Rod Wave's I Am official audio is rank 1 on YouTube on August 29, 2026, the morning after Don't Look Down, a 24-track album, landed on Alamo Records. Marvel's Wolverine Game Features Trailer for PS5 is rank 2 ahead of a September 15 launch at $69.99. Versus August 27, the Miley and Dolly catalog clip that led that board is gone; so are Avengers Endgame Encore and Grain Rot. Three GTA 6 videos sit at ranks 3, 5, and 6 after Rockstar's 26-minute Extended Look hit YouTube at 9 p.m. ET on August 27. YouTube growth for GTA 6 through August 22 was +250 percent over 7 days and +366.67 percent over 30 days.
Top trending videos on YouTube: August 29
Rod Wave - I Am (Official Audio): Track 2 on Don't Look Down, released August 28 with 24 digital songs (20 on vinyl and CD). iHeart and Complex listed features from Summer Joy, Luv Von, Hazlett, and Aimee Carty. YouTube 7D growth for the search string through August 22 was -16.67 percent (10.0 versus 12.0) with 30D at +25 percent, which predates the upload.
Marvel's Wolverine - Game Features Trailer | PS5 Games: Insomniac features trailer covering Rage combat, Adaptations, New Game Plus on day one, and a gore toggle. Push Square and GamingBolt dated launch to September 15, 2026 as a PS5 exclusive at $69.99. YouTube growth on a longer trailer string was a 0.0 index with a low-quality warning, so it is omitted.
GTA 6: Every New Gameplay Feature & Mechanic YOU MISSED: Recap of Rockstar's Extended Look. PCMag said the 26-minute film premiered on Netflix at 3 p.m. ET August 27, then YouTube six hours later. GTA 6 is due November 19 at $79.99 on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
La Perversa - Mona (Video Oficial): Official video from the Dominican artist. Kworb's U.S. music-video snapshot listed the clip among new August 29 YouTube entries. No separate news file beyond the upload itself was found.
CaseOh Reacts To GTA 6 Extended Trailer: Streamer Case Dylan Baker reacting to the same Extended Look. The clip sits inside the GTA 6 cluster at ranks 3, 5, and 6 rather than as a separate news event.
GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto 6) - Official Extended Gameplay: Rockstar's official upload of Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, captured on PS5. The Verge timed the YouTube post after the Netflix window. The standard edition is $79.99.
AZ Chike - Look Like My Mama ft. Tyler, The Creator: New official audio/video featuring Tyler, the Creator. Kworb listed it among new U.S. trending music videos. No widely reported extra trigger beyond the release was found.
Pokemon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu | Teaser Trailer: Stop-motion series from The Pokemon Company International and Aardman. A teaser premiered August 28 at Pokemon XP in San Francisco (50,000 fans). Disney+ is the worldwide streaming home, with a 2027 debut, per Polygon and the official press site.
water is no longer safe: Title as returned by the board. No widely reported news trigger identified for August 29, 2026.
FALLEN ANGEL: Matches JENNIE's FALLEN ANGEL official video, which Kworb also listed among new U.S. trending clips. No separate news conference or chart milestone was attached in the fetches used here.
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What changed on YouTube since August 27
New entrants: all 10 titles are new versus August 27.
Drop-offs: Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton Wrecking Ball / I Will Always Love You (was 1), Avengers Endgame: Encore (was 2), Grain Rot (was 3), Dolly Parton I Will Always Love You lyrics (was 4), Love Island USA Season 8 Reunion (was 5), The Life of a DIAMOND in Minecraft (was 6), Taylor Swift Icon Sessions (was 7), Escape From Playtime (was 8), Roblox ASMR TOWER (was 9), BIG30 First Day Back (was 10).
What today's YouTube board reveals
The board flipped from a Dolly memorial plus Marvel encore on August 27 to a music-and-games Friday. Rod Wave at 1 is a same-night album. GTA 6 occupies three of the top six slots because the Extended Look left Netflix exclusivity. Wolverine at 2 is a features trailer, not a story trailer, 17 days before launch.
Pokemon at 8 is a convention teaser, not a launch. The two titles without a sourced news file sit at 9 and 10. Recurring catalog clips did not survive the turnover.
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This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends feed for YouTube Trending with limit 10 as of 2026-08-29T02:01:36.626516+00:00. The matching data source page is YouTube Trending API.
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