Shazam Charts — Trending Tracks Scraper

Scrapes Shazam's top trending charts and returns ranked track data in clean JSON. Shazam processes 40+ million song identifications per day — these charts are one of the most reliable leading indicators for what's actually breaking in music, before it shows up in streaming numbers.

Supports global top-200, country-level charts, and the viral chart. Fetch multiple regions in a single run.

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What You Get

Each track record includes:

Field	Description
rank	Chart position (1 = most Shazamed)
title	Track title
artist	Artist name
chart_scope	Chart type: top-200, top-50, or viral
chart_region	Region slug (e.g., world, united-states, japan)
chart_date	Chart date header from Shazam (e.g., "Thursday, 21 May 2026 [performance over the past 7 days]")
scrapedAt	ISO-8601 timestamp

Note: this scraper pulls from Shazam's chart data export endpoint. Fields like cover art and Apple Music links require a separate per-track lookup and are not included.

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How to Use

Inputs:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
chartScope	string	top-200	Which chart: top-200, top-50, or viral
chartRegions	array	["world"]	List of region slugs to scrape
maxItems	integer	200	Max tracks per chart (0 = all available)

Example: scrape the US top-50 and the global viral chart

{
  "chartScope": "top-50",
  "chartRegions": ["united-states", "world"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Supported regions (use the slug form):

world, united-states, united-kingdom, japan, germany, france, brazil, australia, canada, mexico, south-korea, india, and most other countries Shazam supports.

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Output Example

{
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Go",
  "artist": "The Chemical Brothers",
  "chart_scope": "top-200",
  "chart_region": "world",
  "chart_date": "Thursday, 21 May 2026 [performance over the past 7 days]",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T11:32:58.330Z"
}

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Use Cases

• A&R scouting — identify breaking tracks before they hit mainstream charts
• Sync licensing — monitor what's trending globally for sync placement research
• Music analytics — feed Shazam data into internal dashboards alongside Spotify/Apple Music
• Market research — compare regional trending patterns across countries
• Playlist curation — data-driven basis for editorial decisions

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Practical Notes

Speed: Shazam charts are a single lightweight CSV request per region. Fetching 10 regions takes a few seconds.

Rate limiting: Shazam's chart export is public and not aggressively rate-limited. The scraper uses conservative concurrency (3 parallel requests).

No authentication required. No Shazam account needed.

Chart update frequency: Shazam updates charts periodically (typically weekly rolling windows). The chart_date field tells you the exact window covered.

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Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing. You're charged per track record returned, not per run. Scraping 200 tracks per chart is fast and inexpensive.

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Support

Questions or issues? Use the actor's issue tracker or reach out via the contact form.

Data sourced from Shazam.com.