I'm proud of you man, i see all the work you've been doing especially this last year. You deserve everything bro, it's only up anyway. And thanks for the motivation :)
I sold my beats as soon as I began producing at age 14-15, I made $1,000 then stopped. I’m 20 now and I’m about to launch my second music business and try again.
@@shikharchauhan2322 of course. I'm 16 and i dont make shit for now but it all comes with dedication. Starting to lock in on this business and make connections, its never too late.
You didn't make no $1,000,000 from selling beats. My beats go way harder than yours and I haven't sold anything in 10 years. Artists ain't buying beats no more.
Inspiring other producers is something that feels kinda special seeing how toxic the producer community has become. Keep doing what you're doing bro, you definitely inspired me!
KXVI what’s up man, my name’s Novmber and I RU-vid produce like yourself. I hit my stride a couple of years ago and managed to hit the 6 figure mark selling beats online. I had to take some time off of music and I’m now trying to rebuild everything from scratch. I just wanted to let you know that people like yourself make this 10x easier and more enjoyable. Thanks for not only the info you share but the motivation you provide. Nothing but the best for you family.
Thanks again for inspiring me bro! I have 2 jobs (16 hours a day cleaning floors, bathrooms). I only make 600 dollars a month. It would be great to make at least 700 dollars a month selling beats, but I know it's impossible for someone who can't even make beats 40 minutes a day... but I always watch your videos and it inspires me to learn more.
Bro if you don’t have much time try making loops and sending them out as long as you make quality loops you’ll get some collabs sent your way while your at work
yea this is tough, if you are that pressed for time, i'd really recommend looking for lil 10-15 minute spaces in your day you can use. spend 10 minutes before work in the car sending loops or dming people, spend your lunch break making midi's on garage band or some shit that you can use later to get ideas going faster. maybe focus on making starters for other loop makers so they can finish them, and you can pump out more ideas than if you were finishing them all yourself. just look for any lil pocket of time you have and maximize the little time you have! wishing you the best
You need to come to America. Out here, you could just a get one decent job instead working yourself down to the bone for so little money. Then you’ll also have more time for creativity.
@@CompletelyBlankPage Did it sound like a joke? I’m just speaking from my own experience. In the U.S., anyone with basic social skills, average health, and a high school diploma … can get a standard factory or warehouse job for $20 an hour. And the 4 day, 10 hour work schedule is conducive to pursuing creative activities, in my opinion. And it’s the same with the 3 day, 12 hour night shift with pay differential: you make more than people working 40 hours a week, and you have 4 off days to make music. What is difficult to understand about this point?
@@h1ph0p10 i think that to some extent that never goes away, you just need to learn to live with it more than defeating it forever. However, the more beats you make the more you will earn and the more consistent you will be with your quality, so you will be more likely to kill that fear if you just keep cooking up despite having the fear of it being ass!! only way out is through!
I’ve subscribed to this channel because of ur honesty and good storytelling. There’s one big message from this video: GRIND HARD ALL THE WAY! Even big producers/artists grind hard when they are on top level of success. That’s why they stay on top.
Ok but what happens if you send the same beat to some artists (or you send the same beat by email to other producers to make 50/50) and there are 2 or more artists that want the same beat? Like I send one beat to 2 producers to make the 50/50 split thing, both of them say they want the beat, I can’t send the same beat to 2 producers right? But if I can’t I should have 100 different beats for every person, like how should I do?
Dope stuff man, I love the Hawaii story :D. Seems like you've grown up a lot since you've done that last video. I guess that's what happens when the IRS is coming for your ass :D I don't see a lot of folks talking about this kinda stuff either, we've been through a similar situation that was pretty scary. Listen to this man and put money aside for taxes people. Congrats on all our success!
I was making beats just for fun but i started selling them online after i discovered ur channel, ur content is super valuable and it helped me a lot. ty❤️
Grinding my butt off to make money on my beats right now! DJ Mustard X Chris Brown X Kid Ink Type beats and now selling House | EDM | Future Bass | Pop beats! Can I send beats or melody loops to producers like you did on BeatStars? Why did you stop selling loops to producers on BeatStars?
