Spotify Top Podcasts vs Substack live ranks

A Spotify Top Podcasts vs Substack comparison on Trends MCP is two get_top_trends calls: type Spotify Top Podcasts and type Substack. From the August 25, 2026 pull, both boards stamped 2026-08-25T20:01:41 UTC. Spotify Top Podcasts returned 50 rows at offsets 0, 50, 100, and 150, filling ranks 1 through 200, then count 0 at offset 200. Substack returned 50 rows at offset 0, then 48 rows at offset 50 ending at rank 98, then count 0 at offset 98. Spotify rank 1 was Spotify Live. Substack rank 1 was Spencer Pratt. Zero exact titles overlapped in 200 versus 98. google search for joe rogan sat at 7.0 on 2026-08-22. Free tier access is 100 requests per month.

What Spotify Top Podcasts vs Substack data shows right now

From the Trends MCP scan of August 25, 2026, Spotify Top Podcasts and Substack both stamped 2026-08-25T20:01:41 UTC, with Spotify filling 200 rows and Substack closing at 98, so a default limit 25 join misses every Spotify show after 25 and every Substack title that only matches a later page.

Spotify ranks 13 through 28 included The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett at 13, Huberman Lab at 28, and Call Her Daddy at 27. Lex Fridman Podcast sat at rank 100. Substack ranks 13 through 20 included Georgia Drakaki at 13, Document Zero at 20, and Women + AI at 43.

Same-stamp board facts (Spotify 200 versus Substack 98):

Growth follow-ups on the same pull day used source google search and youtube (weekly points, recent_date 2026-08-22, 261 points):

Crime Junkie is the demand split: youtube index 100.0 while google search sits at 38.0. Spencer Pratt leads Substack while google search sits at 1.0. For the Spotify board alone, see the Spotify Top Podcasts API.

Exact API calls for both live boards

Two get_top_trends calls cover the snapshot: type Spotify Top Podcasts for show titles and type Substack for newsletter titles, each counting as one request against the monthly quota on the August 25, 2026 pull, with Spotify needing limit 50 plus offset 50, 100, and 150 because default 25 hides ranks 26 through 200, and Substack needing offset 50 to reach rank 98.

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "Spotify Top Podcasts",
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 50
}

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "Substack",
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 50
}

{
  "mode": "get_growth",
  "source": "google search, youtube",
  "keyword": "crime junkie",
  "percent_growth": ["7D", "30D"]
}

Join on exact titles first. "The Joe Rogan Experience" has no Substack twin in 98 rows. Offset details for feeds that page past 25 live on get_top_trends offset and limit.

Spotify fills 200 while Substack closes at 98

Spotify Top Podcasts can fill 200 rows while Substack returns count 0 at offset 98, so a limit 200 call is not a promise that every live feed has 200 names on the August 25, 2026 stamp, and a default limit 25 hides most of both boards.

Spotify returned 50 at offset 0, 50 at offset 50, 50 at offset 100, 50 at offset 150, and count 0 at offset 200. Substack returned 50 at offset 0, 48 at offset 50 (ranks 51 through 98), and count 0 at offset 98. Default limit 25 would have kept Spotify Live through Armchair Expert and Spencer Pratt through The Gray Camper Van Writer at Substack rank 23, and dropped Huberman Lab at 28, Lex Fridman Podcast at 100, and Women + AI at 43.

There is no Substack keyword source. Quote the live rank for Spencer Pratt, then use google search 1.0 on 2026-08-22, which stayed flat over 7 days and 30 days from 1.0. Do not invent a Substack subscriber series that this API does not return.

Evergreen shows sit on Spotify and miss Substack

The Joe Rogan Experience, Crime Junkie, The Daily, Huberman Lab, and Lex Fridman Podcast can occupy Spotify ranks 2, 3, 6, 28, and 100 with zero exact matches in Substack 98, which is enough to keep a chart-stable podcast off a newsletter board on the same timestamp.

joe rogan google search sat at 7.0 on 2026-08-22, up 16.67% over 7 days from 6.0 and down 12.5% over 30 days from 8.0. youtube sat at 12.0, flat over 7 days and down 7.69% over 30 days from 13.0. crime junkie youtube sat at 100.0, up 61.29% over 7 days from 62.0, while google search sat at 38.0, down 13.64% over 7 days from 44.0. huberman lab youtube sat at 23.0, up 9.52% over 7 days from 21.0, while google search sat at 2.0, down 33.33% over 7 days from 3.0. lex fridman google search sat at 8.0, down 27.27% over 7 days from 11.0.

The Daily is a noisy keyword. google search sat at 43.0, down 20.37% over 7 days from 54.0. youtube sat at 50.0, flat over 7 days. Quote Spotify rank 6 plus those indexes, and do not treat "the daily" as a clean show-only series. For video-side attention on the same day, see the YouTube Trending API.

Limits of a podcast-to-newsletter join

Exact title equals under-count related names, Substack has no keyword history source, and Spotify ranks are show charts rather than episode titles, so Spencer Pratt can lead Substack while google search prints 1.0, and Crime Junkie can sit at youtube 100.0 while missing Substack 98.

tucker carlson google search sat at 1.0 on 2026-08-22, down 50.0% over 7 days from 2.0. youtube sat at 8.0, down 20.0% over 7 days from 10.0. call her daddy google search sat at 8.0, down 11.11% over 7 days from 9.0. youtube sat at 8.0, down 20.0% over 7 days from 10.0. Those weekly indexes are demand around the name, not Spotify listener counts.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks and Friedberg sat at Spotify rank 44 with no Substack twin in 98. Women + AI sat at Substack rank 43 with no Spotify twin in 200. Cross-check content strategy workflows when a show is chart-stable on Spotify while a newsletter chart is still a different catalog.