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How to Find Trends on TikTok: Sounds, Hashtags and Videos

The most reliable way to find TikTok trends is TikTok's free Creative Center: open its Trends section and browse the top hashtags, songs, creators and videos by country, over the last 7, 30 or 120 days.

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The most reliable way to find TikTok trends is TikTok’s free Creative Center: open its Trends section and browse the top hashtags, songs, creators and videos by country, over the last 7, 30 or 120 days. Inside the app, watch for the same sound or format repeating on your For You feed, and check the trending searches that appear when you open search.

A trend on TikTok is a sound, hashtag, format or topic that many people use at once, usually for a few days to a few weeks. This hub covers each way to spot one and links to a guide for sounds, hashtags and products. Every other TikTok guide starts from how to search on TikTok. Using a sound once you find it is covered in how to download a TikTok sound and how to add your own sound to TikTok.

TikTok Creative Center is a free website that ranks what’s popular on TikTok, and most of its trend pages work without logging in. Listed below are the 5 steps.

  1. Open TikTok Creative Center in a browser.
  2. Go to Trends.
  3. Choose what to rank: hashtags, songs, creators or videos.
  4. Set your country, and an industry where offered.
  5. Pick a time window of 7, 30 or 120 days.

The 7-day view shows what’s rising now; 30 and 120 days show what has staying power. Each ranked item has a curve showing whether it’s still climbing.

TikTok trends come in 5 kinds, and each has its own best place to look. The table maps them.

Trend type Where to find it Guide
Sounds and songs Creative Center songs ranking, the Sounds tab in search How to find trending sounds on TikTok
Hashtags Creative Center hashtags ranking, the hashtag pages in search How to use hashtags on TikTok
Video formats Your For You feed, Creative Center top videos This page
Creators Creative Center creators ranking This page
Products TikTok Shop and product hashtags How to find trending products on TikTok

To find trending hashtags, open the hashtags ranking in Creative Center and filter by country, industry and time window; the “new to top 100” filter shows the ones that just broke in. In the app, search a topic and open the hashtags tab to see related tags and their view counts. How many hashtags to add, and which kinds, is covered in how to use hashtags on TikTok.

In the app, a trend shows itself through repetition: the same sound, caption pattern or edit appearing on your For You feed from unrelated accounts within a day or two. Listed below are the 4 in-app signals.

  • A sound you keep hearing: tap it to see how many videos use it.
  • Trending searches: open search and read the suggestions under the bar.
  • The same format from different creators, such as a shared joke structure or transition.
  • Rising hashtags on videos that are new but already have high view counts.

Creators can also see what people are searching for in TikTok Studio’s search insights.

Most TikTok trends peak within a week or two, while formats and evergreen sounds can last for months. That’s why the 7-day view matters: by the time a trend tops a 120-day chart, the early wave is usually over. Using a trend while it’s still rising, not after it peaks, is what gets the reach.

Business accounts can only use sounds from TikTok’s Commercial Music Library, which is cleared for commercial use and leaves out many chart songs. In Creative Center, the songs ranking has a filter for tracks approved for business use. This matters for brands: a trending song a personal account can use may not be available to them.

Rankings tell you what’s trending; collecting the videos tells you why. apidojo’s TikTok Scraper on Apify collects every video for a hashtag, sound or keyword, with views, likes, shares, upload time and the sound used, so you can see how fast a trend is growing and which videos are driving it (Apify).

{
  "keywords": ["get ready with me"],
  "sortType": "DATE_POSTED",
  "location": "US",
  "maxItems": 1000
}

It costs $0.30 per 1,000 posts. Checking trends on a schedule instead of once is covered in how to monitor TikTok trends with an API.

Questions people ask

Is TikTok Creative Center free?

Yes, Creative Center is free, and its trend pages can be browsed without an ad account.

How do you find trends in your niche?

Filter Creative Center by industry and country, then search your niche's keywords in the app and sort by date.

How do you know if a trend is still rising?

Check its curve in Creative Center and how many of its videos were posted in the last few days.

Can you see trends from other countries?

Yes, change the country filter in Creative Center.

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