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Move over, Spotify and Apple. YouTube has its own podcast charts now.

For years, Spotify and Apple have published their own charts showing best-performing podcasts. As a result, when new podcasts debut or older podcasts see a notable spike in listenership, those companies are often cited in articles, simply because they’re the ones providing the data.

YouTube, it seems, is no longer willing to be left out–especially with 1 billion people listening to podcast content on its platform each month.

This morning, as a followup to its annual Brandcast presentation, it revealed the launch of its own weekly podcast charts.

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Called Weekly Top Podcast Shows, the chart will update each Wednesday, showing the top 100 podcasts on YouTube by U.S. watch time.

Unsurprisingly, YouTube’s first chart showed The Joe Rogan Experience is its #1 podcast, followed by Kill Tony, Rotten Mango, 48 Hours, The MeidasTouch Podcast, and H3 Show. (More below.)

“Our Weekly Top Podcast Shows chart recognizes and celebrates top podcasters who are redefining the next era of entertainment with engaging, influential, culture-defining shows across a variety of genres like News, Sports, Comedy, and True Crime,” YouTube said in a company blog post.

YouTube is relying on creators to help it collate data for this chart, since Weekly Top Podcast Shows will only count videos “that are designated as ‘podcasts’ by the creator in the upload process,'” it says.

It’s additionally filtering for things like clips of full episodes and Shorts, so those won’t be counted toward shows’ watch time and placement.

Just like at Brandcast, YouTube made this announcement with a healthy dollop of stats, including touting Edison data that shows YouTube is the #1 podcast service in the U.S. And it turns out a lot of that watch time is on TVs: users are listening to/watching over 400 million hours of podcast content per month on living room devices. (Something we’re sure YouTube is thrilled about.)

YouTube describes this release as the first iteration of podcast charts, adding that it plans to build out more features and introduce charts for regions outside the U.S. We hope that for one of those updates, it’ll consider publicly releasing shows’ watch times so we can get a hard number look at their performance the same way we can with video views. (But even video views might not be dependable these days, so who knows.)

Here’s a look at the top 50 podcasts on YouTube, according to its official debut chart:

  1. The Joe Rogan Experience
  2. KILL TONY
  3. Rotten Mango
  4. 48 Hours
  5. The MeidasTouch Podcast
  6. H3 Show – Season 5
  7. Club Shay Shay
  8. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
  9. Smosh Reads Reddit Stories
  10. Dr. Insanity Podcasts
  11. Shawn Ryan Show Podcast
  12. The Pat McAfee Show Live
  13. Timcast IRL
  14. The Diary Of A CEO
  15. Creepcast episodes
  16. Karen Read
  17. Murder, Mystery & Makeup
  18. The Tucker Carlson Show
  19. The Megyn Kelly Show
  20. Gil’s Arena Full Shows
  21. Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
  22. Lex Fridman Podcast
  23. It Is What It Is
  24. Bad Friends Podcast
  25. Full Episodes | 60 Minutes
  26. PBD Podcast
  27. A Closer Look – Late Night with Seth Meyers
  28. NIGHTCAP PODCAST
  29. Just Trish
  30. The Lets Read Podcast
  31. IHIP News
  32. Law&Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber
  33. Unsubscribe Podcast
  34. The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller
  35. The Philip DeFranco Show (Every Mon-Tues-Wed-Thurs-Friday!)
  36. The Yak
  37. Smosh Mouth
  38. NBC Nightly News: Full Broadcasts | NBC News
  39. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
  40. Breaking Points Videos
  41. Timcast News Stories
  42. Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield
  43. True Crime with Kendall Rae
  44. Dark History
  45. Julian Dorey Podcast
  46. Authorized Account | Podcast
  47. StarTalk Podcast Full Episodes
  48. Distractible
  49. SERIALously – The Podcast
  50. TigerBelly
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