# Changelog of YouTube Shorts Music & Sound Trend Tracker (`sian.agency/youtube-shorts-sound-trend-tracker`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/youtube-shorts-sound-trend-tracker/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/youtube-shorts-sound-trend-tracker.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to YouTube Shorts Music & Sound Trend Tracker will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-09-11]

#### 🖼️ Images

- 🖼️ **The photos were always collected — now you can see them.** The full image gallery and its preview thumbnail appear in the Output tab and in every export, instead of only in the raw JSON.

### \[2026-05-21]

#### 🎉 YouTube Shorts Music & Sound Trend Tracker — Launch!

- **Sound Attribution Feed** — paginated list of every viral Short attributed to any sound, seeded by a single Short ID (the only Apify actor that exposes YouTube's sound-attribution endpoint).
- **Short Detail Mode** — full Short metadata in one row: title, channel, view count, comment count, publish date, thumbnails, sound attribution, captions, family-safe flag, available countries.
- **Native Virality Signal** — exposes YouTube's `soundTotalShortsUsingItText` (e.g. `"1.5M Shorts"`) as a top-level field — the same total-adoption metric YouTube shows creators.
- **Artist Intelligence** — sound's source channel ID, channel title, avatar URL, and source-Short URL for sync-licensing prospecting.
- **Smart Status Rows** — silent Shorts and non-attributed audio surface as `no_sound_attribution` status rows — never opaque errors, never wasted charges.
- **Geo & Language Localization** — pass `geo` and `lang` to surface region-specific trending sounds.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- **Skip building the sound graph yourself** — pass one seed Short, get the entire viral-Shorts feed for that audio in seconds.
- **Mid-market wedge pricing** — from $0.006 per row, 3–10× cheaper than adjacent TikTok sound trackers ($0.02–$0.06).
- **Clean, predictable dataset** — curated camelCase fields ready for BigQuery, Snowflake, Sheets, or any BI tool.
- **No account, no API key, no proxies** — Apify token in, dataset out.
- **Bulk-ready** — up to 50 pages per run (~800 viral Shorts mapped), with hard caps to prevent runaway runs.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- **Music label A\&R teams** mapping organic Shorts adoption for every roster track to surface momentum before it hits playlists.
- **Sync-licensing scouts** discovering rising unlicensed audio before competitors notice — pitch deals while the trend is fresh.
- **Indie artists** auditing every Short using their release so they can collab, comment, and amplify the top performers.
- **Music marketing agencies** building creator-seeding campaigns on the next wave of trending audio instead of yesterday's hits.
- **Trend forecasting & insights teams** powering "what's blowing up on Shorts" dashboards for label clients and ad agencies.
- **Brand sound-strategy teams** scouting trending audio for ad work and securing licensing pipelines before rivals.