How to Become an Overnight Music Sensation on YouTube with These 4 Tips

So many artists are turned down by major labels and national talent shows that it would make your head spin to learn just how many of them went on to stellar success as YouTubers. If you have been trying to get heard without much luck, you might want to try your hand at finding fame on YouTube. These tips should get you started.

1. Your Sound Is Everything

Since you are a budding performer, the one thing you cannot get wrong at any cost would be your sound. You might want to perform before a digital webcam and even if you haven’t fine-tuned your stage presence, that can come with time. What music lovers are there for is your sound, so keep that in mind. You could also borrow a few tips from top name recording studios that use a bit of technology to keep everything pitch perfect. The Antares Auto Tune app ensures that every note is pitch perfect and that is not anything that the leading groups and singers don’t use in the studio. It can take a great sound and make it better.

2. Get Heard by an Influencer or Two

This might take a bit of research but the one thing you will need is someone with a large following to promote you in their mediums. Whether they are YouTube influencers or bloggers, the point is that they have a large following and this can give you the exposure you need. 

3. Borrow a Trick or Two from Marketers

There is one thing you must remember at all costs. YouTube is so much more than a streaming video platform. Did you know that YouTube is one of the top search engines? With that in mind, learn how to rank well in YouTube search results with a little bit of SEO, Search Engine Optimization. It’s all about keywords people will be searching for and although they might not be searching for the names of your songs just yet, you can pull keywords from the lyrics. Bear in mind that you are trying to get heard and that means your videos need to be found. This article will explain a little about how to use SEO specifically for YouTube.

4. Don’t Give Up!

You have heard the old cliché that Rome wasn’t built in a day. So, it often is with YouTube fame. Even though you might have heard that one star was an overnight success, that isn’t always accurate. The term “overnight” is relative so to one person it may mean many months of uploading music videos and to the next it might mean a year of perfecting your sound and your YouTube presence. However, in the entertainment business, even a year is often considered to be an overnight success. Many musicians spend years performing and trying to attract the attention of a record label. With the right tools and a bit of fine tuning your marketing strategies, you might attract a huge following in just a few short months.

Even Justin Bieber became a star because his home videos on YouTube gained the attention of Scooter Braun, his manager, who was impressed with what he heard and saw. Continue writing and performing great tunes so that you stay active in the YouTube search engine. Success may just come sooner than you think.