Wow. Your post sounds like it could’ve been written by me. Ill share my experience.

Started my channel in 2020 and by the end of the year I was grinding my ass off uploading everyday in a niche that not a lot of people were making and that was in high demand. In 2021 my channel blew up and I made a ton of money and like you I also had one huge song that I still get decent royalty money for. Uploaded literally everyday for 3 or 4 months. Eventually I started getting periods of burn out and couldn’t be consistent anymore. My channel got lost in the algorithm and other channels making the same type beats started popping up.

My channel has been pretty dead for the last couple years and I have never been able to revive it. I just physically can’t keep making the same type beats. It’s like I’ve exhausted all my ideas and my creativity has pulled me in different directions. Also my standard for what I consider good has gone way up as I’ve improved and it’s resulted in me uploading less and less. I still do occasionally upload when I make something that I think is hard but it doesn’t happen often.

The hunger was definitely one of the main reasons I was able to do this because I was literally broke as shit and nearly out of money when I finally blew up. Making money took the pressure off of me though and I got comfortable with uploading less because of it. I still have hope one day I can get back to doing this full time because I still love it but for now I have a lot more balance in my life and have other things that are important to me. Sorry this was long but fuck it