Pete Cottrell YouTube Stats

@peteplaysmusic · Music · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Pete Cottrell channel overview

Pete Cottrell (@peteplaysmusic) is a YouTube channel in the Music niche created in 2012. It has 260K subscribers and 47M total views across 443 videos, an average of 105K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 45K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 23K views. Over the last 12 months, Pete Cottrell published 52 videos (73% Shorts), and 8 of them (15%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Pete Cottrell gained 0 subscribers and 110K views, about 9.1K views a day.

How much does Pete Cottrell make?

Returbe estimates Pete Cottrell's YouTube ad revenue at $70 – $339 per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.24 to $1.16, typically $0.53, 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 $530.

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

Pete Cottrell publishes about 3.3 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (33% of uploads), usually around 16:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Pete Cottrell's best outlier videos

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

• WHAT MAKES GOJIRA, SOUND LIKE GOJIRA? 🐋186K views · Jun 18, 20269× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE…176K views · Sep 8, 20268.5× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE,,, (PART 2)148K views · Sep 15, 20267.2× typical views
• 1 Riff 20 Bands - Seek & Destroy133K views · Sep 2, 20265.9× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE… (Part 4)102K views · Oct 12, 20265× typical views
• Why Do Guitarists Secretly Love Load & Reload?108K views · Jul 27, 20264.8× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE… (PART 3)86K views · Sep 22, 20264.2× typical views
• WHAT IF MEGADETH SOUNDED LIKE… (PART2)67K views · Mar 7, 20263.3× typical views

Latest videos

9 of Pete Cottrell's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Jason Richardson Needs To Be STOPPED!18K views · Oct 31, 20260.8× typical views
• THEY COOKED WITH THIS5.5K views · Oct 27, 20260.3× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE… (Part 4)102K views · Oct 12, 20265× typical views
• HOW TO SOUND LIKE METALLICA10K views · Oct 5, 20260.5× typical views
• METAL… ON A HOLLOWBODY?3.2K views · Sep 30, 20260.2× typical views
• Can You Play Metal On A Hollowbody?21K views · Sep 29, 20260.9× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE… (PART 3)86K views · Sep 22, 20264.2× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE,,, (PART 2)148K views · Sep 15, 20267.2× typical views
• WHAT IF SEEK & DESTROY SOUNDED LIKE…176K views · Sep 8, 20268.5× typical views
• 1 Riff 20 Bands - Seek & Destroy133K views · Sep 2, 20265.9× 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 Pete Cottrell or YouTube.