Spotify Podcasts
The Joe Rogan Experience still leads Spotify Top Podcasts on September 2, 2026, with the same ten shows as the September 1 Spotify file and a 2026-09-02T06:01:39 stamp. The Daily climbs 6 to 5. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von climbs 7 to 6. Good Hang with Amy Poehler is the only slip, 5 to 7. None of those moves clear 5 ranks. The Tucker Carlson Show holds 9 as Nikki Haley's September 1 X post telling Vice President JD Vance to choose a side (Israel or Tucker Carlson) hits Google News at rank 8 via The Hill. No new Carlson episode title is attached to that rank.
Top trending podcasts on Spotify: September 2
The Joe Rogan Experience: Joe Rogan's long-form talk show, first aired December 24, 2009, holds rank 1 on a board that shuffled three mid-list rows and left the rest in place. 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 September 1. The row is Spotify's own live/talk slot, not an independent studio brand. No separate September 2 programming note was found.
Crime Junkie: 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, still in the talk block under Rogan and Spotify Live. No episode title is listed.
The Daily: The New York Times news briefing, launched in 2017, climbs from 6 to 5. Edison Q1 2026 had it at 3 in the U.S., and the one-rank Spotify gain is a catalog fixture moving inside the same ten, not a breaking-story debut.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: Theo Von's talk show climbs from 7 to 6, a one-rank gain inside the comedy-interview cluster with Rogan, Shawn Ryan, and Matt and Shane. No download figure is cited.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Rank 7 is a two-spot slip from 5, the largest move on the board and still well under a 5-rank jump. The host-chat show stays inside the same ten; no September 2 episode title is listed.
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast: Rank 8 is unchanged, still a mid-list comedy talk fixture. No episode title is listed.
The Tucker Carlson Show: Rank 9 is unchanged. Google News on September 2 carries The Hill's Haley-Vance-Carlson row at 8 after Haley's September 1 X post and Vance's Republican Jewish Coalition remarks in Las Vegas; the Spotify rank is a hold of the same show, not a claim of a new episode.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard: Dax Shepard's interview show, started in 2018, holds rank 10. Spotify still prints it at the floor of the same ten names.
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What changed on Spotify since yesterday
The ten show names match September 1. There is no new entrant and no drop-off. Rank moves: The Daily 6 to 5, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von 7 to 6, Good Hang with Amy Poehler 5 to 7. Holds: Joe Rogan Experience at 1, Spotify Live at 2, Crime Junkie at 3, Shawn Ryan Show at 4, Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast at 8, The Tucker Carlson Show at 9, Armchair Expert at 10. No title moved 5 or more places. The board is a three-row shuffle inside a fixture list, stamped 2026-09-02T06:01:39.
What today's Spotify trends reveal
Talk, true crime, and news still fill every slot, with a one-rank news-and-comedy rotate in the middle. Four interview or comedy 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 2 is the Wednesday before that weekend.
Good Hang's 5 to 7 slip is the widest move and still a two-rank event. The Daily and Theo each gained one. Carlson's hold at 9 lines up with a Google News fight that names the host, which is a news adjacency, not proof of a fresh drop. Episode names and download totals stay omitted because they were not in the feed. The Spotify Top Podcasts API is the check. Teams that price a catalog research stack can continue from Chartmetric pricing after the dated pull.
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. Growth lookups were skipped; ranked show names are not keyword windows on that tool.
{
"type": "Spotify Top Podcasts",
"limit": 10
}
Limit 10 is the published slice. Ranks 11 and beyond stay on the live API.