Tucker Carlson Had the Most Popular New Show on Apple Podcasts in 2024

Tucker Carlson, who went solo after losing his job at Fox News, had the No. 1 new show on Apple Podcasts this year in the U.S., according to the tech giant.

On Apple Podcasts, the conservative media personality released more than 150 episodes of “The Tucker Carlson Show” with guests including Vladimir Putin, JD Vance, Kid Rock, Vivek Ramaswamy, RFK Jr., Roseanne Barr, Donald Trump Jr., Russell Brand, Rob Schneider, Steve Bannon, Aaron Rodgers, Chris Cuomo and Megyn Kelly. The show’s description says it is “your beacon of free speech and honest reporting in a media landscape dominated by misinformation. The only solution to ending the propaganda spiral is by telling the truth. That’s our job. Every day. No matter what.”

“The Tucker Carlson Show,” in addition to ranking as the most popular show on Apple Podcasts that premiered in the past year, also scored the most-shared episode of the year on Apple Podcasts for the Aug. 16 segment titled “Calley & Casey Means: The Truth About Ozempic, the Pill, and How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick.”

The most popular overall show on Apple Podcasts in 2024 was the New York Times’ “The Daily,” followed by Audiochuck’s “Crime Junkie” true-crime series and “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which returned to Apple Podcasts and other platforms in early 2024 after Spotify relinquished exclusive rights to Rogan’s podcast.

The most listened-to episode of the year was Crime Junkie’s “Serial Killer: The Alphabet Murders Part 1,” followed by Rogan’s Oct. 25 interview with Donald Trump.

According to Apple, the top shows and top new shows rankings are measured by total listeners in the past year. The top new shows category specifically represents shows that launched in the past year.

The most-followed shows on Apple Podcasts in 2024 were: “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “New Heights With Jason & Travis Kelce,” “Huberman Lab,” Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” and “The Tucker Carlson Show.”

In December 2023, Carlson launched the Tucker Carlson Network as “an alternative to legacy media.” His company produces shows, speeches, films and investigative reports distributed on its owned-and-operated site and third-party platforms. A membership to TCN costs $9 per month with perks that include ad-free content and “members-only viewing of Tucker Carlson content before the general public.” Subscribers also can “speak directly with Tucker Carlson during weekly ‘Ask Tucker’ episodes,” according to the site.

Last year Variety reported that a Fox Corp. board member told Carlson that his ouster from Fox News was a condition of the network’s $787.5 million settlement of the defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems. (Both Fox and Dominion denied this.) 

To be sure, the Apple Podcasts rankings represent only a slice of the total listening audience, which spans services including Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, SiriusXM and more.

That said, these are Apple Podcasts’ Top 10 rankings for 2024 in the U.S.:

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