Spotify Podcasts
The Joe Rogan Experience, first aired December 24, 2009, still leads Spotify Top Podcasts on September 1, 2026, with the same ten shows, in the same order, as August 31. Spotify Live is rank 2. Crime Junkie (2017) is rank 3. The Shawn Ryan Show and Good Hang with Amy Poehler fill ranks 4 and 5. The board is talk, true crime, and news fixtures in the week before Labor Day on September 7, not a one-day chart spike and not a new episode title list.
Top trending podcasts on Spotify: September 1
The Joe Rogan Experience (2009): Joe Rogan's long-form talk show, launched December 24, 2009 with Brian Redban, holds rank 1 for a second straight daily file. Edison Research's Q1 2026 U.S. ranking also had this show at 1. No download count or episode title is stated here.
Spotify Live: Rank 2 is unchanged versus August 31. The row is Spotify's own live/talk slot, not an independent studio brand. No separate September 1 programming note was found.
Crime Junkie (2017): Ashley Flowers' Audiochuck true-crime show, started in 2017, holds rank 3. Edison Q1 2026 placed it at 2 in the U.S. across platforms. The Spotify rank is a fixture hold, not a single-case spike.
The Shawn Ryan Show: Rank 4 is unchanged. The interview show remains in the talk block under Rogan and Spotify Live. No episode title is listed.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Rank 5 is unchanged. Edison Q1 2026 recorded this show moving from 38 to 13 after a January 2026 Golden Globe for Best Podcast, which helps explain a durable Spotify slot without citing a September 1 episode.
The Daily (2017): The New York Times news briefing, launched in 2017, holds rank 6. Edison Q1 2026 had it at 3 in the U.S. Rank 6 on Spotify is a catalog news fixture, not a breaking-story debut.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: Rank 7 is unchanged versus August 31. Theo Von's talk show stays in the comedy-interview cluster with Rogan, Shawn Ryan, and Matt and Shane. No download figure is cited.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast: Rank 8 is unchanged. The comedy talk pair remains a mid-list fixture. No episode title is listed.
The Tucker Carlson Show: Rank 9 is unchanged. The political interview show is the news-talk counterpart to The Daily's briefing format. No September 1 headline is attached to the rank.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (2018): Dax Shepard's interview show, started in 2018, holds rank 10. Edison Q1 2026 noted an Armchair Expert rise of 12 places versus Q4 2025 on that separate ranker. Spotify still prints it at 10, same as August 31.
The live ranked board beyond today's top 10 is available via the Trends MCP API. Get your free API key
What changed on Spotify since yesterday
Ranks 1 through 10 match the August 31 post exactly: same ten podcasts, same order. There is no new entrant, no drop-off, and no mover of 5 or more places. Launch-year markers on the file are still 2009 (Rogan), 2017 (Crime Junkie and The Daily), and 2018 (Armchair Expert). September 1 is a second dated recap of a frozen Spotify Top Podcasts board.
What today's Spotify trends reveal
Talk, true crime, and news, not music, fill every slot. Four comedy or interview shows (Rogan, Shawn Ryan, Theo Von, Matt and Shane) sit with two news-talk rows (The Daily, Tucker Carlson), one true-crime show (Crime Junkie), one host chat (Good Hang), one platform live row, and Armchair Expert at 10. Labor Day is Monday, September 7, 2026; September 1 is the Tuesday before that weekend, a listening pattern that does not require a new chart order.
Identical ranks versus August 31 mean this is not a holiday one-day spike. Edison Q1 2026 already had Rogan, Crime Junkie, and The Daily as the top three U.S. shows, which matches the idea of fixtures. Episode names and download totals are omitted because they were not in the feed. The Spotify Top Podcasts API is the check that the ten names did not move overnight.
Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP
This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends call below. Podcast teams use that feed to watch Spotify Top Podcasts day over day without copying the public chart by hand.
{
"type": "Spotify Top Podcasts",
"limit": 10
}
Limit 10 is the published slice. Ranks 11 and beyond stay on the live API.