Trending Charts YouTube

What are Trending Charts on YouTube?

Trending Charts on YouTube are daily charts that spotlight the most popular content across the platform. Charts vary by category, such as Trending Movie Trailers, Trending Music Videos and Trending Gaming Videos. They are not personalised, so every viewer in the same country sees the same chart, and they refresh roughly every 30 minutes.

Why Trending Charts matter for creators

A spot on a chart puts a video in front of people who have never seen the channel, which can add views and subscribers fast. Because charts are not personalised, they work differently from the home feed and suggested videos that the YouTube algorithm builds for each viewer. YouTube doesn't accept payment for placement on trending charts and doesn't favour specific creators, so there is nothing to buy — only content that grows quickly.

How a video gets ranked on Charts

Trending Charts aim to surface videos that:

• Are relevant to the topic of the chart

• Are growing quickly

• Are not misleading, clickbaity, or sensational

• Showcase a diversity of creators

To balance these considerations, charts consider many signals, including but not limited to:

• View count

• How quickly the video's view count (or "temperature") is growing

• Where views are coming from, including outside of YouTube

• The topic of the videos

• The age of the video

• How the video performs compared to other recent uploads from the same channel

The signals are combined automatically, so the video with the highest view count on a given day may not be number 1, and videos with more views may sit below videos with fewer views. Views from YouTube ads are not counted when measuring videos for trending charts. YouTube also filters out excessive profanity, mature content or violence. The full rules are on the official Help page.

How to find Charts on YouTube

Open YouTube and select Explore in the navigation menu. Explore holds destination pages for popular categories — Gaming, News, Music, Movies, Fashion & Beauty, Courses or Learning, Sports, Podcasts and Shopping — and the categories shown vary by location and device. From there you can open Charts for Podcasts, Movie Trailers and Music Videos. If one of your videos suddenly spikes, your traffic sources report shows where the extra views actually came from, and our guide on finding trending topics on YouTube covers how to spot a wave before it peaks.