Niche websites can be very profitable businesses. Here are 41 examples of websites in the music niche that get over 1 million visits per month.
| Website | Description | Website Traffic (Monthly Visits) | Top Visitor Countries | Top Non-Branded Organic Search Terms | |
| 1 | soundguys.com | Music tech blog with review articles for sound equipment (earbuds, headphones, microphones, etc) and informational articles (e.g. how to stream music through chromecast). The site is monetized through affiliate commissions and ads. | 3.04 Million | USA (34%) UK (7%) Canada (6%) | “bone conduction headphones” “beats fit pro review” “open back headphones” “bose 700 vs sony 1000xm4” |
| 2 | freesound.org | Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound clips. | 2.20 Million | USA (22%) UK (9%) Brazil (5%) | “free sound effects” “free sounds” |
| 3 | musictheory.net | Resources for teaching and learning music theory. Example Resources: – Calculators (e.g. scale, chord, interval, and accidental calculators) – Staff paper generator – Reading music exercises (as simple widgets) – Written lessons (bullet form) – Mobile and tablet apps for purchase | 1.28 Million | USA (59%) Canada (3%) Poland (3%) | “music theory” “tempo tapper” “interval calculator” “chord calculator” |
| 4 | chordify.net | Turn any song (youtube, soundcloud, mp3, etc) into a set of chords. | 8.23 Million | USA (16%) Russia (4%) Germany (4%) | “lsd and the search for god blue angel lounge chords” |
| 5 | chordu.com | Get piano, ukulele, and guitar chords with variations for any song. | 2.50 Million | USA (15%) Germany (6%) France (5%) | “crying all the time alexandra savior tab” “accordes seres irracionales los de marras” “ella jose luis chacin acordes” |
| 6 | e-chords.com | Chords and tabs for songs. The site also has video lessons with chords for many songs. The site has resources for guitars, drums, ukuleles, keyboards, flutes, bass guitars, and harmonicas. | 2.43 Million | USA (29%) Germany (6%) UK (5%) | “wonderwall chords” “lost on you chords” “let it be chords” |
| 7 | guitaretab.com | Searchable database of around 200,000 tabs. | 1.32 Million | USA (31%) Philippines (8%) UK (6%) | “guitar tabs” “dancing queen chords” “teenage dream chords” “teenage dream guitar chords” “enchanted chords” |
| 8 | ultimate-guitar.com | Chords, guitar tabs, bass tabs, ukulele chords, and music industry news. | 53.58 Million | USA (30%) UK (7%) Philippines (5%) | “guitar tabs” “tabs” “chords” “farewell transmission tab” |
| 9 | sheetmusicplus.com | Sheet music store (pay to buy). | 2.26 Million | USA (53%) UK (5%) Canada (4%) | “sheet music” |
| 10 | sheetmusicdirect.com | Sheet music store (pay to buy). | 1.55 Million | USA (37%) Germany (7%) France (7%) | “sheet music” |
| 11 | musicnotes.com | Sheet music store (pay to buy) with a paid membership option that gives you a discount on sheet music purchases along with other benefits. | 3.73 Million | USA (46%) UK (6%) Canada (5%) | “music notes” “how to read sheet music” “sheet music” “how to read music sheet” |
| 12 | free-scores.com | Free sheet music for all instruments (winds, strings, choral, and orchestra). The site appears to be monetized through affiliate links to sites like sheetmusicplus.com as well as ads. | 1.08 Million | USA (23%) France (16%) Italy (5%) | “free sheet music” “free scores” “chopin waltz ops 64 no 2 free pdf” “marantz mph-2 professional studio headphones” “just the way you are billy joel pdf guitar” |
| 13 | imslp.org | Creative Commons licensed sheet music and recordings. | 3.81 Million | USA (27%) UK (6%) Italy (6%) | “bach” “beethoven” |
