--- title: 'How to Make Money with AI Music' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=lhhb1D-8yV4' video_id: 'lhhb1D-8yV4' date: 2026-08-05 duration_sec: 899 --- # How to Make Money with AI Music > Source: [How to Make Money with AI Music](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lhhb1D-8yV4) ## Summary This video demonstrates how to create an AI music channel on YouTube, showcasing the Artlist platform's capabilities for generating lyrical, instrumental, and image-to-music tracks. It covers the process of generating music, creating an AI avatar for monetization, and various revenue streams such as YouTube monetization, Spotify royalties, and music licensing. ### Key Points - **Success Examples** [00:02] — Channels like one with 13,000 subscribers in 22 videos and another with 90,000 subscribers in 5 months show the potential of AI music channels. - **Artlist AI Toolkit** [00:41] — Use Artlist's AI Toolkit, specifically the Ira 3 Pro model, to generate up to 3 minutes of studio-quality, non-copyrighted music for commercial use. - **Choose Your Niche** [01:20] — Decide on a music category (e.g., ambient, classical covers) to target a specific audience and build brand value; mixing categories hinders growth. - **Generating Lyrical Music** [02:03] — Describe the desired song (e.g., 'melodic song in French with female vocals about deep love loss') and Artlist auto-generates lyrics and music. - **Custom Lyrics** [05:28] — You can input your own lyrics in the prompt area; Artlist will generate music to match, with options to adjust mood and theme. - **Image to Music** [08:16] — Upload an image and Artlist generates music and lyrics inspired by the image's mood, as demonstrated with a castle image producing poetic lyrics. - **Generating Ambient Music** [10:22] — For ambient tracks, select 'instrumental' and describe the desired mood; variations in prompt yield new professional-level music. - **Monetization Requirements** [12:03] — AI music is monetizable, but to avoid 'inauthentic content' policies, add AI visuals or an AI avatar; example: Mila Sophia channel uses a consistent AI avatar. - **Creating an AI Avatar** [12:42] — Generate a character image using Artlist's Nano Banana Pro, then use video generation models to animate it singing, using a reference video. - **Revenue Streams** [13:44] — Besides YouTube, upload to Spotify, share Patreon links, license viral music, create beats for other creators (like NCS), or sell music to documentary/film creators. ### Conclusion AI music channels offer a viable path to monetization on YouTube and beyond, provided you add visual elements to satisfy content policies. The key is to choose a niche, leverage tools like Artlist, and diversify income streams. ## Transcript gained 13,000 subscribers in just 22 videos. And the channel was started only 8 months ago. And with the help of this channel, this creator has more than 500 active users on Spotify. And similarly, this channel was also started just 5 months ago and currently it has around 90,000 subscribers and there are many such channels on YouTube. These are all music channels created with the help of AI. And in today's how you can start your own AI music channel and go viral. many ways of earning in this business model which I will tell you in the end. But before that let us learn how to make AI music. Now to start a music channel, first of all you need to have an AI that can generate music. official website of Artist from the link given in the description. After which you have to select music here inside AI Toolkit. And then here you have to select Ira 3 Pro. This is the most advanced AI music generator till date, in which you can generate music up to 3 minutes. That too with studio level quality. Either the artist will write the lyrics for you or you not want to make a lyrical video then you can also generate instrumentals here. Can you please select it? You can select even mode. You can select everything like tempo, theme and get your music generated. This music will be non-copyrighted which you can also use for commercial use. Now what are these tools? How to will teach you this further. But before that, you need to understand what kind of AI music channel you want to many categories exist. Like Fallen King you can either upload just ambient music or or make a classical version of an English song like Made in Indian Classic. The audience is ready to listen to everything. Therefore, you first have to decide which category of audience you want to target. Because if you upload music from different categories on the same channel, it will be difficult for you to grow. And even your brand value will music taste. Because now you don't have to worry about who will sing it? All the work will be done on the artist. To explain it to you better, I will also generate and show you all types of music here. So the first type of music that we are going to generate is lyrical music which has some lyrics in it. But we will not write those lyrics. So for this describe in this area what kind of song you want. Like here I wrote that I want a melodic song in French with female vocals and a little piano and the song is about deep love loss and loneliness. Now you about deep love loss and loneliness. Now you so that Artlist automatically generates a lyric as per your requirement. And then you can turn on Artly sound from here so that your song gets polished by Artlist. And then here in John you can select anything. You have a lot of options available here. I will under mode, I will select sad mode. After which you can select in the theme want the music for. Like it has to be put in an ad or in a documentary or in a film. Let me select the movie here. from here. Since this is going to be a sad song, I will you will have your music ready in a few seconds. You can see all the details of your music by clicking on the toggle down option here. what the new model of Ira has generated. [singing voice] duya [music] [ music] [singing voice] [singing voice][music] [singing voice] [music] [singing voice] [music] [singing