Apple Names Most Popular Podcasts of 2024

Hartley Charlton

Today, Apple shared the most popular podcasts of 2024. The yearly charts are available in the Explore tab of the Podcasts app until the end of the year.

The 2024 charts include the best podcasts overall, the best new podcasts debuting this year, the most subscribed podcasts, the most shared podcasts and episodes, and more. The most popular podcasts of 2024 in the U.S., according to Apple Podcasts:

Top Shows

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 and Travis Kelsey
9. Up First from NPR
10. Morbid

Best New Shows

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 Murders
7. Noble
8. Murder in the Hollywood Hills
9. Hysterical
10. Who Killed Kennedy?

Best Episodes

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

Best Episodes

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 firery Debate”
4. Dateline NBC: “Dangerous Secret”
5. Bakersfield Trio: “Episode 1: Fight Like a Mother”
6. SmartLess: “Vince Vaughn”
7. Trio: “Skylar Is Missing | Chapter 1”
8. TV Series: “TV Series S04 – Ep 1: Poor Little Raoul”
9. Mortal Sin: “1 – Ashes to Ashes”
10. New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelsey: “Travis Wins on the Road, Jason Celebrates Shirtless, and Full Division Round Recap | Ep 75”

Most Popular Shows

1. Huberman Lab
2. Scamanda
3. Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
4. The Daily
5. The Bible in a Year (with Father Mike Schmitz)
6. The Bible Review
7. The Mel Robbins Podcast
8. Sold History
9. Who Killed Kennedy?
10. Crime Junkie

Most Popular Episodes

1. Tucker Carlson Show: “Calley & Casey Means: The Truth About Ozempic, the Pill, and How Big Pharma Is Making You Sick”
2. Mel Robbins Podcast: “The #1 Menopause Doctor: How to Lose Belly Fat, Sleep Better, and Stop Suffering Right Now”
3. The Daily: “The Year of Taylor Swift”
4. Huberman Lab: “Dr. Stacy Sims: Women’s Exercise and Nutrition for Health, Performance, and Longevity”
5. The Joe Rogan Experience: “#2219 — Donald Trump”
6. The Ezra Klein Show: “Is Tim Walz the Midwestern Dad Democrats Need?”
7. Speaking Honestly with Bari Weiss: “Why Kids Are Not Okay”
8. We Can Do Hard Things: “263: Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents with Lindsay S. Gibson”
9. Call Her Daddy: “Vice President Kamala Harris”
10. Good Morning with Dr. Becky: “Generation Anxious with Jonathan Haidt”

Most Popular Shows

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelsey
3. The Huberman Lab
4. Call Her Daddy
5. The Tucker Carlson Show
6. Mel Robbins Podcast
7. SmartLess
8. Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
9. Crime Junkie
10. The Daily

Most Popular Shows

1. Apple News+ Stories
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

Top Channels

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

These charts in the Podcasts app are localized for listeners in nearly 100 countries and regions. Listeners can also explore Shows We Love, a curated collection of outstanding narrative and episodic series that Apple says resonated this year. Apple added that it will unveil its Show of the Year on Tuesday, December 3.

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