Rick Astley YouTube Stats

@rickastleyyt · Music · Updated Nov 5, 2026

Rick Astley channel overview

Rick Astley (@rickastleyyt) is a YouTube channel in the Music niche created in 2015. It has 4.6M subscribers and 2.6B total views across 440 videos, an average of 5.9M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 74K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 117K views. Over the last 12 months, Rick Astley published 52 videos (88% Shorts), and 4 of them (8%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Rick Astley make?

Returbe estimates Rick Astley's YouTube ad revenue at $606 – $2K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.8 to $3.98, typically $1.79, 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

Rick Astley publishes about 4.3 videos a month. Based on its last 52 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (29% of uploads), usually around 08:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 4, 2026.

Rick Astley's best outlier videos

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

• This never gets old! #rickastley #nevergonnagiveyouup7.3M views · Apr 21, 2026141.6× typical views
• We had a fantastic time in Cologne last night. Thanks for having us! ♥️🇩🇪610K views · Aug 5, 202611.8× typical views
• Any guesses? 👇 #rickastley #rickastleytour #reflectiontour355K views · Apr 2, 20266.9× typical views
• Rick Astley - Waiting On You (Official Video)579K views · Mar 13, 20265× typical views
• Happy 38 years of Together Forever ❤️ Do you remember when you first heard the song? - Team Rick153K views · Jan 12, 20263× typical views
• How are you spending New Year’s Eve? Never Gonna Stop' on @BBC #RickAstleyRocksNewYearsEve 2024 🥂142K views · Dec 29, 20252.8× typical views
• Who would’ve thought? 🕺110K views · Jan 12, 20262.1× typical views
• Summer shows kicked off this week in Sweden and Denmark!! 🇸🇪🇩🇰98K views · May 27, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

4 of Rick Astley's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• When you’re scared of flying and have to get to Japan somehow… 🥴 #rickastley #autobiography12K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• This version of Never Gonna Give You Up still gets to us 😭 #nevergonnagiveyouup32K views · Nov 3, 20260.6× typical views
• Dippin My Feet just hits different live 🕺 #rickastley #livemusic16K views · Oct 30, 20260.3× typical views
• Hits for decades 🕺 We still have The Best of Me (and the Never Edition!) on repeat ❤️ Team Rick20K views · Oct 27, 20260.4× typical views
• 38 years on, and the music video still hits 🕺 # #rickastley #80smusic54K views · Sep 20, 20261× typical views
• A message from Rick ♥️ #rickastley74K views · Aug 31, 20261.4× typical views
• We had a fantastic time in Cologne last night. Thanks for having us! ♥️🇩🇪610K views · Aug 5, 202611.8× typical views
• 39 years of Never Gonna Give You Up!🕺Next year it’s the big 4-0… how should we celebrate? Team Rick98K views · Jul 27, 20261.9× typical views
• Copenhagen, you were amazing. Tak 🇩🇰♥️ #rickastley #tivoligardens31K views · Jul 27, 20260.6× typical views
• Fly Me To The Moon 🌙 #rickastley72K views · Jul 27, 20261.4× typical views

The Music niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 621 channels in this niche. 12.3% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8.5K 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 132.9×), SHARP (145K subs, best video 21×), Debates Capital (47K subs, best video 87.1×), everythingye (19K subs, best video 33.5×), Star Academy Officiel (382K subs, best video 13.6×), Shorts Render (406K subs, best video 14.1×).

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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 Rick Astley or YouTube.