I think having an accompanying video is the wrong way to go.
that's what i thought too, in june 2017, but then after 4 songs i realized that the audience simply wasn't there. then i looked at the size of my youtube audience, and it was a no brainer. since then, i've done a video for every song, and it takes much longer, but the music audience (itunes, spotify, even radio) has grown much more since then and continues to steadily grow