25 Years In The Life Of A Bedroom Producer.

[Magdelayna]

200th post - some hiliarious track distribution revenue stats :

Youtube - 11.4M streams - $8.6K
Youtube 'RED' - 2.2M streams - $12.2K
Spotify - 437K streams - $1.1K
Apple Music - 22K streams - $139
Tiktok - 216M streams - $75 (yes,you read that right!!)

(This is not including my main Youtube channel)

 

[Jetflag]

Tiktok - 216M streams - $75 (yes,you read that right!!)

the CCCP thanks you for your contribution

 

[Magdelayna]

Top Trance producer's Youtube channel total plays...updated August 2026 - im still hanging in there! Not bad for a bedroom producer

Billy Gillies has come from nowhere - thats UK chart success for you haha...


Tiesto 5B
Armin 3.3B
PvD 818M
Above & Beyond 566M
Robert Miles 561M
ATB 545M
Gareth Emery 413M
Cosmic Gate 212M
Markus Schulz 140M
Blank & Jones 113M
Ferry Corsten 109M
Billy Gillies 107M
Giuseppe Ottaviani 75M
Magdelayna 60M
Andrew Rayel 60M
Chicane 53M
Sander van Doorn 48M
Aly & Fila 48M
Craig Connelly 41M
Mauro Picotto 38M
Solarstone 28M
Nifra 27M
Paul Oakenfold 22M
MIKE Push 21M
Orjan Nilsen 19M
Talla 2xLC 14M
Kyau & Albert 12M
Lange 9M

 

[jamescosgrove1980]

200th post - some hiliarious track distribution revenue stats :

Youtube - 11.4M streams - $8.6K
Youtube 'RED' - 2.2M streams - $12.2K
Spotify - 437K streams - $1.1K
Apple Music - 22K streams - $139
Tiktok - 216M streams - $75 (yes,you read that right!!)

(This is not including my main Youtube channel)

these numbers are insane

 

[Magdelayna]

these numbers are insane

The revenue has probably halved in the last 6 months or so....im not really sure why. At the back of my mind i think its something to do with how AI has come into everything....im not sure yet.

 

[Halon]

You deserve it mate

 

[jamescosgrove1980]

The revenue has probably halved in the last 6 months or so....im not really sure why. At the back of my mind i think its something to do with how AI has come into everything....im not sure yet.

It is probably the companies taking even more of a cut.
There are many examples of this in society, its robbery. Uber take so much from its drivers now in the UK, I was talking to one guy the other day and he was getting less than £1 per mile.

Obviousy, this is worse as you spend hours making music to see any payments halved.

 

[Magdelayna]

It is probably the companies taking even more of a cut.
There are many examples of this in society, its robbery. Uber take so much from its drivers now in the UK, I was talking to one guy the other day and he was getting less than £1 per mile.

Obviousy, this is worse as you spend hours making music to see any payments halved.

Believe it or not the different wars around the world in the last few years have effected revenue - e.g. Russia stopped all Youtube revenue being earned from Russian plays after the Ukraine war started. And Russia was my top played nation on my channel haha...

 

[jamescosgrove1980]

Believe it or not the different wars around the world in the last few years have effected revenue - e.g. Russia stopped all Youtube revenue being earned from Russian plays after the Ukraine war started. And Russia was my top played nation on my channel haha...

Intrigued by all this mate, very intrigued.

 

[Magdelayna]

What a Milestone - 20 years ago TODAY i had my FIRST ever release under Magdelayna! It was a track called 'Prolific' and was released on a Scottish Trance label called Aurora Digital. It also came with a brilliant Timefactor remix,which is still one of my favourite build-ups in a Trance track.

 

[jamescosgrove1980]

What would you say your earnings have been through that time from music? I am guessing you also work so have limited time.

 

[Magdelayna]

What would you say your earnings have been through that time from music? I am guessing you also work so have limited time.

Earnings in which time? I didnt really make any revenue until around 2018....yeah i work full time as a printer.

 

[Magdelayna]

Really SAD and TRAGIC news that my main Youtube channel has been HACKED and all my videos are not available to view...iam desperately trying to recover it but someone has took control of my google account and i simply cant get in!!

If anyone has experienced anything similar then help would be appreciated!!

If i cant get it back,then the only option would be to create a brand new channel....

But to lose a near 80K subscriber channel with over 60 million plays is truly heartbreaking

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

Hmmm that looks weird mate.

Bunch of sports-spam-shit is posted on through your account now (?).

Hope they'll fix it for you.

 

[Progrez]

The revenue has probably halved in the last 6 months or so....im not really sure why. At the back of my mind i think its something to do with how AI has come into everything....im not sure yet.

It's youtube shorts and changes in policies by Youtube

 

[Progrez]

Really SAD and TRAGIC news that my main Youtube channel has been HACKED and all my videos are not available to view...iam desperately trying to recover it but someone has took control of my google account and i simply cant get in!!

If anyone has experienced anything similar then help would be appreciated!!

If i cant get it back,then the only option would be to create a brand new channel....

