Instagram Trending Audio & API: Reels Sounds by Country

Instagram Trending Audio

Get the Instagram Reels audio trending right now in any country: songs and original sounds that Instagram itself marks as trending there (the ↗ arrow in the app), ranked by how many creators are using them this week, with the exact number of Reels made with each sound, its daily growth, the top Reels, the Spotify link and an audio preview.

{ "countries": ["US"], "maxSounds": 50 }

No Instagram login, no cookies, no browser. Use it as an Instagram trending audio finder, a trending audio list for Reels you refresh every day, or an Instagram trending audio API for content calendars, music marketing and agencies. Instagram shows a different trend list in every country, so each country is read from an IP in that country: India gets Indian trends, the UK gets British ones.

What you get

Real example, 18 October 2026, United States, 198 creators posting in English sampled, top of 208 trending sounds:

#	sound	artist	trending	creators using it	Reels with this audio	top Reel plays
1	BbY WOW	KAROL G, Judeline, rusowsky	yes	9	908,609	814,021
2	Nicole Kidman	ADÉLA	yes	7	371,430	2,023,452
3	Stay Sexy	HUGEL, LaBritney, Mili	yes	7	80,103	571,696
4	Khalouni Neich	Yusuf Ekşioğlu	yes	6	67,550	7,377,143
5	Stop The Wedding!	Ashe	yes	5	23,207	882,991
6	Shine	HUGEL, David Guetta, French Montana	yes	5	16,750	5,382,665
7	Dogs In Our Twenties	Dan + Shay	yes	3	3,925	199,373

Every row:

Field	Example	What it is
title, artist, artistUsername	Stop The Wedding!, Ashe, ashemusic	the song, or the original audio and its creator
isTrending	true	Instagram's own trending flag in that country
creatorsInSample, reelsInSample, samplePlays	5, 6, 3,410,000	how many sampled creators used it in their Reels of the last 14 days, and the plays of those Reels
reelsCount, reelsCountText	23207, 23.2K reels	all Reels on Instagram that use the audio (exact)
reelsGrowth, reelsGrowthPerDay, reelsGrowthPercent	4120, 4120, 21.6	new Reels since the previous day's list (from the second day of a country)
isOriginalAudio	false	original audio recorded by a creator (voiceover, meme, remix) or a released song
topReelUrl, topReelPlays, topReels	instagram.com/reel/...	the most played Reels using the sound (link, plays, likes, creator)
audioUrl, spotifyUrl, previewUrl, coverUrl	instagram.com/reels/audio/...	the sound page (open it in the app to use the audio), Spotify track, audio file, cover
durationSeconds, isExplicit, newestReelAt	191.2, false, 2026-10-17
isNew, previousPosition	true, 12	compared with your previous run (monitoring)

How it works

Instagram's trending audio list is only in the app, behind a login. The Actor builds it the open way, every day:

1. It reads the Reels pages of popular sounds and collects the creators posting with them, keeping creators who write in the country's languages (English for the US, UK, Canada, Australia; Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and the other Indian languages for India; Portuguese for Brazil...).
2. It reads each creator's latest Reels from an IP in the country and notes the audio of every Reel of the last 14 days and whether Instagram marks it as trending there.
3. The trending sounds it finds lead to more creators (a second wave), until 150 creators of the country are sampled (you can set 30-600).
4. Every sound gets its page read for the exact Reels count, the top Reels and the links.

The list of each country is built once a day and shared: the first run of the day builds it (2-4 minutes), every later run reads it in seconds and pays only for the sounds.

Why this Actor

	This Actor	Instagram audio scrapers
Input	none: the trending list, ready	a song name or an audio link you already have
Trending flag	Instagram's own, per country	one global flag or none
Ranking	creators using the sound this week	none
Growth	new Reels per day since the previous list	no
Countries	any (US, UK, India, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Germany...)	no country
Price	$1.99 per 1,000 sounds, the day's list is shared	$2-10 per 1,000 rows

Get new trending sounds every day

Save your input as a task, add a daily schedule and turn on Only new sounds: each run returns only the sounds that entered the list since the previous one. Without it every row still has isNew and previousPosition. Connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Slack or email with an Apify integration.

Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription:

Event	Price	When
Sound	$1.99 per 1,000 ($1.79 on Scale, $1.59 on Business)	each sound in the results
Fresh country list	$0.04	once per country, only when your run builds today's list itself
Local sample outside the US	$0.30	once per country other than the US, together with a fresh list (its Reels go through residential IPs in the country)
Run start	$0.001

Examples: 50 US sounds from today's shared list = $0.10; the first US run of the day = $0.14; 50 sounds for India when nobody built today's Indian list yet = $0.44, later the same day $0.10.

FAQ

Is this the same list as in the Instagram app? The isTrending flag is Instagram's own for that country. The app shows a short personal list; this Actor shows every trending sound used by the sampled creators, ranked by how many of them use it.

Why are some trending sounds from another country? Instagram marks sounds as trending by where they are used, and diaspora creators bring their songs: an Indian Navratri song can trend in the US in October.

Can business accounts use these sounds? Business accounts on Instagram can use original audio and the Meta Sound Collection, not most licensed songs. Choose Original audio only in Sound type to get the sounds you can use.

How fresh is it? Today's list (UTC day). Turn on Build a fresh list to sample again now.

Do I need an Instagram account? No.

Use with the API and AI agents

Run it from your code or an AI agent with the Apify API, the Apify MCP server or the Python and JavaScript clients; read the results from the dataset (?view=sounds for the main table).

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