'Stereo Love Funk' Song: Cotneus's Edward Maya Edit Is Back on 15 Shorts Charts

Cotneus, PVNZER and Kngmn made the 'Stereo Love Funk' that YouTube counts on its Shorts charts: 'STEREO LOVE FUNK', a 77-second funk edit released on 20 May 2026. It takes 'Stereo Love', the 2009 dance hit by the Romanian producer Edward Maya and the singer Vika Jigulina, the one with the accordion riff, and puts it to a new beat.

Plenty of other tracks share the title. On 27 October Apple Music listed tracks called 'Stereo Love Funk' by 14 different acts and Deezer by 24, Cotneus included, many of them with their own slowed and sped-up versions. Cotneus's listing on YouTube says it was supplied by Ultra Nation and credits Eduard Marian Ilie, Edward Maya's real name, as composer and lyricist, with Victoria Corneva as co-lyricist.

'Stereo Love Funk' on YouTube Shorts: a hit that came back

YouTube publishes a daily Shorts chart for 22 countries and the world, ranking the songs heard under the most Shorts. On 25 October Cotneus's 'STEREO LOVE FUNK' was on 15 of the 22 national lists and the worldwide one: fourth in the Philippines, tenth in Germany, 12th in Australia, 17th in Britain, 18th in Brazil and 26th worldwide, with places in Argentina, Indonesia, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Vietnam, Canada, Colombia, the United States and France.

It was a return. The song first reached a national Shorts chart in Mexico on 9 September, at 44th for a single day, and entered Germany's two days later, where it stayed. It climbed to third on the worldwide list on 9 and 10 October, and on 13 October was on 19 national lists, No. 1 in Australia, Brazil, Germany and the Philippines. On 14 October it was left only in the Philippines and Australia, and from 15 to 23 October it was on no Shorts chart at all; YouTube does not say why. On 24 October it was back on four lists, and a day later on 15.

It has not crossed over into ordinary listening. Spotify's country charts for 25 October, the newest available, did not list it anywhere, and neither did Shazam's 70 national top 100s on 27 October. In Google, people add dance, trend, song, lyrics, ringtone download, slowed and '1 hour' to the title. They heard the sound under someone else's video and want the track, a longer loop of it or the steps.

Which 'Stereo Love Funk' is the original: M3rih, Vynth or Cotneus?

None of them, strictly, since every version borrows the riff of the 2009 recording. The funk idea is older than Cotneus's release. The earliest track called 'STEREO LOVE FUNK' that we found in Apple Music's catalogue is by M3rih, dated 4 June 2024, and on 21 June 2024 K!LLA released one titled 'This song gives you 200% power'. On 6 July 2024 the YouTube channel Zevven posted 'STEREO LOVE FUNK [Brazilian Phonk]', credited in its description to the producer Vynth; that upload had 10,942,596 views on 27 October. More acts followed through 2025, among them XLKA, SVBE, BLVKZ and Daft Junk, and SERAPHIX and Vilaxxs released theirs in February 2026.

You can tell the charting version by its length and its names. Cotneus, PVNZER and Kngmn are credited together, and at 1 minute 17 seconds it is among the shortest: only Dariusz's 76-second version and some sped-up variants run shorter. Deezer carries it with three variants, Slowed, Ultra Slowed and Speed Up. Cotneus's own channel posted an 'Official Audio' video of it on 3 October, tagged 'TIKTOK VIRAL'.

How Cotneus's 'STEREO LOVE FUNK' changes 'Stereo Love'

We compared the 30-second previews that Deezer and Apple Music offer for Cotneus's edit, for SVBE's version and for the 2009 radio edit of 'Stereo Love'. Our key estimator places the 2009 track in C sharp minor, and Cotneus's preview matches it best with no transposition, so the edit keeps the original key. SVBE's reads lower, though our two comparisons disagree by how much. Our tempo readings find a pulse near 129 beats per minute in all three. Cotneus kept the notes and the speed, put a new beat under them and cut the song to 77 seconds.

Cotneus's YouTube channel, opened in October 2021, had about 733,000 subscribers and 46 videos on 27 October and gives the United States as its country, though its YouTube Music profile describes Cotneus as a 'Music Producer From Georgia', next to the flag of the country Georgia. The auto-generated YouTube track of 'STEREO LOVE FUNK' had 2,425,712 views that day, a small number next to the 10.9 million of the 2024 Zevven upload. The Shorts charts measure something else: how many people use a sound under their own videos, not how many play it as a song.

The 'Stereo Love Funk' dance trend, before the charts

The dance in those searches seems to come from TikTok. A YouTube compilation posted on 30 August, ten days before the song first reached a national Shorts chart, is titled 'stereo love funk TikTok Dance Trend Compilation'. We could not check TikTok itself, so we cannot say which version of the sound those first clips used or who started the routine. A dance trend did cross over in October, when Patrick Sébastien's 2015 'Toc Toc' went from dance clips into Shazam's top 100s in 17 countries, a jump this edit has not made.

The 2009 'Stereo Love' it comes from

'Stereo Love' was released in Romania in 2009 on Cat Music, with Edward Maya producing and Vika Jigulina singing. It reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the chart dated 1 January 2011 and spent 28 weeks there, and the official video on Spinnin' Records' YouTube channel had 787,459,247 views on 27 October 2026. Those numbers are the likely reason so many producers reached for it: the riff is already familiar, and a Short has no time for an introduction.

'Stereo Love Funk' on Spotify: our date for it

We expect the Shorts hit to stay off Spotify's charts. Our prediction: no country's Spotify daily top 200 will list Cotneus's 'STEREO LOVE FUNK' on any day up to 30 November 2026. Even on 13 October, when it led four national Shorts charts, kworb's records show it on no Spotify chart anywhere. If it appears in any country's daily top 200 by 30 November, we will mark the prediction wrong.

Search the title and dozens of uploads come back. The one YouTube counted on its Shorts charts in 15 countries on 25 October is the 77-second edit by Cotneus, PVNZER and Kngmn, and it names Edward Maya as its composer.