How we track YouTube's charts
viralshooter reads YouTube's most-popular charts in 20 regions, keeps the videos that chart, and follows their numbers. Here is what we cover and how.
Videos tracked
23K
Channels
19K
Chart regions
20
Short videos (3 min or less)
78%
Coverage by region
| Region | Videos charting | Charts last read |
|---|---|---|
| United States1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Canada1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| South Korea1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Japan1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| United Kingdom1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Taiwan1 hour ago | 1K | 1 hour ago |
| Vietnam1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Thailand1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Indonesia1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Germany1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| France1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Brazil1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| India1 hour ago | 1K | 1 hour ago |
| Mexico1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Spain1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Philippines1 hour ago | 1K | 1 hour ago |
| Australia1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Türkiye1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
| Italy1 hour ago | 1K | 1 hour ago |
| Saudi Arabia1 hour ago | 2K | 1 hour ago |
A video can chart in several regions, so the region counts add up to more than the total.
How often we update
- Charts: every region's most-popular chart and its category charts, about every 6 hours.
- Views, likes and comments: hourly for videos published in the last 2 days, every few hours for big videos (200K+ views) of the past week, and daily for the rest of the last 30 days.
- Each video's and channel's full YouTube record: refreshed within 30 days.
What comes from YouTube, and what is ours
From the YouTube Data API
Titles, channels, views, likes, comments, subscribers, publish dates, durations, categories, tags, languages and regions as YouTube declares them. Shown as returned, never edited.
Calculated by viralshooter
Where and how high a video charted in the regions we read, its age, views per hour and the change since our last reading. Marked ◆ wherever they appear.
How long we keep data
YouTube's API rules let us store its data for up to 30 days unless we refresh it. We refresh the videos we still track and delete the rest within 30 days, so older videos drop off the board.