TikTok trends October 2026, week one: K-pop dances, anatomy class and movie clips

TikTok trends October 2026, week one, in a line: K-pop dances, anatomy homework and old movie clips. The fastest-rising real search from 29 September to 5 October was kpop tiktok dances, up 447% to 564,143, with cute kpop dances right behind it, up 388%. The biggest search was moviescenes at 1,542,254. The surprise: nursing students. a&p 1 study tips rose 330% to 284,428, and only 366 videos answer it.

Every number below is TikTok's own search figure for 29 September to 5 October 2026, pulled through TokConnect. The full data is here if you want to check our work.

The big three: two K-pop searches and an anatomy class

Both K-pop searches moved in two jumps: one on 30 September and a bigger one on the last day. Daily readings this size swing hard, so read the shape, not any single day.

1. kpop tiktok dances, up 447%

kpop tiktok dances started the week at 103,189 and finished at 564,143. It is the second-biggest real search we track. It almost tripled on 30 September, eased for two days, then rose on each of the last three, with the final day alone up 75%. It has 1,185 matching videos.

No clear cause: the top videos dance to a TUIDE song, a KATSEYE random-dance quiz and a LE SSERAFIM routine, not one new release. Meanwhile Kpop dance trend, the headliner two issues ago, fell 24%. Our read: people stopped asking what the trend is and started asking for the dances.

The video to make is a random-dance quiz: ten K-pop choruses in a row, the song name on screen for each, and the viewer counts how many they know. The second most-played video for this search is a KATSEYE random-dance quiz.

2. cute kpop dances, up 388%

cute kpop dances went from 60,969 to 297,751, with 1,018 videos. It jumped to 252,173 on 30 September, slid to 43,078 by 2 October, then climbed every day after. No clear cause here either. The most-played video for it is a dance to aespa's "Lemonade" from May, with 14,436,798 plays. Our read: people are digging up old favourites, not chasing one new song.

"Cute" suggests short point dances you can learn sitting down. The two most-played videos here are both under 19 seconds. Film the chorus once slowly, once at full speed, and stop.

3. a&p 1 study tips, up 330%

a&p 1 study tips rose from 66,106 to 284,428, and only 366 videos match, the fewest of the top three. A&P 1 is the first anatomy and physiology class, and the top videos for it are tagged #prenursing and #nursingstudent. Its line is messy: a dip to 1,500 on 1 October, a fall to 92,409 on Sunday 4 October, then a jump of 208% on Monday.

No clear cause in the news. Our read: first exams of the term are close, and a Monday spike looks like students planning their week. If you passed the class, film "five things I wish I had memorised before my first A&P exam", one per screen, with the bone or muscle names written in text so TikTok search can read them. Keep it near a minute.

Also rising: MovieMoments, up 241% to 302,448, and it's not anime it's anime, up 225% with just 241 videos.

TikTok's topic labels: a football verdict and a lemon grove

TikTok also writes its own topic labels, which fold many searches into one phrase. A note first: delores hotdog bun shows up again as a 1,852% riser, but its seven readings match last week's number for number. TikTok has not refreshed that topic, so we have left it out.

The real winner is lemon place amalfi coast, up 1,325%. It stayed small for five days, hit 15,036,378 on 4 October and ended at 7,882,556. No clear cause.

man city punishment rose 841% to 6,305,707, with only 225 videos. This one has a cause. Manchester City were reportedly found guilty on 114 of 115 Premier League financial charges in late September, and no punishment has been decided. The topic jumped to 4,075,176 on 30 September and rose on each of the last three days. Our read: a plain-words explainer on what could happen next has the field nearly to itself.

what happens if a snake bites itself jumped on the last day alone, from 309,892 to 4,924,576. Hair Tutorials did the same, from 499,049 to 5,210,720. And ktothemartrc rollercoaster rose 712% to 13,342,695, peaking at 15,885,632 on 3 October. No clear cause for any of the three.

Watch: the videos that won the week

The most-played video for each of the three big risers. Tap one to load it.

Look at the saves. The A&P video has 25,428 saves on 272,066 plays, more saves than the top K-pop video gets from 3,536,017 plays. Our read: people save study tips for the night before the exam, which is what saves reward.

The biggest real searches on TikTok this week

TikTok search popularity on the last reading of the week, and the change from the first reading. Source: weekly snapshot.

moviescenes is bigger than the next three searches put together, and it peaked at 1,764,976 on Saturday 3 October. Film searches hold three of the eight spots, K-pop dances two and makeup two. Our read: longer nights, familiar films.

What faded

Kpop dance trend fell 24% from 281,015 to 213,935 while the rest of K-pop rose. with makeup and no makeup slipped 18% to 282,771. And Amazon Prime Day Must Haves dipped 11% to 261,221, the day before Amazon's October sale starts on 6 October. Our read: the list-making happened last week.

Free idea of the week: toyota sequoia 2027

TikTok flags toyota sequoia 2027 as a content gap: a topic of 25,053,666 on TikTok's figure with only 1,033 matching videos. Toyota showed the refreshed SUV in July, with a new Trailhunter package and a 14-inch screen on every trim, and said full details would come closer to the start of production this fall.

• Hook: "The 2027 Sequoia looks the same until you sit inside. Here is what Toyota changed."
• Format: stand next to the current Sequoia (any dealer lot works) and walk through the changes one by one: front end, screen, the Trailhunter package. Say the model name out loud and on screen.
• Length: 45 to 60 seconds. End on who should wait for the 2027 and who should buy now.

Last week's idea, wrangler vs gladiator, went from 734 to 795 videos. The bigger rows with no videos at all are TikTok's own featured content or about people and a school we could not identify, so we leave them alone.

TikTok's biggest topic in each category

• Vehicles: "police officer the final part 3 review car", 25,884,351, up 138%. The biggest category leader of the week; no clear cause.
• Sports: "sports sydeny sweeny ad" (TikTok's spelling), 14,026,206, down 9% after peaking at 51,825,740 on 1 October. It points at Sydney Sweeney's ad for the prediction market Novig, which drew criticism from female athletes in September. The ad is older than the 1 October peak, so the peak itself has no clear cause.
• Food: "trying the viral lunch trend locally", 13,858,540, up 150%. It rose on five of the week's six day-to-day moves.
• Anime and games: "verity is from minecraft", 10,982,506, down 39%. Last week it was up 838%.

Hashtag of the week: #football

With Manchester City all over search, #football is the tag. It has 2,567,246,005,727 lifetime views on 86,498,379 videos. #Comedy has more views, 3,011,366,790,420, but over 929,126,113 videos, so #football gets about nine times as many views per video. It is still too big to help one video get found. Pick smaller tags with our hashtag generator.

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Want it daily? What's trending on TikTok today updates every morning. For a single category, see the dance, sports, travel and fashion trend pages. Missed last week? Read the 24 to 30 September issue.