YouTube Shorts Trending Songs & Sounds: Chart & API

YouTube Shorts Trending Songs & Sounds: Chart & API

See the trending songs and sounds on YouTube Shorts today in 22 countries + global. The Actor reads YouTube's official Top songs on Shorts chart (daily or weekly) and opens each song's Shorts sound page: how many Shorts use the sound, how fast that number grows since your last check, who made the sound and its top Shorts.

{ "countries": ["US", "GB", "IN"], "period": "daily" }

No YouTube API key, no login. Use it as a YouTube Shorts trending audio API: one call returns clean JSON, CSV or Excel.

What you get

One row per sound. Real example, US daily chart of 22 October 2026:

#	Song	Artists	Places up	Days on chart	Usage change	Shorts using the sound	Sound by
1	misery.	pupsies	0	106	-8.8%	2.4M	@pupsiess
2	Oh Klahoma	Jack Stauber	+1	25	-11.9%	140K	@JackStauber
3	Bow Bow Bow	Zeddy Will	+1	20	+24.6%	44K	@zeddywill

From the second run on, every row also shows the change in the Shorts count since the previous check and the new Shorts per day.

Field	Description
rank, previousRank, rankChange, isNewEntry	Position on the chart now and in the previous day or week (+ = moved up)
periodsOnChart, usageChangePercent	Days (or weeks) on the chart; change in Shorts usage from the previous period
title, artists, label, releaseDate, songwriters, producers, songUrl, thumbnail	The song
country, countryName, period, chartDate	Which chart: country, daily or weekly, the last day of the chart period
soundId, soundUrl, soundTitle, soundArtist, soundArtistChannelUrl, originalVideoUrl	The Shorts sound page of the song and the channel behind the sound
shortsCount, shortsCountText	Shorts that use the sound, as YouTube shows it ("2.4M Shorts")
shortsCountChange, shortsGrowthPerDay, previousCheckAt	Growth: change since the previous check by any run, new Shorts per day
topShorts	The most popular Shorts with the sound: link, title, views
chartSource	youtube-charts (live), cache (see FAQ) or tracked (a sound you gave)

How it works

1. Enter the countries: codes like US, names like Germany, or global for the worldwide chart
2. Choose daily (what is trending today) or weekly
3. Optional: Track sounds by link, a past chart date, Only new sounds for scheduled runs
4. Run, then download as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it as an API

Input	What it does
Countries	One or many of the 22 countries with a Shorts chart, plus global
Chart period	Daily or weekly Top songs on Shorts (50 songs each)
Sounds per country	Top N of each chart
Sound stats	On by default: Shorts count, growth, sound artist, top Shorts. Off = chart columns only
Top Shorts per sound	0 to 15 most popular Shorts using each sound
Track sounds	Any sound page, song link or Short link: its Shorts count and growth on every run
Chart date	A past chart: daily charts since November 2023
Only new sounds	Monitoring: later runs return only songs that were not on the chart last time

Countries with a Shorts chart: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, and global (worldwide). YouTube publishes no Shorts chart for other countries: use global there.

Why this Actor

🎵 The official trending list	YouTube's own Top songs on Shorts chart, the songs most used in Shorts, not a guess from a sample of videos
📈 Is the sound still growing?	Shorts count per sound and its growth since the last check, so you jump on a sound while it rises
🌍 22 countries + global	Compare markets in one run: the US, the UK, India, Brazil, Germany, Japan...
🎬 Top Shorts per sound	See how creators use the sound before you make your own Short
🔔 Track your sounds	Labels and artists: follow any sound by link, also off the chart
💰 $0.10 for a whole chart	50 sounds with stats, $0.002 per sound; a sound tracker on the Store charges $0.006 per Short

Pricing

Pay per result, no subscription needed. Apify Scale and Business plans pay less:

Event	Free and Starter plans	Scale plan	Business plan
Run start	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001
Sound (one row)	$0.00199	$0.00179	$0.00159

Task	Cost
Top 20 trending sounds in the US today	$0.041
Full daily chart (50) in 5 countries	$0.50
Daily check of the US chart for a month, only new sounds (~5 new a day)	~$0.33

Ready-made tasks

Task	What you get
YouTube Shorts Trending Songs Today	Today's top songs on Shorts in the US with Shorts count and growth

FAQ

Where does the list come from? From YouTube Charts (charts.youtube.com), the "Top songs on Shorts" chart: the songs used the most in Shorts in a country on a day or in a week. The Shorts count and top Shorts come from each song's sound page on YouTube (youtube.com/source/.../shorts).

Are the Shorts counts exact? They are what YouTube shows on the sound page, rounded: "2.4M Shorts", "44K Shorts". Small sounds change in steps of hundreds, big ones in steps of 100K, so growth on very popular sounds shows up over days, not hours.

How is growth measured? Every run records the Shorts count of each sound (at most one point every 6 hours, shared by all runs). The next run compares with the newest point that is at least an hour old.

What about original sounds that are not songs? The chart lists songs. Any other sound (an original sound of a creator) can be followed with Track sounds: paste its sound page or a Short that uses it.

What does "cache" in chartSource mean? In October 2026 YouTube Charts refused all requests for about two weeks. If that happens again, the Actor returns the last copy of the chart it read and marks the rows cache; the sound stats stay live.

How far back does history go? Daily Shorts charts since November 2023, weekly ones longer (they end on Thursdays). The sound stats are always today's numbers.

Use with the API and AI agents

Run it via the Apify API from Python, Node.js or any HTTP client, or connect it to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents through the Apify MCP server: "Which songs are trending on YouTube Shorts in India today, and which of them are gaining the most new Shorts?"

Other YouTube tools

Tool	What it does
YouTube Trending & Charts Scraper	Trending music videos and trailers, top songs, artists and podcasts, history since 2017
YouTube Shorts Scraper	Shorts of channels, searches, hashtags and sounds: exact stats, viral score
YouTube Thumbnail Downloader	Thumbnails of videos, channels and searches in HD, ZIP, thumbnail change history
YouTube Playlist Scraper	Every video of playlists to CSV, length at any speed, deleted video finder
YouTube Search Scraper	Search results with every filter, newest first, without Shorts
YouTube Channel Scraper	Channel stats, growth history, videos, Shorts and streams
YouTube Channel Email Scraper	Public emails, websites and socials of channels, influencer lists by niche
YouTube Video Details Scraper	Full details and exact stats of any videos, views tracker over time
YouTube Transcript Scraper	Transcripts and subtitles of videos, channels and playlists: text, SRT, search
YouTube Comments Scraper	Comments and replies of videos, Shorts and channels, only-new monitoring
YouTube SEO & Rank Tracker	Searches a video ranks for, keyword rankings, tags, suggestions
Google Sheets Import & Export	Send the results to a Google Sheet

Is it legal?

The Actor reads only public pages that YouTube shows to any visitor at charts.youtube.com and youtube.com, without logging in, and does not download videos or audio. Use it for research, content planning and music market analysis.