voice] bo [music][singing voice] [music] [singing voice] [music] come do [music] kya [singing voice] ho [ music][singing voice] [music] [ o [singing voice] like I was at a concert and a real singer was singing. But this song was created by Artlist. What if you want to generate a song with your own lyrics ? It is very simple. You have to go back to the app area and here you have to give a simple prompt as to what type of music you want. After which you have to area, you will have space to write your lyrics. This time instead of arty sound I will keep it on default and again I will n't like your lyrics, you even generate them from Totally Zero. But right now my lyrics are okay. So I will simply run this pro. And within a few seconds I had a result like this. We Between Them [Music] Two Desks Meet Somerset [Song voice] [Song voice] [Music] Just Passing [Music] Shadows [Music] In Heart Like Ray [Song voice] To You Left [Music] Banij The Ribbons [Music] Samj Like Aaveli Song voice] Meen [Music] Class Room Time Meli [Music] [Song voice] Move I don't know I literally enjoyed it. If a school thriller movie was being made, this But if you are next feature will blow your mind. This is the feature of Image to Music. This can also get music generated in Artlist according to the mood of the image. For this you just have to upload an image here. After which I put the lyrics on auto. I also keep the generate on auto. And I set all the other features to auto as well. Just to see After which you have a small question here. Explaining what the image makes you feel. After which if I feel. After which if I run the prt, I get a result like this. The Rust [Singing voice][Music] Is Heavy on My Chest Among the Velvet of the Rest a Thousand [Singing voice][Music] Bright and Red a Crown of [Singing voice] There's for One Long the Castle [Singing voice][Music] The Spire Is Turning Gold a Story Spire Is Turning Gold a Story That Will Stay The [Singing voice] Beauty and the [Music] Soul Fade to the Quiet of the Crush [Singing voice] In This Silence I Have [Music] Free L L [Singing voice] I don't know if not but the lyrics of this entire musical were inspired by our images. Like iron armour is said here in a very poetic way, rust is heavy on my chest. The surrounding red flowers are also covered in this line. And similar sunsets have also been mentioned here. Can you imagine? By generating lyrics from just one image, song ready that is so beautiful. If I could describe the image so well, my English self would be very happy today. But anyways these were just lyrical music that we have generated till now. generate ambient music as well. World Fantasy is a movie channel according to the fantasy world theme and you can see the views of this channel yourself. So now let us see how to generate this kind of music. All you have to do is describing that you want ambient music. After which you have to select the instrumental here. I will adjust all other features to auto. After which, if I run this program, we will have a result like this. You can generate new ambient music every time by making small variations in the prompt. And even by changing the theme, mood etc., you will have a lot of variations which will look new every time and will be of professional level every time. know all the features of generating music. But I am sure there will still be a question in your mind whether its music gets monetized or not. And how can we earn from music ? So let's talk about this in detail. music is monetized or not? So the answer is yes, music is monetized. you will have to do one more thing. Otherwise your content will fall under these authentic content policies. It doesn't matter, you can get any kind of music generated. If you use AI videos along with music or do any kind getting monetized will be very high. Like Mila Sophia channel, which has created its own AI avatar and the same avatar also sings and there are shows inside all the other videos due to which this channel is also monetized. Now This work will also be done on the art list. First of all you will have to generate your own online character. For which you can go to the image section from here and use the Nano Banana Pro model. I have written a classic woman's print using Chat GPT. So I will paste that here. And run this prompt. After a few seconds, I had a result like this. So download it. After which you have to go to the video section below. Where you will find all the video generation models of Clink. Adlist has Using which you can copy the motion of any video into your character. So first of all I will upload the image of my avatar here. After which you have to upload an emotional video here as a reference video. I downloaded a video from Instagram where a girl is singing. Now and run it. After which you will have some such result. Mila [song voice] Munh Hai Yaar then no one can stop you from monetization and since you are in music niche then you can upload the same content on Spotify as well and earn from Spotify as well. Even many people share the link of their pattern here so that their core audience can pay them directly there. And apart from all this, if any of your music goes viral then you can also earn from music license. There are many goes viral then you can also earn from music license. There are many start a music channel like NCS just by making beats. Where creators will get non-copyright music and you will get credit and watch time due to which your earnings will keep increasing. another way is that you can open a whole house of even music production. or documentary creators. where music generators are actually given deals worth lakhs and crores so that given deals worth lakhs and crores so that and you want me to create an AI channel, monetize it and show it to you people, then write 'Make Video' in the comment section. As soon as I get 2000 comments, I will and record my entire documentary and share it with you all. Till then make sure that you go to the links given in the description and get your music generated by visiting Artist. See you in the next video.