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Apple Shares Most Popular Podcasts of 2022

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Apple today revealed the top podcast episodes, shows, channels, and subscriptions that listeners engaged with in the Podcasts app throughout 2022. Crime Junkie, The Daily, and Dateline NBC were the top three overall podcasts of 2022, and among new shows, The Deck, Fly on the Wall, and The Thing About Helen and Olga topped the charts.

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Shows with the most subscribers include Morbid, SmartLess, and American Scandal, with Apple also providing breakdowns by free and paid channels. Full lists are below.
Audiochuck, which produces Crime Junkie and The Deck, was the most popular podcaster in the United States, and The New York Times had the most Top Shows of 2022 with The Daily, This American Life, and Serial. Speaking of Serial, "Adnan Is Out" was the top shared podcast episode of the year.

Apple's year-end charts are available to listeners in almost 100 countries and regions, so they're worth checking out if you're looking for something new to listen to.

Apple last week named "Slow Burn" by Slate as the first ever Apple Podcasts Award winner, and since then, the show has become the number one history podcast, hitting the top charts across all categories in over 100 countries.

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Audiochuck, which produces Crime Junkie and The Deck, was the most popular podcaster in the United States, and The New York Times had the most Top Shows of 2022 with The Daily, This American Life, and Serial. Speaking of Serial, "Adnan Is Out" was the top shared podcast episode of the year.
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Isn't This American Life and Serial by WBEZ Chicago?
 
This American Life continues to be good. I also liked The Trojan Horse Affair, though I always find it weird to "subscribe" to a limited-run podcast with 8 episodes.

I sure wish Serial would release a fourth season already...
 
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Speaking of Serial, "Adnan Is Out" was the top shared podcast episode of the year.
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This is the most disturbing detail. The idea that a more emotional than factual solicitation to subvert a long and repeatedly decided criminal case can be perpetrated through a slickly produced podcast truly bodes poorly for the future of criminal justice in this country. There is so much evidence and testimony against this guy that it makes the OJ trial outcome look honorable in comparison.
 
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This is the most disturbing detail. The idea that a more emotional than factual solicitation to subvert a long and repeatedly decided criminal case can be perpetrated through a slickly produced podcast truly bodes poorly for the future of criminal justice in this country. There is so much evidence and testimony against this guy that it makes the OJ trial outcome look honorable in comparison.
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Did you follow Undisclosed? A factual account, grounded in the law, it exhaustively covered reasons why the conviction was unwarranted and unjust. There was also an excellent documentary on HBO and an excellent book written by Rabia Chaudry.

To state that the finding was "more emotional than factual" would indicate that you have yet to consume the immense body of evidence which at the very least convincingly shows the prosecution was unjust and unfair.

Read up on The Innocence Project. Sadly, there are many unfair and unjust prosecutions and convictions to keep those good people very busy indeed as they seek justice.
 
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Maddow’s Ultra is a hell of a thoroughly engaging podcast tale that mirrors current events with true events from the early days of WW2.
 
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To contribute, and because I listen to podcasts very often, these are my favorites:

  • Planet Money
  • Wisdom From The Top
  • How I Built This
  • The Indicator
  • Life Kit
And like someone else mentioned, a ton of listening to YouTube channels.
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+1 to Planet Money and How I built This. I will try the other ones.
 
I thought I was the only one who loved a fix of Crime Junkies. The unsolved [missing person] cases I find are the most stimulating.
 
Bearing in mind I'm English, so many of the following are English

All Kill No Filla - a couple of British girls talking about serial killers. Very coarse and funny and often rude.
Keep Canada Weird
Not Just the Tudors - history
The Ancients - more history
The Bugle (English satire - madness and silliness)
The News Agents - British take on politics, often involving US politics.
The Rest is Politics - a former MP and Tony Blair's ex Chief of Staff talk politics.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - epic podcasts, some hours long.

I was thinking the other day, 'at this rate it won't be long before there's a podcast gig in a stadium'. A day or so later I hear about the Rest is Politics having an episode recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, before a paying audience.

Podcasts are keeping many of us sane.
 
I don’t believe that those lists are truly based on popularity, i.e., volume of downloads or listens. For that the list that could contain news or political content is way too heavily biased toward leftist content.

It’s like ranking the most popular talk radio shows of the early 2000s and not mentioning Rush Limbaugh.
 
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I don’t believe that those lists are truly based on popularity, i.e., volume of downloads or listens. For that the list that could contain news or political content is way too heavily biased toward leftist content.

It’s like ranking the most popular talk radio shows of the early 2000s and not mentioning Rush Limbaugh.
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Yeah sad but true. Nobody voted for these Podcasts. Its all one BIG agenda. No I'm not going to dye my hair pink, Protest about everything, be self-entitled, want everything for free because other countries do it. etc... That is enough :)
 
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