Google Play has no public API for its top charts. SerpApi and a few data vendors resell them; the Play Store web app itself reads them from an internal RPC, and that is what everyone else ends up reading too. It is fast (a 100-app chart in well under a second) and it has one behaviour worth knowing before you trust a single row of it.

The charts there are

Five lists answer for any country and category:

Chart What it ranks

Top Free downloads, free apps

Top Paid downloads, paid apps

Top Grossing revenue

Trending Google's "movers and shakers": what is rising fastest right now

Top New Free recently released free apps

Each goes up to 200 apps (Top New Free runs shorter in small markets). Trending is the one most people miss, and it is not a reshuffle of Top Free: of the top 100 in the US on 2026-10-18 the two shared 7 apps. Top New Free shared 1.…