Apple shares the most popular podcasts of 2024

Joe Rogan is not on top, but it's close.
By Stan Schroeder  on 
Apple Top Podcasts
That's a lot of lists. Credit: Apple

Apple's list of top podcasts for the year is in and it's...not very surprising.

The most popular podcast of the year in the U.S., according to Apple, was the New York Times' The Daily, followed by Crime Junkie, and The Joe Rogan Experience in the third spot.

The full list is as follows:

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Apple's top podcasts of 2024

  1. The Daily

  2. Crime Junkie

  3. The Joe Rogan Experience

  4. Dateline NBC

  5. SmartLess

  6. Huberman Lab

  7. This American Life

  8. New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

  9. Up First from NPR

  10. Morbid

Apple actually shared 10 different top lists, including the list of Top New Shows (headed by The Tucker Carlson Show), Top Series (with Serial on top), and Most Shared Shows (with the first places belonging to Huberman Lab).

You can check out all the 2024 top charts in the Browse tab in the Podcasts app. In some markets, you can also check out Apple's curated collection of "standout" shows called Shows We Love.

The company hasn't yet revealed the Show of the Year; that's coming on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Check out all of Apple's top lists (so far), below:

Apple's top new podcasts of 2024

  1. The Tucker Carlson Show

  2. Three

  3. Mortal Sin

  4. Drowning Creek

  5. The Rise and Fall of Ruby Franke

  6. Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings

  7. Noble

  8. Murder in the Hollywood Hills

  9. Hysterical

  10. Who Killed JFK?

Apple's top podcast series of 2024

  1. Serial

  2. Up and Vanished

  3. Three

  4. The Bakersfield Three

  5. CounterClock

  6. Something Was Wrong

  7. Dr. Death

  8. The Binge Cases

  9. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

  10. The Binge Crimes

Apple's top podcast episodes of 2024

  1. Crime Junkie: “SERIAL KILLER: The Alphabet Murders Part 1”

  2. The Joe Rogan Experience: “#2219 - Donald Trump”

  3. The Daily: “Harris Baits Trump: Inside Their Fiery Debate”

  4. Dateline NBC: “Dangerous Secret”

  5. The Bakersfield Three: “Episode 1: Fight Like a Mother”

  6. SmartLess: “Vince Vaughn”

  7. Three: “Skylar Is Missing | Chapter 1”

  8. Serial: “Serial S04 - Ep. 1: Poor Baby Raul”

  9. Mortal Sin: “1 – Ashes to Ashes”

  10. New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce: “Travis Wins on the Road, Jason Celebrates Shirtless and Full Divisional Round Recap | Ep 75”

Apple's most shared podcasts of 2024

  1. Huberman Lab

  2. Scamanda

  3. Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  4. The Daily

  5. The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

  6. The Bible Recap

  7. The Mel Robbins Podcast

  8. Sold a Story

  9. Who Killed JFK?

  10. Crime Junkie

Apple's most shared podcast episodes of 2024

  1. The Tucker Carlson Show: “Calley & Casey Means: The Truth About Ozempic, the Pill, and How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick”

  2. The Mel Robbins Podcast: “The #1 Menopause Doctor: How to Lose Belly Fat, Sleep Better, & Stop Suffering Now”

  3. The Daily: “The Year of Taylor Swift”

  4. Huberman Lab: “Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity”

  5. The Joe Rogan Experience: “#2219 - Donald Trump”

  6. The Ezra Klein Show: “Is Tim Walz the Midwestern Dad Democrats Need?”

  7. Honestly with Bari Weiss: “Why the Kids Aren’t Alright”

  8. We Can Do Hard Things: “263. Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents with Lindsay C. Gibson”

  9. Call Her Daddy: “Vice President Kamala Harris”

  10. Good Inside with Dr. Becky: “The Anxious Generation with Jonathan Haidt”

Apple's most followed podcasts of 2024

  1. The Joe Rogan Experience

  2. New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

  3. Huberman Lab

  4. Call Her Daddy

  5. The Tucker Carlson Show

  6. The Mel Robbins Podcast

  7. SmartLess

  8. Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  9. Crime Junkie

  10. The Daily

Apple's top subscriber podcasts of 2024

  1. Apple News+ Narrated

  2. Morbid

  3. Dateline NBC

  4. The Rise and Fall of Ruby Franke

  5. Dr. Death

  6. SmartLess

  7. Something Was Wrong

  8. Scamtown

  9. American Scandal

  10. Mortal Sin

Apple's top podcast channels of 2024

  1. Wondery

  2. iHeartPodcasts

  3. The New York Times

  4. audiochuck

  5. SiriusXM Podcasts

  6. Dateline NBC

  7. Dear Media

  8. iHeart True Crime

  9. Scicomm Media

  10. Cumulus Podcast Network

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