Rolling Stone

The Rolling Stone Trending 25 ranks new songs that are seeing the greatest gains in popularity each week, measured by percentage growth in audio streams. Rather than simply tallying the biggest songs, the Trending chart offers a truly in-the-moment view of music by highlighting tracks picking up the most momentum, week over week. The greater a song’s percentage of growth in streams compared to the previous week, the higher the position on the chart. Because the chart focuses on newer music, eligible songs must have been released in the past three years and have reached a certain threshold of consumption (popularity) at the start of the measuring period. Each week, Rolling Stone publishes an official version of the Trending 25 chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday. To read more about our methodology, including our weighting practices, visit our General Methodology.