Apple Music YouTube Stats

@applemusic · Music · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Apple Music channel overview

Apple Music (@applemusic) is a YouTube channel in the Music niche created in 2013. It has 1.7M subscribers and 482M total views across 1.9K videos, an average of 252K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 110K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 41K views. Over the last 12 months, Apple Music published 55 videos (11% Shorts), and 12 of them (22%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 11 days, Apple Music gained 10K subscribers and 4.3M views, about 394K views a day.

How much does Apple Music make?

Returbe estimates Apple Music's YouTube ad revenue at $9.5K – $48K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.79 to $3.95, typically $1.78, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $1.8K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Apple Music publishes about 17.4 videos a month. Based on its last 54 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (24% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

Apple Music's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Apple Music's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Apple Music. Made by Sound: Behind the new brand identity985K views · Oct 21, 202623.8× typical views
• VERZUZ RECAP: Donell Jones, Joe, 50 Cent, Swizz Beatz & More | Rap Life Review668K views · Aug 21, 202616.1× typical views
• Erykah Badu and The Alchemist: Naming the New Album, Past Tour, and Collaboration | The Ebro Show630K views · Aug 31, 202615.2× typical views
• Say Hello to Apple Music Hall523K views · Sep 22, 202612.6× typical views
• Miley Remembers Dolly Parton52K views · Sep 17, 202610.5× typical views
• ADÉLA: The PRIMA Interview | Zane Lowe Interview424K views · Sep 14, 202610.2× typical views
• Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan: “expectations”, Music Video & Daisy Chains | Zane Lowe Interview333K views · Oct 16, 20268× typical views
• Social Distortion: "Tonight" (Apple Music Sessions) | Travis Mills Show286K views · Oct 7, 20266.9× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Apple Music's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• JAŸ-Z Super Bowl Cameos? Ye Breaks Concert Record, 2026 Classics in the Making | Rap Life Review16K views · Nov 4, 20260.4× typical views
• DIIV: ZIRP! and Collaborating with A.G. Cook | Zane Lowe Interview15K views · Nov 3, 20260.4× typical views
• Medium Build: "In My Gut" (Apple Music Sessions) | Zane Lowe Show7.6K views · Nov 3, 20260.2× typical views
• JAŸ-Z headlines #AppleMusicHalftime | Apple Music SBLXI Halftime Show117K views · Oct 27, 20262.8× typical views
• VERZUZ RECAP: Carl Thomas, Case, Estelle, Too $hort, RL, & More | Rap Life Review30K views · Oct 24, 20260.7× typical views
• Peanut Butter Wolf: On 30 Year Anniversary and Making Music Today | Zane Lowe Interview8K views · Oct 23, 20260.2× typical views
• Dylan Gossett: "End of Beginning" (Apple Music Sessions) | Apple Music28K views · Oct 22, 20260.7× typical views
• Queens of the Stone Age: Perfecth and Writing About Love | Zane Lowe Interview118K views · Oct 22, 20262.8× typical views
• Discussing Doechii, Carl Thomas VERZUZ Case & Germany's Music Scene | Rap Life Review21K views · Oct 21, 20260.5× typical views
• Apple Music. Made by Sound: Behind the new brand identity985K views · Oct 21, 202623.8× typical views

The Music niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.7K videos from 634 channels in this niche. 11.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.3K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $0.8 to $4.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Jennie bee.. (92K subs, best video 133.4×), SHARP (145K subs, best video 21×), Debates Capital (47K subs, best video 76.2×), everythingye (20K subs, best video 33.5×), Shorts Render (416K subs, best video 15.2×), Star Academy Officiel (382K subs, best video 11.1×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Apple Music or YouTube.