Can you make money with electronic music videos on YouTube?

We already covered whether you can make money with AI-generated music on Spotify and whether AI cartoons are a real business on YouTube too. The format that follows is trending right now: electronic/house music sets, filmed in an intimate living-room-style setup with warm lighting — the evolution of the old "electronic music + scenic backgrounds" format. But here a copyright problem shows up that doesn't exist in the other two formats, and generative AI solves it at the root.

What the format is and why it's trending

It's the home version of a club DJ set: someone mixing (or appearing to mix) house/melodic house music in a living room set up with lights, meant to play in the background for long stretches — the same use case as classic ambient music, but with a more "personal" feel than a generic nature video. It's a direct evolution of the old electronic-music-plus-scenery format, not something entirely new.

How much money you can actually make

There's an important number here that changes expectations: channels classified as "Music" on YouTube have one of the lowest RPMs on the whole platform — between USD 1.5 and 3, below the global average of USD 3-5. A real example: Chillhop Music, a long-running channel with 3.3 million subscribers and 687 million cumulative views, brings in an estimated USD 2,000 to 7,000 a month — a modest number for that audience size, precisely because of the "Music" category's low RPM.

Compare that to the relaxation/nature channels we found in the ESBUENISIMO Studio research (Chill Music Lab, over USD 119,000/month) and the gap is enormous even though the background content is similar. The reason isn't content quality: it's how YouTube categorizes it. A channel tagged as wellness/focus/meditation lands in a higher-value ad category than one simply tagged "Music" — the same type of audio, positioned differently, can earn several times more.

The copyright problem nobody mentions

A real DJ set, mixing commercial tracks from other artists, exposes the channel to Content ID claims — the platform detects the original song playing and can mute the video, claim the monetization, or take it down entirely. The traditional workaround is using explicitly royalty-free music (labels like NoCopyrightSounds), but that heavily limits the available catalog.

Why AI-generated music solves this at the root

This connects directly to what we already covered in the Spotify article: generating the whole set with AI (Suno, Udio) instead of mixing real tracks removes the Content ID problem entirely — it's new music, with no prior owner. It also solves the volume problem we saw in the Spotify article: producing a full hour-long set with AI is far faster than mixing live, which lets you publish at the frequency this kind of channel needs to grow.

What you need to build this format

• Suno or Udio (paid plans, USD 10-30/month) to generate original house/electronic tracks, no vocals.
• A space filmed once (the living room, the console, the lights) that can be reused as a looping background visual for multiple different sets.
• Simple editing to sync the looping video with the AI-generated audio — you don't need to actually know how to mix if the music already comes fully composed from the AI.

The same old risk: inauthentic content

Same as with music and animation, YouTube doesn't penalize using AI to generate the music — it penalizes uploading the same type of video at mass volume with no real variation. Vary duration, mood, and visuals between sets instead of cloning the same video over and over.

So, is it worth it?

The base "Music" RPM is low — the real Chillhop example confirms it. The move that can actually pay off is positioning the channel as focus/relax content instead of a pure "DJ set" (the same advice that applies to the next format in this series), and using generative AI instead of mixing real tracks to remove the copyright risk at the root and publish at volume.