Revealed: Apple Podcasts Most Popular Shows, Subscriber Channels For 2024.

Apple Podcasts has unveiled its list of the most popular podcasts of 2024, and it says the New York Times’ The Daily was the most popular podcast on its app this year, with Serial the top series and The Tucker Carlson Show its top new show. The Joe Rogan Experience, which returned to Apple Podcasts mid-year, is the most followed show. And Wondery and had iHeartPodcasts had the top subscriber channels. Here are the most popular podcasts of 2024 in the U.S.:

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 & Travis Kelce

9. Up First from NPR

10. Morbid

    
    

Top 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 Family Killings

7. Noble

8. Murder in the Hollywood Hills

9. Hysterical

10. Who Killed JFK?

    
    

Top Series

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

    
    

Most Followed Shows 

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

    
    

Top Subscriber Shows 

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

    
    

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 

    
    

Top 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 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”

    
    

Most Shared Shows

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

    
    

Most Shared Episodes 

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 Podcasts is also releasing its annual Shows We Love feature, a curated collection of standout narrative and episodic series that resonated this year with its team. The feature is available for the U.S. and 14 other countries on the Apple Podcast app.