YouTube's hottest videos right now: August 21, 2026
Belly Gang Kushington's No Jewelry official video is YouTube's #1 title on August 21, 2026, one day after Hip-Hop Vibe dated the Rockstar Colt clip to August 20 and Audiomack listed the LVRN Records track around August 18-19. The clip rose from #4 on the August 20 Trends MCP board, passing BIGBANG's BiiiG video, which slips to #4. Trends MCP stored 10 videos at 08:01 UTC. New versus yesterday: Fortnite Season 4 at #6 and CARITA FELIZ at #10.
Top trending videos on YouTube: August 21
The August 21 YouTube cut is split between new rap videos, Marvel trailer explainers, a Markiplier indie playthrough and two same-day game trailers. These 10 ranks come from the Trends MCP snapshot.
Belly Gang Kushington - No Jewelry (Official Music Video): Atlanta rapper Belly Gang Kushington's second 2026 video, directed by Rockstar Colt, leads the board. Trends MCP
get_growthon youtube for "Belly Gang Kushington" measured +9.84% over 7 days and +36.73% over 30 days as of August 15, with the recent normalized value at 67.The HUGE DETAIL We Missed About Doctor Doom in the Avengers Doomsday Trailer!: A trailer-breakdown channel still sits at #2, the same rank as August 20, as fans pick apart Destin Daniel Cretton-era Doom footage. Trends MCP
get_growthfor "Avengers Doomsday" on youtube showed +147.06% over 7 days and +600% over 30 days, with the recent value at 42 versus 17 a week earlier.BEST GAME IN YEARS | Endacopia: Markiplier's playthrough of AndyLand's July 27 Steam horror-adventure holds #3 after dropping from #2 yesterday. CreatorDB listed about 1.1 million views on the upload, while
get_growthfor "Endacopia" on youtube logged +7.53% over 7 days and +2400% over 30 days as the term went from 4 to 100 on the 0-100 scale.BIGBANG - ‘BiiiG’ M/V: The K-pop group's music video falls from #1 on August 20 to #4. No new release dated August 21 was found; the clip is a second-day hold rather than a fresh drop.
Avengers Doomsday Opening Scene & Trailer Breakdown: A second Doom explainer sits at #5, stacking with rank 2. The pair shows trailer forensics outlasting the initial upload window on the YouTube trending API board.
Fortnite SEASON 4 Is Here! (New Sprites, Collabs, Mythics): Chapter 7 Season 4 Override launched August 20 with Sonic, Mega Man, Crash and Persona crossovers after Epic's August 16 trailer. The recap is new to today's top 10.
VonOff1700 - Hood Legends (Official Video): The Chicago drill clip stays on the board after a late-August 19 posting noted by Siccness. It moved from #7 yesterday with no rank change.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Multiplayer Trailer: Infinity Ward's nearly 3-minute multiplayer trailer, dated August 20 by GamingBolt, sits at #8 ahead of a closed beta that coverage said starts August 21. The title was #5 yesterday.
🔴LIVE | ESCAPE FROM TARKOV | TimTheTatMan X HutchMF | SEAL TEAM SEXY | #BUNGULATE: The TimTheTatMan co-stream remains a live fixture at #9, down from #6 on August 20. No separate news trigger beyond the scheduled broadcast was identified.
CARITA FELIZ: Myke Towers' Warner Music Latina single and Clara Galle short film, released August 20, enter at #10. Diario Libre and LOS40 dated the melodic reggaeton drop to that morning, citing more than 42 million monthly Spotify listeners for the Puerto Rican artist.
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What changed on YouTube since yesterday
Eight of yesterday's ten titles remain. BIGBANG loses the top slot. Two game trailers rearrange, and a Latin single replaces Black Myth: Zhong Kui and Cazzu.
| Change | Details |
|---|---|
| New entrants | Fortnite SEASON 4 Is Here! (#6); CARITA FELIZ (#10) |
| Big movers (5+ ranks) | Belly Gang Kushington, #4 to #1 (up 3, under the 5-rank cutoff) |
| Drop-offs from August 20 top 10 | Black Myth: Zhong Kui – 15 Minutes Gameplay Trailer (#8); Cazzu - Noches de Latinaje (#10) |
What today's YouTube trends reveal
Same-week music videos are taking the chart from K-pop's holdover. No Jewelry at #1 and Hood Legends at #7 are 48-hour-old rap clips, while CARITA FELIZ at #10 is a day-old Latin drop. BIGBANG at #4 is the only returning idol video.
Marvel and live-service games share the rest of the board. Two Doomsday breakdowns occupy #2 and #5, Fortnite Override sits at #6 the morning after launch, and Modern Warfare 4's multiplayer trailer is #8 on beta day. Endacopia at #3 is the outlier: a July 27 Steam game still converting a large YouTuber playthrough into Friday views.
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These ranks came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends API on August 21, 2026. The feed is for creators and media teams who need the public YouTube board with a timestamp. Source notes live on the YouTube trending API page.
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