Holds back
Niche: Music
$0.80 to $4 per 1,000 views
$0typical $2$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator.
The Weeknd
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$199,000a month
About $2.39M a year, likely $1.42M to $3.76M
Low end$118,000
Most likely$199,000
High end$313,000
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$199,000a month
- Long videos125.7M views a month$199,000100%
- Shorts177.1K views a month$210%
- Live streams38K views a month$730%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$47,900 to $120,000Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 5,989,727 views per long video and typical sponsor rates for this niche.
Views per video
The last 30 public uploads, oldest on the left. Tap or hover a bar for the video.
Long videosShorts
040M80M
Median 6.3M
Jan 31Oct 14
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Weeknd & JENNIE - One Of The Girls (Live in Seoul, South Korea) | Long video | Oct 14 | 2,500,584 |
| Directed by Takashi Miike | Long video | May 3 | 7,060,253 |
| A Foreshadowing Of The Final Leg | Long video | May 3 | 5,715,905 |
| The Weeknd, Giorgio Moroder - Big Sleep (Directed by Gaspar Noé) | Long video | Oct 10 | 3,062,258 |
| The Weeknd - Society | Long video | Sep 11 | 9,079,890 |
| The Weeknd - Closing Night | Long video | Sep 3 | 17,036,636 |
| The Weeknd - Baptized In Fear (Official Music Video) | Long video | Jun 6 | 16,204,532 |
| The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow | Long video | May 17 | 7,397,257 |
| The Weeknd - Timeless Remix ft. Playboi Carti & Doechii (Official Audio) | Long video | May 9 | 2,176,557 |
| The Weeknd - I Can't Wait To Get There (Official Visualizer) | Long video | Apr 24 | 1,924,351 |
| The Weeknd - Drive (Official Music Video) | Long video | Apr 18 | 12,249,307 |
| Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) Official Trailer #2 – Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan | Long video | Apr 1 | 15,093,843 |
| all i have is my legacy. #hurryuptomorrow // 5.16.25 | Short | Mar 12 | 383,031 |
| open up my eyes. #hurryuptomorrow // 5.16.25 | Short | Mar 11 | 310,729 |
| HURRY UP TOMORROW IN THEATERS MAY 16TH | Short | Feb 22 | 224,554 |
| Remember To Enjoy The Light Before It’s Gone | Long video | Feb 21 | 715,627 |
| The Weeknd - Cry For Me (Official Music Video) | Long video | Feb 11 | 70,343,321 |
| Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) Official Trailer – Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan | Long video | Feb 4 | 17,259,109 |
| The Weeknd - Open Hearts (Official Video) | Long video | Feb 2 | 29,108,700 |
| RED TERROR | Short | Feb 1 | 244,516 |
| The Weeknd - Red Terror (Official Video) | Long video | Feb 1 | 7,234,595 |
| The Weeknd - Open Hearts (Live on Jimmy Kimmel Live!) | Long video | Jan 31 | 1,893,347 |
| The Weeknd - Drive (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 4,980,979 |
| The Weeknd - Without a Warning (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 5,979,208 |
| The Weeknd - Take Me Back To LA (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 6,812,722 |
| The Weeknd, Playboi Carti - Timeless (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 30,370,778 |
| The Weeknd - Until We're Skin & Bones (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 1,791,426 |
| The Weeknd - Open Hearts (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 6,607,298 |
| The Weeknd - I Can't Wait To Get There (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 2,620,934 |
| The Weeknd - Cry For Me (Audio) | Long video | Jan 31 | 16,691,865 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
Helps
Where viewers likely are
95% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in CA). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Neutral
Shorts in the mix
0% of views this month
Long 100%Shorts 0%
Shorts pay about $0.12 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.
Holds back
Videos under 8 minutes
median 4 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.
Helps
Upload pace: speeding up
0.08 per week
Not enough history to compare yet.
Holds back
Views per video are falling
0.66x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
121.5M views a month
Uploads older than three years keep getting watched. We count them at half their lifetime average pace, a conservative guess, capped by the channel's lifetime average.
Time to monetize
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Unlock with ProHow we got this. Views from the last 30 days are rebuilt from each public video's views and age, cut to the views YouTube pays on, then priced with niche, audience and video length ad rates from published creator data. We run this 2,000 times with realistic variation and show the middle half. Data read November 8, 2026, 08:20 UTC.