Something is working, and a third of it is leaking out of a hole you can close this afternoon.
Five weeks in, 45,787 views with a 3.4% like rate is a real start, not a vanity number. Your friend is not wrong that the first channel found something.
But 310 subscribers on 45,787 views means the traffic arrives and leaves. And 33% of everything you have ever earned on YouTube sits on 7 videos whose description contains no link to Spotify, Apple Music or anything else. Your single biggest video is one of them.
Where the traffic goes to die
These 7 descriptions have no streaming link. They are your oldest uploads, from before you started writing full descriptions, and they are also your best performers. 14,785 views with nowhere to go.
Fix time: about 20 minutes. Paste the same streaming block you already use on the recent uploads. Nothing else on either channel returns this much for this little.
Every video, in order
Height is views, left to right is upload date. Colour is channel.
Two things this shape shows. Your output rate climbed to 1.4 releases a day, and the bars did not follow. Among the 31 Club Saints videos that are at least a week old, so old enough to have collected most of their views, the 15 posted between 15 Jul and 31 Jul have a median of 1,079 views, against 548 for the 16 that followed. Same format, same channel, roughly half the reach.
Your top video is 15% of all long form traffic on its own, and your top three are 32%. That concentration is the opportunity, not the problem: a handful of tracks clearly connect with people, and none of them has had anything built on top of it.
Do Not Disturb won twice. You uploaded it on 15 July (6,881 views) and again on 07 August (1,374 views). Both beat your median. It has no music video, no shorts cut and, on the version that carries 6,881 views, no link to anywhere.
Three channels, one audience
Channel
First upload
Videos
Views
Median
Subs
Sub rate
Club Saints
15 Jul
37 + 2 sh
38,818
818
252
0.65%
Broby
10 Aug
13 + 1 sh
6,969
110
53
0.76%
Flyhauzz
none
0
0
0
5
0.00%
Flyhauzz has 5 subscribers and no videos at all, while it is credited as the featured artist on Bad Decisions. Anyone who hears that track and goes looking finds an empty page.
Broby started 26 days after Club Saints and is starting from zero, even though the two share an audience: your only cross credit, Cash Only, took 517 views, below the Club Saints median of 818. Three channels split one small audience three ways, and YouTube needs watch history density to recommend anyone.
One thing you can stop doing
Tag count is not your lever. Across Club Saints, the correlation between number of tags and views is r = -0.55, which is negative. Your three untagged videos rank 1, 3, 17 on the channel, and two of them are your biggest.
That correlation is confounded, so read it carefully: the untagged videos are also the oldest, so they have had the most time. The honest conclusion is not that tags hurt you. It is that they are doing nothing, and 46 of your 50 titles carry the same "(Official Lyric Video)" suffix while your two biggest tracks are among the few that do not. Effort spent on tag lists is effort not spent on the two things that move a music channel: the first three seconds, and the thumbnail.
Shorts are the other untouched surface. You have 3 across both channels, totalling 421 views, and two of the three are the same song uploaded twice.
What I would do first
Close the leakPaste your current streaming block into the 7 descriptions above. 14,785 views have landed there so far, and more land every day.20 minutes · highest return on the list
Point Flyhauzz somewhereEither put its tracks on it or send it to Broby. An empty channel credited on a release costs you every listener curious enough to click.10 minutes
Run one test instead of one more trackTake Do Not Disturb, the only song that has proven itself twice, and give it the full treatment: a real video, three shorts cut from the hook, a fixed description. Then compare a fortnight of that against a fortnight of new uploads. You are releasing 1.4 tracks a day on a channel with 252 subscribers, and the data cannot yet tell you whether volume or depth pays better. One test settles it.Two weeks · settles the strategy question