YouTube top trending this week (week of May 16, 2026)

SPIDER-MAN BRAND NEW DAY TRAILER: Sadie Sink, Hulk & Things You Missed! still sits near the top of YouTube Trending beside PGA Championship - Round 1 coverage, so franchise trailer culture and major golf highlights share the same shelf. Fifteen YouTube Trending rows and eight Google Play free chart titles below come from one Trends MCP capture timed for desks that compare video spikes with Android install demand.

Top trending videos on YouTube (May 16)

  1. Make Them Cry: Music row traffic tied to the ongoing Drake and Iceman release cycle that also filled Trending during the prior day.
  2. SPIDER-MAN BRAND NEW DAY TRAILER: Sadie Sink, Hulk & Things You Missed!: Explainer upload riding Marvel and Sony’s July 31, 2026 theatrical date for Spider-Man: Brand New Day and the official trailer wave.
  3. PGA Championship - Round 1: Tournament highlights and coverage from the 108th PGA Championship at Aronimink, where Round 1 finished May 14, 2026 with a crowded leaderboard story.
  4. Gracie Abrams - Hit the Wall (Official Music Video): New official music video inventory on the trending pop shelf.
  5. Welcome To The Jungle - Official Teaser | In Cinemas | 26th June 2026: Bollywood action teaser views ahead of the listed June 26, 2026 cinema date.
  6. FOX and Friends: Cable morning show clip or segment upload trending with other news adjacent inventory.
  7. Shakira, Burna Boy - Dai Dai (Official Audio): Official audio for the collaboration, pulling Latin pop and Afrobeats audiences in parallel.
  8. Montreal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres: NHL game highlights or broadcast adjacent upload in the sports lane.
  9. Becky G - EPA (Official Video): Latin pop official video momentum on the music shelf.
  10. IT'S BEAUTIFUL | Subnautica 2 - Part 1: Creator Let’s Play demand after Unknown Worlds shipped Subnautica 2 early access on May 14, 2026.
  11. Evanescence – Who Will You Follow (Official Music Video): New official video tied to the Sanctuary album campaign after the May 15, 2026 upload window.
  12. Live From the PGA Championship: Supplemental PGA Championship programming or live style coverage beside the main Round 1 highlight row.
  13. Grupo Niche - Gotas de Lluvia (Letra): Salsa lyrics video traffic on the Spanish language music shelf.
  14. LA Chargers Halo Schedule Release 2026: NFL schedule release creative tied to the Chargers’ themed promotional clip.
  15. No Stars in Maybachs: Another Iceman era Drake title on Trending beside Make Them Cry during the same album rollout window.

The full list of 50 trending videos is available via the Trends MCP API. Get your free API key →

What today's YouTube trends reveal

Spider-Man trailer explainers, PGA Championship Round 1 uploads, and Live From the PGA Championship cluster together, so sports rights footage and film marketing share oxygen with music videos. Make Them Cry and No Stars in Maybachs keep two related Drake titles inside the top fifteen, which signals sustained album cycle demand rather than a single viral clip.

IT'S BEAUTIFUL | Subnautica 2 - Part 1 and UFC 6 Official Gameplay Deep Dive (rank 32 in the full fifty row pull) show games marketing and creator commentary still punching at the same weight as chart pop. Spanish language inventory such as Grupo Niche - Gotas de Lluvia (Letra) and Becky G - EPA (Official Video) sit beside Shakira, Burna Boy - Dai Dai (Official Audio), so multilingual music formats remain a structural part of the shelf, not a fringe lane.

Cable and news adjacent uploads (FOX and Friends, The Source With Kaitlan Collins at rank 22 in the full pull) continue to appear beside entertainment, which fits YouTube’s habit of mixing hard news clips with culture inventory during heavy news weeks.

Also trending: Google Play on May 16

Google Play’s free chart in the same capture skews toward messaging, video, and evergreen mobile games, which gives a simple Android demand baseline next to the YouTube shelf.

  1. WhatsApp Messenger: Meta’s default messaging install in many markets.
  2. Facebook: Core social app demand on Android free charts.
  3. YouTube: Google’s video app as a perennial install leader.
  4. Instagram: Photo and short video social inventory beside TikTok’s adjacent rank.
  5. Free Fire: Undersea Mystery: Garena battle royale update lane traffic on the games shelf.
  6. Messenger: Meta chat app installs that often move with Facebook and WhatsApp clusters.
  7. Flipkart Online Shopping App: India e commerce app gravity on the regional free list.
  8. TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE: ByteDance short video client demand mirrored by a second TikTok listing deeper in the fifty row pull.

Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP

The ranked lines above were pulled with the Trends MCP get_top_trends endpoint, which returns the current leader board for each supported platform without manual keyword entry. Product teams, editors, and analysts can repeat the same call on a schedule and diff ranks over time. The Google Play data source page documents how this chart maps to API fields on https://trendsmcp.ai/app-download-trends.

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