Apple reveals the best podcasts of 2024

It smells like pine (but for good reason). Apple shared the podcasts most popular of 2024, with rankings available in the “Browse” tab of the Podcasts app until the end of the year.

Rankings in 100 countries

As in 2023, the 2024 podcast rankings on the Apple Podcasts application highlight the most popular podcasts, notable new podcasts, and those most followed and shared. These tops are generated in nearly 100 countries and regions, including France and the United States. Users can also discover a special selection entitled “Shows We Love” with notable narrative and episodic series. Apple will announce its podcast of the year on December 3.

Apple Podcasts in France

Top podcasts 2024

1. Sensitive matters – France Inter
2. Legend – Guillaume Pley
3. Hondelatte Tells – Christophe Hondelatte
4. Feet on the ground – France Culture
5. The Big Heads – RTL
6. Transfer – Slate.fr Podcasts
7. Today’s news – Hugo Decrypts
8. At the Heart of History – Virginie Girod and Stéphane Bern
9. Emotions: the podcast to put your emotions into words – Louie Media
10. Criminal Chronicles – TF1

Top new podcasts 2024

1. History Secrets – Initial Studio
2. Fifty States — a Daily Podcast
3. Hot Stories Sex & sexuality without filter – Bliss Studio
4. The latest – Radio Nova
5. Folie Douce – Lauren Bastide
6. The Raw interview. famous people – Gross.
7. My word – France Culture
8. Realigned by Major Movement – ​​Major Movement
9. Xi Jinping, the red prince – France Inter
10. Jungle Love – Ben Mazué

Top episodes 2024

1. Sleeping pill from 05/02 – Camille’s grief
2. Philippe Boxho, Forensic Pathologist: The Most Horrible Murders He Has Seen!
3. Suzanne de Canson, the stripped heiress – Part 1/3
4. Learning to learn, with Grégoire Borst 1/6: Attention
5. #401 – Emmanuel Macron – President of the Republic – The heaviest decisions are taken alone
6. A stranger who looks a lot like my husband
7. Lover Thief (1/4): An almost perfect match
8. The Margot Lagrave affair: The crime was almost perfect
9. #251 – Jeanne Damas, This Baby Who Defied Everything

The most shared podcasts in 2024

1. Fifty States — a Daily Podcast
2. Quran of Your Heart – Zaynab – Quran of my Heart
3. The life of Prophet Mohammad ﷺ – Mohammad ﷺ, the prophet of mercy
4. Stories of the Prophets – MusVoice
5. Shipwrecked – a true story – France Inter
6. Miracle Fajr Podcast
7. Sleeping pill, the podcast to fall asleep – Morphée
8. The Walkers – The Others
9. These questions that everyone asks themselves – Maud Ankaoua
10. Legend – Guillaume Pley

The most shared episodes in 2024

1. #401 – Emmanuel Macron – President of the Republic – The heaviest decisions are taken alone – Do It Yourself Generation
2. Mazan affair: Years of ignorance – Transfer
3. Alcohol, we have a problem – Let’s live happily before the end of the world
4. Episode 162 – The baby clash, how to get through it without gutting yourself? Anna Roy midwife – Matrescence
5. What is love, mistress? | 1/5 – The Heart on the table
6. Establishing educational limits – Caroline Goldman – doctor of child psychology
7. Former Trader and Banker: How to Get Rich While Avoiding Scams – Legend
8. #73 — A minute of eternity, with François Sarano – Les Baladeurs
9. Loveur Thief (1/4): An almost perfect match – Passages: the true story podcast from Louie Media
10. Inventing feminist therapy – A podcast of your own

The most followed podcasts in 2024

1. LEGEND – Guillaume Pley
2. Today’s news – Hugo Decrypts
3. Fifty States — a Daily Podcast
4. Sensitive matters – France Inter
5. World Time – The World
6. Transfer – Slate.fr Podcasts
7. Quran of Your Heart – Zaynab – Quran of my Heart
8. History Secrets – Initial Studio
9. The latest – Radio Nova
10. Hondelatte Tells – Christophe Hondelatte

Top paid podcasts in 2024

1. THE CODE Radio with Mehdi Maïzi – Apple Music
2. Transfer – Slate.fr Podcasts
3. Hondelatte Tells – Christophe Hondelatte
4. The new adventures of Cornebidouille – DISO (in French)
5. Bring in the accused
6. The Story of Classical – Apple Music
7. Home(icides) – Bababam (in French)
8. DISO – Simon – DISO (in French)
9. Apple Music Today – Apple Music
10. The Hunt – Bababam (in French)

Apple Podcasts in the USA

Top podcasts 2024

1. The Daily
2. Crime Junkie
3. The Joe Rogan Experience
4. DatelineNBC
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 podcasts 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?

Best series 2024

1. Series
2. Up and Vanished
3. Three
4. The Bakersfield Three
5. CounterClock
6. Something was wrong
7. Dr. Death
8. The Business of Frenzy
9. Rachel Maddow presents: Ultra
10. Crimes of the frenzy

Best episodes 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: in 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. Series: “Series S04 – Ep. 1: Poor baby Raul»
9. Mortal Sin: “1 – Ashes to Ashes”
10. New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce: “Travis wins on the road, Jason celebrates shirtless & full divisional round recap | Ep. 75”

Most shared episodes in 2024

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. Bible Summary
7. The Mel Robbins Podcast
8. Sold a story
9. Who killed JFK?
10. Crime Junkie

Most shared episodes in 2024

1. The Tucker Carlson Show: “Calley & Casey Means: The Truth About Ozempic, The Pill, and How Big Pharma Makes You Sick”
2. The Mel Robbins Podcast: “The #1 Menopause Doctor: How to Lose Belly Fat, Sleep Better, and Stop Suffering Now”
3. The Daily: “The Year of Taylor Swift”
4. Huberman Lab: “Dr. Stacy Sims: Women-Specific Exercises 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. Honestly with Bari Weiss: “Why Kids Aren’t Well”
8. We Can Do Hard Things: “26
9. Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents with Lindsay C. Gibson »
10. Call Her Daddy: “Vice President Kamala Harris”
11. Good Inside with Dr. Becky: “The Anxious Generation with Jonathan Haidt”

Most followed episodes in 2024

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. New Heights with Jason and 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 paid podcasts

1. Apple News+ Narrated
2. Morbid
3. DatelineNBC
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

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