@@prodkxvi yes it did, I went from making 3 beats a week to 3 a day some days, I spent less time mixing and mastering and more on beats, now I'm going to try a send loops to them emails
The biggest takeaway from any of this and being a producer is having the patience while you put in all the work. Knowing it will pay off after a long period of time. It’s a marathon.
ITS A GREAT VIDEO MAN. JUST ONE QUESTION, IF I WANT TO START MAKING SAMPLE PACKS WITH NO BRAND ESTABLISHED SHOULD I START MAKING SMALL PACKS WITH UP TO 100 PLUS SOUNDS OR MAKE A BIG SAMPLE PACK WITH OVER 500 PLUS SOUNDS? WHAT WOULD BE THE CORRECT ROUTE?
just simplified it for the title, felt like selling beats and loops online was too long and people wouldn't read through all the way, youtube algorithm's ruthless, not tryna mislead anyone! still made most my money from selling beats
bro thanks for inspiring me to upload loop kits i thought about it for so long then saw p1 of this vid and started , it’s done me so well and connected me w more producers/artists keep being a bright light in the prod community
"Just Live by your means" It's the secret rich people live by and how they stay rich! Money comes and goes and its never permanent and yes "TAXES" Keep up the great work and have a good day!
Been making beats, studying theory, rapping, and this video is superb! Hard to find people around you who do similar, but your channel is real inspiring, and you gotta believe in yourself!
You earn 7 figures, you pay 6 figures in taxes. Government be like : Remember me? You could had never achieved those 7 figures without us, you must pay 6 figures to us or we'll send you to jail, grab your house, car etc.
Thanks for all the gems that you are constantly dropping for free bro. Just restart it my beats sales journey last month and already got 130$. It's quite a good money because I don't live in USA. My goal is to get my channel monetized and get 500$ a month until the end of the year. Let's grind! Gonna come back here to update it. God bless you.
@@nishuboi2009 Aside from the usual SEO optimization thing, and the "choose a type beat niche", it was probably luck I guess. I don't do any ads at all. I did back in the day in previous channels, but then youtube just killed my channel expecting me to put more money on google ads. FB/IG ads are so much better in my opinion, google ads are more like "getting your brand recognize only" you know? Been doing this youtube game for probably almost 10 years now (5 years as a producer) and I think the current algorithm changes are helping a lot, but only new channels. Some things that I found by running this new channel (nothing official, because no ones understand youtube's algo 100%, if they tell you this, they just want to sell you some shit) - It seems like tags are more relevant right now and we actually got back to the 2016ish tags algo for the recommending part of youtube. All my videos are getting a lot of views from the "Up next" section, which means that have at least a couple of the same tags on my videos help youtube knows that my content is actually "concise". You can check for yourself: go to my channel, pick a beat and check the end of it, with autoplay off. You will see that that are a lot of my videos popping in this "up next" section, as well as in the recommended section below the video. You could mimic that by doing something like: every video of yours has "producername, producername type beat, producername beats, type beats" as initial tags. - Thumbnails helps a lot too. Don't expect people clicking on your beats if you have the same yeezy or audemars thumb in every beat that you upload. I think rapper's face or spooky/enigmatic ones are generally better right now. - My worst recommended beat does not have [FREE] in the tile, so now, all my beats has [FREE] in the title. - I don't put links in the description that somehow represents a possible youtube competitor, like tiktok, spotify or other players for obvious reasons. - Try to post at least every other day, until you get in the algo's loop. That's are the things that I remember right now. If I get more, I'll come back here to update it.
i see your point, i've made most of my money selling beats, and i felt like the title was too long and niched down if i said 'selling beats, and loop kits, and getting placements' so i just dumbed it down for simplicity's sake, wasn't meaning to mislead anyone!
The thing is: who tf is spending ANY money on loop kits? Who are these people? Also, this video applies mostly to the USA. Try living in a smaller country and these tips are basically worthless (not taking away any credit from your work or success, I'm glad you made it).