| 14 | musescore.com | Share, download, and print free sheet music for piano, guitar, flute, and other instruments. The site has 200+ online music courses as well. Musescore.com also has a custom software (free to download) to create, play, and print sheet music. The site is run by MuseScore Ltd, a Cyprus-based company that was acquired by Ultimate Guitar. | 10.56 Million | USA (31%) Canada (5%) Germany (4%) | “music score” “sheet music” “clair de lune sheet music” |
| 15 | allkpop.com | Minute to minute news updates on Kpop celebrities, music, and topics. | 23.42 Million | USA (33%) Malaysia (6%) Indonesia (5%) | “bts” “blackpink” “kpop news” “naver bts concert” |
| 16 | tuner-online.com | Tune your guitar online with a microphone. | 1.49 Million | USA (12%) Spain (8%) Italy (5%) | “guitar tuner” “guitar tuner online” “afinador de guitarra” “online guitar tuner” “online tuner” |
| 17 | musicgrotto.com | Informational music blog with many “top N” list type articles (e.g. “51 Best Songs of All Time” and “41 Best Karaoke Duets of All Time”) | 1.34 Million | USA (43%) UK (6%) Canada (5%) | “guitar chords” “best songs of all time” “easy guitar songs” “best albums of all time” “80s rock bands” |
| 18 | spinditty.com | Music blog (theory, playlists, history, and more). | 1.87 Million | USA (40%) UK (7%) Canada (6%) | “teenage songs” “kpop girl groups” “teenage years songs” “songs in c major” “korean boy band 2020” |
| 19 | chosic.com | Free tools to discover new music and songs. The site has multiple discovery tools: – “Similar songs finder” – “Random songs picker” – “Music genre finder” – “Find song by lyrics” – “Find songs by theme” Etc | 2.40 Million | USA (22%) India (6%) Brazil (5%) UK (4%) | “songs like” “find similar songs” “similar song finder” “spotify playlist analyzer” |
| 20 | songsterr.com | Guitar, bass, and drum tabs and chords with free online tab player. This site feels MUCH more modern and sleek than most sites in this list. | 11.20 Million | USA (17%) Russia (7%) France (4%) | “hotel california tab” “master of puppets tab” “guitar tabs” |
| 21 | songfacts.com | Blog about the stories and meanings behind the songs, with the songwriters. | 5.33 Million | USA (47%) UK (8%) Canada (5%) | “du hast lyrics” “taylor swift songs” “gary wright really want to know you” |
| 22 | songmeanings.com | Song lyrics and lyric interpretation articles. | 4.25 Million | USA (41%) UK (7%) Canada (5%) | “say goodbye to hollywood billy joel lyrics” “i wish i was like you, easily amused” |
| 23 | songmeaningsandfacts.com | Despite being a clear copycat of songfacts.com and songmeanings.com, this website still brings in over 2 million visits a month. | 2.05 Million | USA (39%) Philippines (5%) UK (5%) | “mary on a cross meaning” “what does mary on a cross mean” “mary on a cross song meaning” “do you really want to hurt me song meaning” “what does the song mary on a cross mean” |
| 24 | musicca.com | Lessons, exercises, and interactive tools to help you learn music. | 2.49 Million | USA (10%) Brazil (10%) Russia (6%) | “piano online” “piano virtual” “piano” “online piano” “metronome” |
| 25 | allmusic.com | Music news, new releases, music search engine, music quizzes, musician profiles, and miscellaneous other music articles. The site’s structure and navigation are very confusing. I would guess that it’s almost exclusively navigated through Google search. | 6.12 Million | USA (43%) Canada (6%) UK (5%) | “keanu torres” “sophia black” |
| 26 | rateyourmusic.com | Community music rating website. | 16.49 Million | USA (29%) UK (8%) Canada (5%) | *Top 5 organic search terms are all branded, but 87% of organic searches overall are non-branded. |
| 27 | lyricstranslate.com | Multilingual song lyric translation community. | 16.44 Million | USA (18%) Russia (13%) Turkey (6%) | “red sun in the sky lyrics” “du hast lyrics” “battotai lyrics” |
