YouTube Charts allow you to view the hottest artists, songs, and music videos from around the world. We occasionally update our Charts criteria — check back here for updates.
Daily YouTube Charts
The following charts are updated daily based on YouTube views.
Trending chart
The Trending chart gives you a look into what’s new and hot in music. Songs are ranked based on popularity upon release. The Trending Chart is updated a few times a day.
Daily Top Music Videos
The Daily Top Music Videos chart refreshes daily and highlights the most viewed official music videos on YouTube.
Daily Top Songs on Shorts
Top Songs on Shorts recognizes song performance across YouTube Shorts. Songs are ranked daily, based on the total number of Shorts created that feature the song.
Weekly YouTube Charts
The following charts are updated based on weekly YouTube views.
Weekly Top Songs
The Weekly Top Songs chart highlights the most played songs on YouTube. This chart combines the total views for each official version of a song, including:
- The official music video
- User-made videos with the official song
- Lyric videos
Weekly Top Artists
The Weekly Top Artists chart celebrates the most popular artists on YouTube. Artists are ranked in this chart using the total view count across an artist’s entire discography, including:
- Official music videos
- User-made videos with the official song
- Official live performances
- Remixes
- Lyric videos
- Album songs
- Collaborations
Weekly Top Music Videos
The Weekly Top Music Videos chart highlights the most popular official music videos on the platform, based on view count.
Weekly Top Songs on Shorts
Top Songs on Shorts recognizes song performance within YouTube Shorts. Songs are ranked weekly, based on the total number of Shorts created that feature the song.
Learn more about YouTube Charts
Available locations
YouTube Charts is available to 61 countries or regions around the world:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Guatemala
- Germany
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Luxembourg
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- South Korea
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Turkey
- Uganda
- UK
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- US
- Zimbabwe
Expect more charts about your favorite songs and artists will roll out soon.
How are YouTube Charts calculated?
YouTube Charts break down the most viewed music on YouTube by song, video, artist, and Shorts.
- Top Song charts rank song performance on YouTube, based on overall view count. YouTube generates daily and weekly charts for Top Songs by combining official song views across the following video types:
- The official music video
- User-generated content that uses the official song
- Lyric videos
- Top Music Video charts rank official music performance by video view count. YouTube generates daily and weekly charts for Top Music Videos.
- Top Songs on Shorts rank the top 50 songs featured in Shorts. Songs are ranked based on the total number of Shorts created that feature the song. YouTube generates daily and weekly charts for Top Songs on Shorts.
- Weekly Top Artists ranks the top 100 artists by total views. An artist’s total views are based on the combined song views attributed to the artist on YouTube.
To make sure that YouTube Charts reflect the most relevant movements in music, songs that have been charting for a few months and do not show significant viewership growth may be removed from YouTube Charts per our policies.
Note: Paid advertising views on YouTube don’t count toward YouTube Charts.
YouTube Music Insights
Music Insights shows you what’s popular in cities and regions around the world. Use the Insights tool to view top artists in a given location, or to find out where an artist’s music is trending.
Music Insights ranks artists by combining the total view count across official songs, which includes:
- Official music videos
- User-generated videos containing the official song
- Lyric videos
Note: Shorts views are excluded from the total view count.
Charts information on YouTube Music
When a song is charting in Weekly Top Songs, and Daily or Weekly Top Songs on Shorts Charts, you’ll see its chart rank right next to the song title on YouTube Music.
Chart ranking is prioritized in the following order:
- Daily Top Songs on Shorts Chart
- Weekly Top Songs and Weekly Top Songs on Shorts Charts
Note: We're exploring new ways to show a song’s presence and reach on YouTube Music. You might notice some users seeing the Charts information, while others continue to see "plays" during this testing phase.
We’ll prioritize showing a song’s ranking in your country’s local charts.
- If the song is not charting in your country, we’ll show its position on the global chart.
- If the song is charting on both local and global charts, we’ll show the higher position of the two.
- If the song’s local and global chart positions are the same, we’ll show the global chart ranking.