OP ORDER #2 - Free Music Niche Research Browser Extension

(VOICE CREATED WITH AI, MAY HAVE HALLUCINATIONS*)

I just built something I wish existed a few months ago when I was trying to figure out what music niches actually had money in them.

It is called Niche Intel, and it is a free Chrome extension that searches 9 different platforms simultaneously and tells you exactly how competitive a music niche is before you waste a single day making content for it.

No subscriptions. No API keys. No backend server. You install it, click it, type a keyword, and get back real data from YouTube, Spotify, Google Trends, a lyrics database, MusicBrainz, Google Suggest, YouTube Suggest, DuckDuckGo, and a custom keyword expander — all in about 5 seconds.

I am giving it away for free. File at the bottom*

Let me walk you through what it actually does.

You type one keyword — something like "dark trap beats" or "acoustic love songs" or "motivational rap" — and the extension fans out to 9 different free data sources at the same time:

YouTube — Pulls real search results with view counts, channel names, publish dates, and thumbnails. You immediately see how many views the top videos have and how much competition exists.

Spotify / Music — Searches the iTunes/Apple Music catalog (same data as Spotify) and returns tracks, artists, genres, album art, release dates, and 30-second audio previews. Every result has a direct Spotify search link.

Google Trends — Fetches actual interest-over-time data for the past 3 months and plots it on a chart. Also pulls rising and top related queries so you can see what is gaining momentum right now.

Lyrics Analysis — Searches LRCLIB, a free lyrics database, and tells you how many songs in that niche have lyrics versus how many are instrumental. This is massive for anyone creating music because it shows you content gaps in specific niches.

Music Keyword Expander — Automatically generates dozens of keyword ideas by combining your search with music-specific modifiers like "type beat," "playlist," "tutorial," "remix," "royalty free," and platform names. Sorts them into categories: beats, playlists, tutorials, and general.

MusicBrainz — Taps into the open music encyclopedia for recording metadata, artist credits, release info, and genre tags.

Google Suggest — Shows you what Google autocompletes when people start typing your keyword. These are real searches real people are making right now.

YouTube Suggest — Same thing but specifically what YouTube autocompletes. Different audience, different results.

DuckDuckGo — Pulls the top 10 web results so you can see what is ranking for your niche across the open web.

All 9 run in parallel. Results come back in seconds.

This is the feature that changes the game.

Every time you search, the extension crunches numbers from all 9 sources and gives you a score from 0 to 100 telling you exactly how strong the opportunity is in that niche.

Here is what it factors in:

YouTube Competition (0-20 points) — If the top videos have low view counts, that means less competition and more room for you. High views = saturated.

Trend Momentum (0-20 points) — Is search interest going up, staying flat, or dying? Rising trends score higher because you want to ride the wave, not chase the tail.

Search Demand (0-15 points) — How many autocomplete suggestions come back from Google and YouTube? More suggestions = more people searching for it = real demand.

Music Catalog Depth (0-15 points) — How many tracks already exist in that niche? Enough to validate it, but not so many that you are lost in the noise.

Web Competition (0-15 points) — Fewer web results = easier to rank for. More results = harder to stand out.

Content Gap (0-15 points) — This looks at the lyrics data. If a niche is mostly instrumental with few lyrical tracks, that is a content gap you can fill. If it is underserved in the lyrics database entirely, even better.

The score groups into five verdicts:

75-100: Golden Niche
55-74: Strong Opportunity
40-54: Worth Exploring
25-39: Competitive
0-24: Highly Saturated

You stop guessing. You start making decisions based on actual data.

Most keyword tools are built for bloggers and e-commerce. This one is built for music.

The lyrics analysis searches a real lyrics database and shows you:

How many tracks have full lyrics versus how many are instrumental — if you are making lyrical content in a niche that is dominated by instrumentals, you are filling a real gap.

A "Trending Lyric Keywords" word cloud — shows you the most common words used in lyrics for that niche. If you are writing songs or creating AI-generated music with tools like Suno, this tells you what language and themes resonate in that space.

Word count per track so you know whether tracks in a niche tend to be short hooks or full lyrical pieces.

Synced lyrics availability for each track.

For anyone creating music, this is the kind of data you could not get anywhere without scrubbing through hundreds of songs manually.

Do not know where to start? The extension includes a preset panel with 36 genre and mood chips you can click to instantly search:

Genres: synthwave, ambient, chillhop, trap beats, R&B soul, indie folk, bedroom pop, jazz hop, phonk, dark ambient, future bass, drill beats, neo soul, vaporwave, cinematic orchestral, acoustic guitar, piano ballad, EDM drops, reggaeton, afrobeats, K-pop, city pop, shoegaze, and more.

Moods: chill study music, sad piano, motivational beats, dark moody, happy upbeat, romantic love songs, aggressive energy, dreamy ethereal, nostalgic retro, peaceful meditation, epic cinematic, melancholic.

Click any chip and it auto-searches across all 9 sources immediately. No typing required.

Every search you run can be exported as a CSV spreadsheet or raw JSON file with one click.

The CSV includes all YouTube videos with view counts and links, all Spotify tracks with genres and release dates, all lyrics analysis with keyword breakdowns, all autocomplete suggestions, all keyword ideas categorized, and all web results.

You can take that data into Google Sheets, your content calendar, or hand it to a team member and say "here is what is working in this niche."

Every search result gets cached locally for 24 hours. That means you can search a keyword, close the extension, come back later, and get instant results without hitting any external service again.

It also means you can do rapid-fire research across dozens of niches without worrying about rate limits or slowdowns.

That is it. No account. No API key. No server. Works on any computer with Chrome or Brave.

I got tired of using 6 different tabs to figure out whether a niche was worth pursuing. YouTube in one tab. Google Trends in another. Spotify search in another. Manually guessing at competition levels based on vibes.

Now it is one search, one window, one score.

If you are a music artist, producer, content creator, or anyone building a catalog — this is the research layer you did not know you needed.

It is free. It will stay free. I built it for this community.

Talk soon.

Suno — AI music generation for creating full songs with lyrics, vocals, and instrumentals.
https://www.suno.ai

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NotebookLM — Upload your content and get AI-powered insights and audio overviews. Free.
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Canva — Free tier for thumbnails, social posts, and album artwork.
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Leonardo AI — 150 daily tokens for AI-generated images and thumbnails.
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