With 2023 almost at an end (yes, we know, it feels like we celebrated the New Year yesterday), Apple has shared its top lists of most popular podcasts and books. The company offers both free and premium podcasts on its Podcasts app, which is available for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
The charts are localized for folks in nearly 100 countries and regions, so you’ll get a different list depending on where you are. In the U.S., the lists of most popular podcasts are dominated by crime shows.
Here are the full lists of the most popular podcasts in 2023 in the U.S., according to Apple:
Top Shows
Crime Junkie
The Daily
Dateline NBC
SmartLess
This American Life
Morbid
Up First
Huberman Lab
Hidden Brain
Stuff You Should Know
Top New Shows
Scamanda
The Retrievals
The Deck Investigates
Murder & Magnolias
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The Girl in the Blue Mustang
The Coldest Case in Laramie
Murder in Apartment 12
The Girlfriends
Undetermined
Most Followed Shows
Huberman Lab
SmartLess
New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce
Scamanda
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Crime Junkie
The Retrievals
The Deck Investigates
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Most Shared Shows
Scamanda
Sold a Story
The Retrievals
Huberman Lab
SmartLess
The Witch Trials of J.K Rowling
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis Dreyfus
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
True Sunlight
Most Shared Episodes
Huberman Lab: “What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health”
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “Julia Gets Wise with Jane Fonda”
The Daily: “The Fight Over Phonics”
Hidden Brain: “The Paradox of Pleasure”
Sold a Story: “The Problem”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: “The ‘Let Them Theory’: A Life Changing Mindset Hack That 15 Million People Can’t Stop Talking About”
The Retrievals: “The Patients”
We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle: “Why We Love the Way We Love: Attachment Styles with Dr. Becky Kennedy”
Just B with Bethenny Frankel: “Reality Reckoning: Rachel Leviss (Part One)”
Serial: “The Alibi”
Top Free Channels
iHeartPodcasts
audiochuck
The New York Times
Dear Media
Serial Productions
Barstool Sports
ABC News
The Daily Wire
Scicomm Media
Cumulus Podcast Network
Top Subscriber Channels
Wondery
Dateline NBC
Pushkin
iHeart True Crime
Lemonada
Tenderfoot TV
TED Audio Collective
Freakonomics Radio
Radiolab
BBC Podcasts
Apple shares top books of 2023
Apple also revealed the top books of 2023, as well as a new Year in Review experience, available on the iPhone and iPad. You’ll find it in the Read Now tab, under Top Picks, but only if you have at least three titles marked as finished.
Year in Review will tell you what type of reader you are (based on anonymized reader insights); for example, if you like nonfiction titles, you’ll be designated as a Seeker, and if you hop across different genres, you’ll be a Wanderer. Other than that, the experience will show you how many books you’ve read and how many minutes you’ve spent reading them.
Credit: Apple
As for the most popular books of the year, here are the lists according to Apple:
Top Nonfiction Books of 2023
Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Top Fiction Books of 2023
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Top Nonfiction Audiobooks of 2023
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Top Fiction Audiobooks of 2023
Only the Dead by Jack Carr
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
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Apple has shared its lists of most popular podcasts and books of the year 2023.
