Apple highlights top Podcasts of 2022 across new shows, subscribers, shared, free, more

After announcing its 2022 App Store Awards including the Podcast of the Year, Apple shared eight new Podcast charts for 2022 including the top shows of the year, top new shows, top shared shows, and top free channels.

Apple shared the new year-end charts in its Podcasts app.

“These year-end charts are available to listeners in nearly 100 countries and regions and reflect the most popular podcasts in each local market. This means listeners in the U.S. can browse the Top New Shows among listeners in the U.S. while listeners in France can browse the Top New Shows among listeners in France — helping people discover popular podcasts that are relevant to them and in their local language.”

Apple Podcasts 2022 top charts

• Top Shows of 2022 (launched any time)
• Top New Shows of 2022 (launched within 2022)
• Top Subscriber Shows of 2022
• Top Followed Shows of 2022
• Top Shared Shows of 2022
• Top Shared Episodes of 2022
• Top Subscriber Channels of 2022
• Top Free Channels of 2022

Apple also shared highlights from the US top charts:

• Audiochuck is the most popular podcaster in the country. The Indianapolis-based network founded by Ashley Flowers is the Top Free Channel for the second consecutive year. Its flagship show, Crime Junkie, is the Top Show, Most Followed Show, and Top Shared Show in the U.S. One of the company’s newest series, The Deck, is the Top New Show and among the top five Top Followed Shows in the U.S.

• The New York Times represents the most podcasts in Top Shows of 2022 with The Daily (#2), This American Life (#6), and Serial (#8). The New York Times is also the second Top Free Channel for the second consecutive year. The Trojan Horse Affair is also one of the Top New Shows (#4).
• The majority of podcasts included in Top Shows of 2022 are at least five years old.
• Wondery continues to be the most popular podcast subscription with the Top Subscriber Channel since the subscriber charts launched this summer. Wondery also distributes 16 of the 20 Top Subscriber Shows.
• All Top Subscriber Shows are broadly distributed and have free, ad-supported episodes, meaning creators do not face a trade-off between reach and revenue with Apple Podcasts and subscriptions.
• Serial’s “Adnan Is Out” (S01, E13) is the Top Shared Episode of the year in the U.S. “The Alibi” (S01, E01) is the third Top Shared Episode of the Year in the U.S. Serial remained one of the most followed and shared shows of the year.
• Listeners use and share podcasts to help navigate complex subjects and situations, according to the titles of the Top Shared Episodes. Sounds obvious, but the data is illuminating. Topics include “What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health,” (Huberman Lab), “Inside the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis” (The Daily), “We Need to Talk About Covid” (The Daily), “How to Raise Untamed Kids” (We Can Do Hard Things), “The Rise of Workplace Surveillance” (The Daily), “Tools for Optimizing Sleep” (Huberman Lab), “Eating Ourselves to Death” (Honestly with Bari Weiss), and “Grateful for Grief” (All There Is with Anderson Cooper).

If you don’t want to click through to the Podcasts app for each top list, here they are for the US:

Podcasts 2022 Charts – US

Top Shows of 2022

1. Crime Junkie
2. The Daily
3. Dateline NBC
4. Morbid
5. SmartLess
6. This American Life
7. Up First
8. Serial
9. The Ben Shapiro Show
10. Hidden Brain
11. Stuff You Should Know
12. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
13. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle
14. Radiolab
15. Fresh Air
16. Freakonomics Radio
17. Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
18. On Purpose with Jay Shetty
19. Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
20. Something Was Wrong

Top New Shows of 2022

1. The Deck
2. Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
3. The Thing About Helen & Olga
4. The Trojan Horse Affair
5. The Seduction
6. Betrayal
7. The Always Sunny Podcast
8. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
9. Very Scary People
10. Twin Flames
11. MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
12. KILLED
13. Dateline: Missing In America
14. The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley
15. Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen
16. Internal Affairs
17. Father Wants Us Dead
18. The Sunshine Place
19. Fed Up
20. American Radical