| 28 | azlyrics.com | Legal database of song lyrics. | 24.48 Million | USA (32%) Philippines (11%) UK (5%) | “lavender haze lyrics” “anti hero lyrics” “anti hero lyrics taylor swift” “snow on the beach lyrics” “labyrinth taylor swift lyrics” |
| 29 | genius.com | Song lyrics website. | 101.3 Million | USA (36%) Russia (5%) UK (5%) | “unholy lyrics” “snow on the beach lyrics” “bigger than the whole sky lyrics” |
| 30 | lyrics.com | Lyrics to (almost) every song. | 5.54 Million | USA (45%) UK (5%) Canada (4%) | “lyrics” “lyrics search” “lyrics finder” “lyric search” “find song by lyrics” |
| 31 | songlyrics.com | Millions of searchable song lyrics. | 2.51 Million | USA (40%) Philippines (5%) UK (5%) | “song lyrics” “amazing grace lyrics” “lyrics” “rick roll lyrics” “numa numa lyrics” |
| 32 | lyricsmint.com | Indian lyric website that provides Hindi song lyrics. | 3.03 Million | India (76%) USA (4%) Bangladesh (3%) | “kaise hua lyrics” “teri mitti lyrics” “samjhawan lyrics” “raabta lyrics” |
| 33 | tunebat.com | Find key and bpm information for any song. | 3.66 Million | USA (24%) Germany (5%) France (5%) | “bpm finder” “key finder” “bpm detector” |
| 34 | vocalremover.org | Split music into separated vocals and instrumental tracks. | 4.84 Million | Russia (12%) USA (11%) Brazil (6%) | “vocal remover” “vocal remover online” “separar voz de musica” |
| 35 | mp3cut.net | Simple online tool to cut out a piece of music. | 3.90 Million | Russia (10%) USA (8%) Brazil (7%) | “audio cutter” “mp3 cutter” “mp3 cutter online” “cortar audio” “cut mp3” |
| 36 | audiotrimmer.com | Online tool to trim audio files. | 1.34 Million | USA (17%) Russia (11%) India (7%) | “audio trimmer” “mp3 trimmer” “trim mp3” “mp3 cutter” “mp3 editor” |
| 37 | equipboard.com | Music tech / gear blog. | 1.14 Million | USA (29%) UK (8%) Canada (6%) | “what guitar does joe hawley use” “abba bjorn playing guitar” “jacob collier gear” “any singers using audix” |
| 38 | premierguitar.com | Guitar informational blog (lessons, product reviews, recording tips, etc). | 1.05 Million | USA (50%) Canada (7%) UK (6%) | “epiphone korina explorer” “horsegirl band” “tod10n” “kaizen nyc” |
| 39 | musicradar.com | Music news and reviews. | 3.87 Million | USA (27%) UK (15%) Canada (7%) | “daw” “best daw” “best piano vst” “dj software” |
| 40 | soundonsound.com | Sound and music news, reviews, techniques, tech, advice, and forum. | 1.09 Million | USA (26%) UK (14%) Canada (6%) | “alesis sr-16 power supply specs” “rupert neve designs portico ii channel” “api 2500 bus compressor review” “studio one 6” |
| 41 | sonichits.com | Song lyrics and interpretation blog with open comment sections for discussion. | 1.60 Million | USA (24%) Germany (6%) Canada (4%) | “what makes you beautiful cimorelli and one direction” “lotus bomb original mixhuge hephner” “we been troddin lyrics” “ikillzone_blas” “10 negertjes zaten op een hek” |
You may think that the music niche is saturated, but if you are passionate about music, you can almost certainly build a new profitable site. Here are two good SEO strategies to build and rank a new niche music blog:
- Identify young, promising artists as early as possible, and create content about them. Many will never reach the mainstream, but any that do become popular will generate Google searches, and not many other sites will have written about them yet. The content you produce could be song lyrics, song lyric interpretations/meanings, artist backstory & gossip, artist interviews, artist physical and family information, etc.
- Periodically research any new instruments that have been invented or are gaining popularity. Google and Google Trends are both good tools for this. If/when you identify one, start creating content and tools (e.g. online tuners, online sheet music generators, etc) for that up-and-coming instrument.