Mushroom trial dominates the podcast ranker

Australia’s obsession with the mushroom murder trial has seen a number of podcasts covering the case enter this month’s chart.

The ABC’s Mushroom Case Daily is the highest of these mushroom-related new entries, landing in fourth place in Triton’s Australian Podcast Ranker, with 625,000 listeners across the month. It sits behind last month’s top three — Hamish and Andy, ABC News Top Stories, and Mamamia Out Loud — and ahead of Shameless, which has slipped to #5 to make way for the mushrooms.

News Corp’s The Mushroom Cook debuted at #23, just shy of 300,000 listeners, while Nine Radio’s The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace managed to land at #37, with just under 200,000 listeners.

Nine’s mushroom offering

The Daily Mail also has a popular podcast, The Trial of Erin Patterson, which is currently sitting at #21 on Apple Podcast’s ‘True Crime’ charts. The Daily Mail does not take part in the Triton Podcast Ranker.

Crime is booming elsewhere on this month’s chart. News Corp’s Bronwyn, Dear Rochelle, and I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin podcasts; Australian True Crime; and Mamamia’s True Crime Conversations are all sitting inside the Top 30.

Lower in the Podcast Ranker, 2019’s Teacher’s Pet and Who The Hell Is Hamish from 2018 are still drawing 40,000 and 25,000 respective listeners each month.

Given that Casefile would be sitting at #1 or #2 if it was still included in the chart — the show is now distributed by Acast, and no longer part of the ‘Ranker’ — that’s a lot of true crime audio that Australians are consuming.

Over on the Apple Podcast charts, The Guardian UK’s Missing in the Amazon is the fourth most-listened-to show in Australia, and a Casefile spin-off, Crime Interrupted sits at #10.

Other international crimes-turned-podcasts are scattered throughout the top 50 of Apple’s chart, with compelling titles like What Happened To Holly Bobo, The Missing Matter, The Boy In The Goldmine, The Gangster’s Ghost, Diddy On Trial, and Catch Me If You Ken.

ABC’s Mushroom Case Daily is #1 on Apple’s chart.

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Nathan Jolly

Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.

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topics ABC News Top Stories Australian True Crime Bronwyn Casefile Dear Rochelle Hamish and Andy I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin Mushroom Case Daily The Mushroom Cook The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace The Trial of Erin Patterson True Crime Conversations

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