How many producers were you emailing per day for collabs and when did you start to see the initial collab sales go into the thousands ($2k - $3k)? I get anywhere from 1 - 5 collabs a day (channels as big as 150k subscribers and as small as a few hundred) but the sales have been only been a few hundred per month
my collabs were all with people at around like, 10k-100k subs at that beginning part. A lot of the people I ended up working with in the beginning all blew up, so I kinda got in early with them and had a bunch of beats selling with them. I'd day tho I was probably hitting around 100 people a day with loops, and follow up DMing them too whenever it was a fire loop
@@prodkxviI have no idea bout producing but this video was pretty informative! I have a few questions tho. When you collaborate is it usually split 50-50 and where did you find their email addresses? Also, do they buy your loops or collab with you to make something original? Lastly, how do you determine if a loop is fire?
Happy to see how your drive is, steady schedule, dedication, planning videos , scripted , how you want it to be edited , involving people , frustrations and worries.. and the crazy part is, how the light bulb went off when TB talked to you. Gotta strive more
Producers like you have killed the soul in beatmaking. Take me back to the days when music was real 😂 What happened after 2020 bro.. Everyone is a producer and all of them are robots
@@prodkxvi Yeah you just pump out sample packs and content of the same ahh 'Soulful sample type loop". Commercialised and oversaturated 😂Thats soulless. Anyways goodluck on your game of numbers you bot
I can respect a real producer but you and your gang of suburban internet nerd yes-men wannabe bigshots not it. Just go to college and do that MBA to make your family happy. Busy works beats alumni type producahs
Aye sorry I just wanted to clear the air, and apologize for tagging you in my discord loops, and that email I sent a while back to sonix about chasing stem cells to fully heal my shoulder from hurting it in the gym, if theres anything I can do to giveback to u in the future I would. I wont tag u in my stuff anymore if you want, hope I can impress u with my work in discord or offer something more to get more recognition from u in there, i'l email u from here.
Great video but I feel like you missed out some info. When you talk about releasing 7 days limited time kits, how were you promoting them? Just posting about them on RU-vid and IG? Thanks
Hi KXVI, I'd love a video about Facebook and IG ads. You mention you changed your strategy, I'm curious to know your no-nonsense method to create basic campaigns that work. Thanks!
I'm literally here because I made $36 dollars off my music! I know that sounds ridiculous! But I threw a couple shit songs of mine on Spotify several months back and didn't think anything of it at the time. I never once logged in to check on how many times they were streamed, or if they made any sort of revenue etc. Today I randomly decided to check my Tunecore account and lo and behold there's a whopping $36 dollars in my account from my music being streamed! Now, this isn't money to get all excited about, but at the same time, like you, I've spent YEARS AND YEARS of my life literally doing nothing but making music! I've lost so many jobs over the years, so many girlfriends, pushed family away, never went to house parties, clubs, bars, during the PRIME years of my life! All I did was chase my dreams of making it as a musician. With that said.. $36 is still enough to get me excited. It's still enough to make me think.. "What if instead of just two songs that you didn't even take seriously.. what if you uploaded your entire catalogue of 200+ songs you've recorded on". Instead of $36 dollars, perhaps it could've been a few grand? Who knows! I just know that it's got me excited to actually push more of my content on TuneCore so that instead of only a couple of my songs being available, it would be MOST of them? That's why I'm here. Because like you.. I'm nobody special. But I definitely make great music!
i always watch those videos, go in fl studio, do a beat i mostly dont like, dont know what to do, dont really know where to start, and close it. i use it several years now and feel like i need money for plugins cause it sounds bad, i need to learn instruments or stuff like that, before starting. idk
Thanks for sharing all this. I'd love to see you do a full vid on how Beatstars works as a music creator - I haven't figured out that model yet, been in the more classic making records and getting royalties mode.
Thank you bro for this video. Appreciate it. How do we actually get collabs with YT producers? Do they actually charge a fee ? How do you relate with them ? (I’m from Nigeria)
When I first started making beats, I didn’t have the best quality but I was pumping beats out and never made a sale. (Probably because the beats were bad). Now I’m 5 years into producing and haven’t tried selling a beat online since. I decided to lock in with the local artists around me and dedicate my work to them. I can confidently say I have the quality to make sales now but it won’t work like magic. There’s millions of producers with better beats that are grinding harder than me when it comes to marketing their production online and I know that. But do you think it’s a good idea to try to run the funnel strategy again now that I have much more experience making music?
