A Short Guide on the Dos and Don’ts of Trending Audios

Don’t know which trending audio to use for your 15 seconds of fame on TikTok and Instagram? Here’s a guide of old, current and new songs to up your social media reach, as well as some tips on what to use and what not to use.

I’m Jess, and I’m a work experience student here at Destination Digital. All of this is just a bit of help and is solely my opinion, influenced by what’s trending on TikTok and Instagram right now, as well suggestions from others online. This blog is a part of my tasks for the week whilst I’m here on work experience, so this is something new for me, but anyway, let’s get started!

The song or sound you use all depends on the content you’re posting and who your target audience is. This blog will just give you a couple tips and tricks of what to do and how to do it.

It isn’t hard to go viral on TikTok, Leah Halton got 875M views on a video she simply lip-synced to, so, why can’t you do the same? So far in the last month, Sabrina Carpenter has made her mark with her song Espresso then Please Please Please. These two songs have stuck around for quite some time now, so it won’t be shocking if their reign remains. There are some artists that weren’t as lucky as her and they had a couple audios that fell just as quickly as they rose. Such audios are:

• Nasty – Tinashe: used as a dance.
• Yo Bunny – prodbycpkshawn & Ugly Andz.: used as a dance.
• Not Like Us – Kendrick Lamar: used for edits. It got famous because of the roast battle between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
• The Spark – Kabin Crew: is most famously a dance audio. It was written partly for Cruinniú na nÓg, the annual Irish celebration of youthful creativity, by a group of Irish students from the Cork suburb of Knocknaheeny – one of the Irish city’s most socially deprived areas.

I wouldn’t advise using any of these sounds as they already have so many users, so your videos would likely go unnoticed by the public unless you have some very special feature like a celebrity or something similar.

Anyways, out with the old and in with the new! Here’s what’s currently trending:

• MILLION DOLLAR BABY – Tommy Richman: this song is used as an all-rounder. You can lip-sync, dance, cook – whatever you feel! The song went viral on 26 April and has remained in the top 50 since. At this point, it is number 2 on TikTok’s Viral 50.
•  You look like you love me – Ella Langley & Riley Green: you just have to record something you love or that looks like it loves you (e.g. a pet staring lovingly at you) and you’ll be all set.
• Pink Lemonade (Str8 Reload) – LeoStayTrill & Mr Reload It: used as background music for random videos or lip-syncs.
• There is a song which was associated with a famous gnome (Crawly) which is also trending, however, the original song unfortunately got deleted so it cannot be added to this blog!

Using these sounds may guarantee you a couple likes, although I’m uncertain on the number of views and the extent of which it’ll go. Based on recent research, the next expected trending audios would be:

• Apple – Charli XCX: this is used as a dance and it is expected to become viral due to the already growing use of the sound.
• Double Life – Pharrell Williams: this is expected to go viral because of the release of the long awaited Despicable Me 4. The song has also been teased on TikTok in the trailer and so far it’s had a positive outcome. This would also likely be used in edits.
• A sound of a polish man shouting: this is expected to trend as many users can put this sound over their own video and claim they heard something funny. There’s already over 200 posts using the sound, with people just pretending they heard it. One got over 800k views after only 24 hours.
• Tupac Back (feat. Rick Ross) – Meek Hill & Rick Ross: this is becoming a trend as it’s being used as a meme and who doesn’t love a meme!

Instagram (most of the links will lead to the video with the song more suited to this)

Most of the sounds that go viral on Instagram tend to have moved across from TikTok. However, there are some sounds that are significant to each platform depending on the audience. On Instagram, you often find less videos of people lip-syncing, as this is something TikTok’s users do more of due to its predominantly younger demographic.

Here’s some past trending sounds on Instagram:

• Bliss – Adam Griffith: this song is used to show or advertise products/services.
• Fine Line (Sped Up) – ciaffa: used as a background sound for videos.
• ASTRO (Slowed Opium Remix) – Slowboy, zaichkou888, IVOXYGEN & nocap beats: this was mostly used for edits of cars or for more masculine-based content.

And here’s what’s currently trending on Instagram:

• Chinhi – Dylan Hart: used for makeup routines that transition between the different steps.
• Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) – Baddiel, Skinner & Lightening Seeds: this is trending because England made it to the Euros final. The continued fame of it may vary depending on the outcome the game.
• Personal (feat. Yuki Chiba) – Swell Sound: this is used for brand advertisements as well as fan edits.

Also, here’s what I predict to trend soon!

• Apple – Charli XCX: so far, this song has been more popular on Instagram than TikTok, so we’ll see if it moves across!
• Vossi Bop – Stormzy: another potential trending sound that could be used. This song doesn’t have many videos attached to it at the moment, but recent posts to it are gaining thousands of likes.
• Summer Solstice – Melody Musings: this is another one used as a background sound for videos.
• 6 In The Morning [Majestic Remix] (feat. Nate Dogg) – Flex (UK) & Majestic: once again, another background song that works well with that party summer vibe.

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