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We all benefit from variety when looking for something specific.

As an example, I play accordion and I like to hear other accordion play songs on YouTube. There may be lots of covers of a popular song I want to learn, but there are rarely many accordion covers, let alone good ones.

So the question is whether you are looking for generic entertainment, or do you take an interest in something specific? Add another search term to a query and the results can thin out pretty quick.

From a professional creator’s point of view (not me), the question is whether these niches have enough money in them to get started and grow from there? And that depends on market conditions. Can people find what they like when it’s not mainstream?

If you are YouTube, would you rather show joe schmo visitor a suggestion for accordion covers or a Cardi B video? Odds are they’re more likely to watch (and repeat watch) and share the latter.

So it’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Unless accordion covers go viral on its own, it’s probably not going to break out. But if it did then YouTube would add fuel to the fire as long as people are responding

The suggestions change based on what you watch, though. YouTube shows me lots of accordion videos.

It doesn't have to be mainstream to get the flywheel started, just well-liked by some niche.

if I can ask something specific to an accordian player, I fell in love with a band called Swap. swedish fiddles with British guitar and accordian. do you recommend anything like it?

Well, not really. There are a lot of folk genres that use accordion and I'm unfamiliar with most of them, which makes exploring interesting. Swåp is new to me. That's like Celtic music I guess? But I've listened to some of Karen Tweed's videos before.

If you have Spotify, here's a playlist of accordion recordings I like: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Ydvyr0ZjfiG4085izipNC

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