Serena Joy is Olivia Rodrigo's Handmaid's Tale-inspired charity single, and Google Search interest just printed a series high in the week the 500-copy CD sold out. The keyword serena joy hit 8 for the week of August 22 2026, up from 2 on August 15 and 3 on July 25. Trends MCP records a series-derived +166.67% 30-day rise from 3 and a +100.0% 90-day rise from 4 on May 23. get_growth matches those weekly endpoints: +300.0% over 7 days (2 to 8) and +166.67% over 30 days (3 to 8). Billboard dates the Analog Music Shop CD to August 21 2026 and streaming to August 24. YouTube Trending ranked Olivia Rodrigo - serena joy (Audio) at 1 on August 24 2026 at 20:01 UTC. Data pulled August 24 2026 from source google search.
Serena Joy search interest right now
Google Search interest for serena joy sits at 8 for the week of August 22 2026, the peak of a 261-week series that opened at 1 on August 28 2021, after climbing from 3 on July 25 through 2 on August 15.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Latest value (week of August 22 2026) | 8 |
| 30-day change | +166.67% (3 on July 25 2026 to 8) |
| 90-day change | +100.0% (4 on May 23 2026 to 8) |
| Peak value and date | 8 on August 22 2026 |
| First seen date | August 28 2021 (value 1) |
get_growth on the same keyword prints recent value 8 on August 22 2026, matching the stored weekly series. The 7-day baseline on that call is 2 on August 15. A parallel YouTube time series for the same keyword printed 8 on August 22 from 0 on August 15, with get_growth returning the 999999 sentinel because the baseline is zero. The phrase is not in the August 24 2026 Google Trends top 50. It does lead YouTube Trending at 1, ahead of NCT 127's Blingy video at 4.
About Serena Joy
Serena Joy is a 3-minute 5-second Olivia Rodrigo charity single, stylized in lowercase, named for the Handmaid's Tale character who helps build a system that later traps her, and Billboard dates the 500-copy Analog Music Shop CD to August 21 2026. Wikipedia lists Dan Nigro as co-writer and producer and Interscope as the label. Billboard, retrieved August 24 2026, says Rodrigo recorded it for you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in June 2026, then left it off a tracklist that still includes Hot 100 No. 1 "Drop Dead" and top 10 singles "The Cure" and "Stupid Song". Etalk, cited by both Wikipedia and Billboard, quotes Rodrigo on July 2 2026: the album chronicled a relationship, and the song did not fit. Analog Music Shop in Tustin sold 500 CDs on August 21 2026, three days before streaming. Billboard says those copies sold out the same day and that a portion of net proceeds fund Daisy Chain Fields, the August 29 2026 all-women festival at Irvine's Great Park. Variety independently dates the CD run at 500 copies and the festival to the following Saturday.
What the time series shows
The stored 261-week Google Search series is a Handmaid's Tale character floor with one song spike on top, holding 1 to 6 for five years before printing 8 on August 22 2026, the week the CD sold out. Readings of 1 dominate 2021 through 2024, with local highs of 4 on September 24 2022, 3 on March 9 2024, and 6 on May 24 2025 while The Handmaid's Tale still drew searches. 2026 held 1 to 5 until August 15 printed 2, then August 22 printed 8. Derived labels from this series: growth exploding, speed exponential, seasonality medium, volatility average. The recent 30-day absolute change is 5 points (3 to 8) against a prior 30-day change of 0 points (3 on June 20 to 3), which is why speed reads exponential. Week-over-week percent changes have a standard deviation of 53.20%, the average volatility band. get_growth on YouTube for the same keyword prints 8 from a 0 baseline, so that 7-day and 30-day percent is stored as the 999999 sentinel rather than a real rate. The Google Search series is the chart source because it has a readable five-year baseline.
Related topics
get_growth pulls on August 24 2026 put nct 127 at +115.38% over 30 days, olivia rodrigo at -10.0%, the handmaid's tale at -16.67%, and the gentlemen at +100.0%, which is why the song query is rising while the artist's broader name is not. Same-day neighbors, with 30-day change where the call returned one:
- nct 127: +115.38% (13 to 28)
- olivia rodrigo: -10.0% (30 to 27)
- the handmaid's tale: -16.67% (18 to 15)
- the gentlemen: +100.0% (3 to 6)
- jonas brothers: growth not pulled this run
NCT 127 is the other August 24 2026 music release on the same YouTube board, with Blingy at rank 4. For the Google Search feed behind this page, see Google Trends.