Hamish & Andy holds top spot; podcast downloads dwarfing 2021 figures
LiSTNR/SCA’s Hamish & Andy has continued to hold on to the top spot of the Triton Digital Podcast Ranker for June, as it has done so for every month this year, barring January and February when it released no episodes.
The show tallied 971,617 monthly listeners across 5 new episodes, ahead of Audioboom’s Casefile True Crime, also a mainstay in the top two, which totaled 806,523 monthly listeners across three new episodes.
The top five remained the same despite a reshuffle, with ARN’s Kyle & Jackie O rising to number three with 501,226 listeners, 2022 new entrant Liar, Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions from Nine Publishing dropping to four, and
Life Uncut with Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne to five.
Top 10 [click to enlarge]
In total, 14 of the top 100 podcasts were listed under the True Crime genre, with a further 27 listed as news podcasts.
Shandee’s Story, created by Walkley-winning journalist Hedley Thomas, was a big riser, jumping 20 spots to 20th overall. Thomas also created The Teacher’s Trial, another True Crime podcast listed above.
The top new entrant into the top 100 was Stitcher Media’s Pod Save America podcast, where four former Obama aides talk about politics from a liberal perspective. It was a debut for the podcast, which likely comes due to a turbulent month for American politics.
Stuff You Should Know from ARN/iHeartRadio topped the list for monthly downloads, with 2,660,264 downloads across 19 episodes.
Total podcast downloads dropped by five million across June compared to May, where downloads hit a record peak of 74.3 million. Year on year, podcasts have steadily grown, however, with the same month figure in 2021 totaling 49.9 million, now at 69.1 million.
Total downloads significantly up on 2021 [click to enlarge]
ARN/iHeartMedia was again the top publisher with 3,628,449 monthly listeners and 18,662,308 downloads, more than a quarter of the total podcast downloads in the market. LiSTNR/SCA came second with 2,948,118 listeners and 9,280,049 downloads.
Top participating publishers [click to enlarge]
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Calum Jaspan was news editor at Mumbrella, based in Melbourne. He was also the producer and host of the Mumbrellacast. He left Mumbrella in May 2023.
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