But to lose a near 80K subscriber channel with over 60 million plays is truly heartbreaking

Sign in - Google Accounts

Step 2: Use the YouTube Hacked Channel Assistant​

YouTube provides a dedicated guided flow for hacked channel recovery:

• Have them go to the YouTube Hacked Channel Assistant. This tool guides creators through securing their channel and escalating the issue to the account hijacking team

Step 3: Contacting YouTube Directly​

• Via X (formerly Twitter) @TeamYouTube:
  If your friend cannot sign in or access standard support forms, reaching out to @TeamYouTube on X is often the fastest way to get human assistance. They can tweet at them explaining that their channel was compromised. TeamYouTube can send a direct message (DM) with a specialized link to the Account Hijacking Form.
• Via YouTube Creator Support (if in YPP):
  If their channel is part of the YouTube Partner Program, they can contact Creator Support directly via email or chat from the Help Center once partial access to the account is restored.
• If the channel was terminated/suspended due to hacker activity:
  Once your friend regains control of their primary Google Account, they can submit the Channel Termination Appeal Form explaining that the policy violations were caused by unauthorized access.

Try this email addresses this is from personal youtube account which I recovered my Progrez account. I spoke to a guy named Reinheart on here who works at google.
yt-partner-support@google.com

 

[Magdelayna]

Hmmm that looks weird mate.

Bunch of sports-spam-shit is posted on through your account now (?).

Hope they'll fix it for you.

Im so mad at myself mate - years and years of avoiding scam emails and the other night i clicked into this copyright claim by the Avex label,it went to their official site so it thought it was legit,and then boom - theyve got into my google account,changed my password and the phone number...it was a clever Phishing scam. Ive sent a 'hijack' form off to Google,so il see what happens - but im not hopeful. This happens all the time it seems...

 

[Magdelayna]

Sign in - Google Accounts

Step 2: Use the YouTube Hacked Channel Assistant​

YouTube provides a dedicated guided flow for hacked channel recovery:

• Have them go to the YouTube Hacked Channel Assistant. This tool guides creators through securing their channel and escalating the issue to the account hijacking team

Step 3: Contacting YouTube Directly​

• Via X (formerly Twitter) @TeamYouTube:
  If your friend cannot sign in or access standard support forms, reaching out to @TeamYouTube on X is often the fastest way to get human assistance. They can tweet at them explaining that their channel was compromised. TeamYouTube can send a direct message (DM) with a specialized link to the Account Hijacking Form.
• Via YouTube Creator Support (if in YPP):
  If their channel is part of the YouTube Partner Program, they can contact Creator Support directly via email or chat from the Help Center once partial access to the account is restored.
• If the channel was terminated/suspended due to hacker activity:
  Once your friend regains control of their primary Google Account, they can submit the Channel Termination Appeal Form explaining that the policy violations were caused by unauthorized access.

Try this email addresses this is from personal youtube account which I recovered my Progrez account. I spoke to a guy named Reinheart on here who works at google.
yt-partner-support@google.com

Yeah,ive done all this - im talking to the TeamYoutube people now and ive also filled a 'Hijack' form out....i had 1 hour sleep the other night trying to get it back...i cant believe how easy this is done and theres no other way you can PROVE you own the channel and the Google account!!

 

[trancefan2020]

200th post - some hiliarious track distribution revenue stats :

Youtube - 11.4M streams - $8.6K
Youtube 'RED' - 2.2M streams - $12.2K
Spotify - 437K streams - $1.1K
Apple Music - 22K streams - $139
Tiktok - 216M streams - $75 (yes,you read that right!!)

(This is not including my main Youtube channel)

TikTok didn't pay artists per video view at all. It paid a flat micro-sync fee (typically $0.015 to $0.03) per new video created using the sound, regardless of how many views those videos got. If 2,500 people made videos with the track and two of those clips went mega-viral for 216 million views, the artist got paid ~$75 for the 2,500 creations while the analytics dashboard flexed 216M "streams." (Even after TikTok shifted toward qualified view-based royalties in late 2024, payouts hover around $7 to $13 per million qualified streams , still up to 50x lower than Spotify.)

Google rebranded YouTube Red to YouTube Premium / YouTube Music back in 2018, so seeing YouTube RED is a classic tell of a legacy distributor royalty schema (like DistroKid's older accounting labels). Because every single play in that bucket comes from a paying subscriber rather than an ad-supported viewer, 2.2M Premium streams paid 42% more ($12.2K) than 11.4M regular YouTube views ($8.6K). One YouTube Red play in this batch was worth 15,971 TikTok plays.

Apple Music beats every other platform on a per-stream basis paying 2.5x more per play than Spotify ($0.00252). Spotify's blended average gets dragged down by its ad-supported free tier and lower-ARPU regional pricing, whereas Apple Music is 100% paid subscriptions.

 

[Jetflag]

Really SAD and TRAGIC news that my main Youtube channel has been HACKED and all my videos are not available to view...iam desperately trying to recover it but someone has took control of my google account and i simply cant get in!!

If anyone has experienced anything similar then help would be appreciated!!

If i cant get it back,then the only option would be to create a brand new channel....

But to lose a near 80K subscriber channel with over 60 million plays is truly heartbreaking

holy f dude