wait to bring my music career to the next level! Love you both and thanks for this amazing content!

[JensLarsen]

All solid advice! I do most of this as well and it works! 🙂

[DodaGarcia]

As someone who never really had the time and availability to focus on his music right up until I turned 34, this was soooo inspirational! It was also great to hear I’m already doing several things right – while traction on YouTube has been slow, I’m getting a lot of shares on Facebook and a lot of comments from fans which I make sure to always reply to.

Thank you for this video!

[wanniemusic]

Considering creating a music YT channel to fulfill my dreams as a musician. I am 30 years old now and just had a baby. This is giving me hope that I still have a chance.
Thank you so much!!!

[guerschonauguste]

Man this is so helpful. Person first Musician second!!!
It makes so much sense!!!

[dadsonraj]

Can you please tell about copyrights issue? Especially when we do music, I heard lot of challenges may be there... if i reproduce a song or cover, will I face problem ? Is it ok if i make my own music and using same chord progressions of other songs?

[VLoveTarot]

We can learn a lot from Peter. Thanks again for chopping this up into another valuable video!!

[SadSynth]

Thank you so SO much you guys. A lot of YouTube advice is difficult to apply as a music channel. This was incredibly helpful. Definitely going to start talking at the end of my videos!

[kevinjyrwa]

Wow, it's all thanks to my wife, she made me watch this and she's like"watch it and I will ask you questions whether you've watched it or not" and I'm glad I did, and thank you guys for making it simple, adding value to what you do and making people feel valued!!thanks

[StuffedBox]

"You are a person first", solid advice. Creating a relationship with your audience is key, thanks for the reminder.

[SynnUnsworth]

love seeing the musicians on here.... definitely needed to hear some of those tips too. thankfully a lot of thing's I've noticed I need to do more myself (talking at the end of the video being a huge one)