Top Subscriber Shows of 2022

1. Morbid
2. SmartLess
3. American Scandal
4. This Is Actually Happening
5. Something Was Wrong
6. Sword and Scale
7. Over My Dead Body
8. The Shrink Next Door
9. Twin Flames
10. Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked
11. The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley
12. Fed Up
13. Scamfluencers
14. Against The Odds
15. The Vanished Podcast
16. Dateline NBC
17. Killer Psyche
18. The Generation Why Podcast
19. Internal Affairs
20. Suspect

Top Followed Shows of 2022

1. Crime Junkie
2. Morbid
3. SmartLess
4. The Daily
5. The Deck
6. Huberman Lab
7. The Trojan Horse Affair
8. Dateline NBC
9. Something Was Wrong
10. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
11. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle
12. On Purpose with Jay Shetty
13. Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
14. The Thing About Helen & Olga
15. Serial
16. The Always Sunny Podcast
17. Gone South
18. This Is Actually Happening
19. CounterClock
20. Stuff You Should Know

Top Shared Shows of 2022

1. Crime Junkie
2. SmartLess
3. Huberman Lab
4. The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
5. Murdaugh Murders Podcast
6. The Daily
7. Something Was Wrong
8. Morbid
9. S-Town
10. Serial
11. The Thing About Pam
12. The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
13. The Trojan Horse Affair
14. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle
15. On Purpose with Jay Shetty
16. Your Own Backyard
17. Dr. Death | S1: Dr. Duntsch
18. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
19. Sweet Bobby
20. The Dropout

Top Shared Episodes of 2022

1. Serial: “Serial S01 Ep. 13: Adnan Is Out”
2. Huberman Lab: “What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health”
3. Serial: “Serial S01 – Ep. 1: The Alibi”
4. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle: “Breaking Cycles & Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Becky Kennedy”
5. The Daily: “Inside the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis”
6. The Daily: “We Need to Talk About Covid, Part 1”
7. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle: “How to Raise Untamed Kids with Dr. Becky Kennedy”
8. The Daily: “A Movement to Fight Misinformation… With Misinformation”
9. The Daily: “Why Adnan Syed Was Released From Prison”
10. REAL AF with Andy Frisella: “14. #75HARD: A Tactical Guide To Winning The War With Yourself”
11. Hidden Brain: “Reframing Your Reality: Part 1”
12. The Daily: “The Rise of Workplace Surveillance”
13. Huberman Lab: “Sleep Toolkit: Tools for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing”
14. Honestly with Bari Weiss: “Eating Ourselves to Death”
15. All There Is with Anderson Cooper: “Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief”
16. REAL AF with Andy Frisella: “208. #75HARD + #LIVEHARD: Winning The War Within & Unlocking Your Full Potential”
17. Ologies with Alie Ward: “Part 1: Attention-Deficit Neuropsychology (ADHD) with Russell Barkley”
18. The Peter Attia Drive: “COVID-19: Current state of affairs, Omicron, and a search for the end game”
19. The Daily: “The Pastors Being Driven Out by Trumpism”
20. FULL SEND PODCAST: “Donald Trump on WW3, Talking to Putin, and Joe Rogan!”

Top Subscriber Channels of 2022

1. Wondery
2. Dateline NBC
3. Pushkin
4. Tenderfoot TV
5. TED Audio Collective
6. BBC Podcasts
7. Planet Money
8. Radiolab
9. The Moth
10. Luminary
11. Slate Podcasts
12. Lemonada
13. The Binge
14. Casefile Presents
15. Radiotopia
16. Slumber Studios
17. The Athletic
18. S&S +PLUS Light
19. Imperative
20. Wondery Kids

Top Free Channels of 2022

1. audiochuck
2. The New York Times
3. iHeartPodcasts
4. Serial
5. The Daily Wire
6. Barstool Sports
7. Dear Media
8. ABC News
9. Exactly Right
10. Earwolf
11. Team Coco
12. ESPN
13. Crooked Media
14. MSNBC
15. Freakonomics
16. All Things Comedy Network
17. C13Originals
18. The Black Effect Network
19. Vox Media Podcast Network
20. Ramble

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