Rick Beato YouTube Stats

@rickbeato · Music · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Rick Beato channel overview

Rick Beato (@rickbeato) is a YouTube channel in the Music niche created in 2006. It has 5.9M subscribers and 2.3B total views across 2.4K videos, an average of 955K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 916K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 979K views. Over the last 12 months, Rick Beato published 41 videos (24% Shorts), and 3 of them (7%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Rick Beato make?

Returbe doesn't have enough recent views to estimate Rick Beato's monthly revenue. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.67 to $3.33, typically $1.5, 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 $1.5K.

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Upload schedule

Rick Beato publishes about 21.7 videos a month. Based on its last 40 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (25% of uploads), usually around 15:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Rick Beato's best outlier videos

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

• Steel Beans plays his song “Stowaway” The one man rock band!3.2M views · Oct 29, 202621.7× typical views
• Steel Beans one man band rock fest!2.2M views · Nov 2, 202614.8× typical views
• Another Reason I F*cking Hate AI3.2M views · Sep 8, 20263.3× typical views
• Josh Homme playing tricks on your audience #queensofthestoneage415K views · Nov 5, 20262.9× typical views
• Did Smoking Kill Rock and Roll? The Nirvana Smoking Controversy2M views · Oct 8, 20262× typical views
• Steel Beans: How The F*ck Does He Do This?2M views · Oct 28, 20262× typical views
• The World Ended In 2012... We Just Didn't Realize It1.9M views · Oct 8, 20261.9× typical views
• Josh Homme: The Architect Of Desert Rock1.7M views · Oct 8, 20261.7× typical views

Latest videos

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

• How Did I Miss This? My Take On Gracie Abrams466K views · Nov 6, 20260.5× typical views
• Bernie Taupin on songwriting with Elton John 152K views · Nov 6, 20261× typical views
• Josh Homme playing tricks on your audience #queensofthestoneage415K views · Nov 5, 20262.9× typical views
• This Didn't Quite Go As I Planned... 481K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• Sheryl Crow on the writing of “Strong Enough” #sherylcrow #guitar135K views · Nov 3, 20260.9× typical views
• Steel Beans one man band rock fest!2.2M views · Nov 2, 202614.8× typical views
• Rob Thomas on Matchbox Twenty becoming the most famous faceless band 215K views · Nov 1, 20261.5× typical views
• Taylor Momsen on working with Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron from Soundgarden101K views · Oct 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Steel Beans plays his song “Stowaway” The one man rock band!3.2M views · Oct 29, 202621.7× typical views
• Steel Beans: How The F*ck Does He Do This?2M views · Oct 28, 20262× typical views

The Music niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.4K videos from 717 channels in this niche. 12.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8K 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 128.8×), SHARP (145K subs, best video 21×), Debates Capital (47K subs, best video 86.4×), Nova Melody (13K subs, best video 271×), everythingye (20K subs, best video 33.6×), Shorts Render (423K subs, best video 16×).

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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 Beato or YouTube.