To find trending Reels sounds, pick a language and a country and press Show sounds. You get the fifteen sounds the most creators used in Reels this week, with how many Reels used each one this week and over 90 days and their median views: the first five open, the other ten with a free Spytrend account. Below them are up to four sounds breaking out: used much faster this week than over the last 30 days.
How to use it
How to find trending sounds on Instagram Reels: four ways
Use the list above
Pick a language and a country and press Show sounds. The page opens on a ready list; your first lookup is free, no sign-up.
Watch the Breaking out cards
They catch sounds that are still small but picking up speed, before the big list does.
Check the arrow in the Reels editor
When you add audio to a Reel, Instagram marks some sounds with an upward arrow. It is a quick signal, but it does not say who uses a sound or where.
Open the sound in Instagram
Search the sound by name in the Reels audio picker and open its page: you see the Reels made with it and how they look.
Compare two countries before you pick: a sound already at the top in one market is often only starting in the next.
One language in one country: the sounds the most different creators used in their Reels over the last 7 days.
What makes a sound trending
The sounds the most creators picked up this week
Ranking by creators, not by Reels, keeps one account that posts the same sound fifty times from topping the list. A sound shows up once at least three creators in that language and country used it in at least three Reels.
Language is the language a creator writes captions in; country is the main audience market of the creator’s account, not where the creator lives.
What each number means:
- Reels (7 days). How many Reels used the sound in the last 7 days.
- Reels (90 days). The same count over 90 days, which tells a new sound from one that has been around for months.
- Median views. The views of the middle Reel that used the sound, so one viral Reel does not inflate it. A dash means too few views to tell.
- Pace. In Breaking out: a sound’s use per day this week against its use per day over the last 30 days. Only sounds at 1.5× or faster are shown.
A sound with few Reels and a high pace is the one to catch early.
Ways to use them
Ride a sound while it climbs — then move to the next one
Boost organic reach. Pair a Reel you were going to post anyway with a sound that is still rising in your market.
Brief a content team. Hand creators a short list of rising sounds for the week, filtered to the language they post in.
Post for a second audience. If you post in two languages or for viewers in another country, read which sounds creators there use and how far apart their top is from yours.
Time a release. Musicians and labels can see where a track is picking up and which language its creators write in.
Best practices
Match the sound to the Reel, and move within days
Move within days of a sound rising. A sound that many creators already use is crowded; the reach goes to those who come early.
Match the sound to your content, not the other way around. A Reel built around an unrelated trend reads as forced and loses viewers.
Use the original sound, not a re-upload, so your Reel joins the sound’s page with everyone else’s.
Watch the pace, not only the count. A big number can mean a sound is already past its peak.
Check licensing before you use a sound in an ad. A trending sound in an organic Reel is not cleared for paid use.
Limits
Free version limits
Your first lookup is free, no sign-up. Leave your email for one more, then create a free Spytrend account: it opens Content AI video search with a daily limit and the top of its sound ranking, and Content AI plans add the full ranking, each sound’s breakdown, tracking and more searches.
The list the page opens on is free to read. The Trending now table shows fifteen sounds: the first five in full and the next ten blurred until you sign up for a free Spytrend account. Breaking out shows up to four sounds.
Go further with Spytrend
The sounds speeding up across Reels and YouTube
This page ranks the sounds of one language in one country.
Spytrend’s Content AI finds the Reels and Shorts that beat their creator’s usual views in your niche, breaks down their hooks and sounds, and tracks the accounts you follow. Its Audio Trends ranks the sounds of Reels and YouTube and marks the new ones and the ones speeding up.
What Audio Trends adds
- Whether a sound is still climbing. Audio Trends ranks sounds over a week, a month or three months, so you see whether a sound is starting, peaking or fading before you build a Reel on it.
- Which formats break out in your niche. Search your topic in Video Search and put the sound on a format that is already breaking out.
How to start
Create a free account and open Audio Trends. A free Spytrend account opens Content AI video search with a daily limit and the top of its sound ranking; Content AI plans add the full ranking, each sound’s breakdown, tracking and more searches.