It was only a matter of time before it happened but Joe Rogan and The Joe Rogan Experience has lost the #1 spot on the podcast charts. Maintaining the #1 spot forever is impossible but with Rogan’s guest, Adam Curry, being known as ‘The Podfather’ it seems like an odd time for such a massive dip in listeners and downloads to bump the JRE off the throne.

Rogan has, for pretty much the entirety of the existence of his podcast, occupied the #1 spot on the podcast charts. Even on a ‘down episode’ his Joe Rogan Experience is reaching nearly 50 million listeners. But somehow The MeidasTouch Podcast has usurped JRE according to the latest data.

This story picked up mainstream momentum after Meidas Touch posted a screenshot earlier this week on X (née Twitter) showing The MeidasTouch Podcast taking over the #1 spot ahead of Rogan:

Following that screenshot, the story got picked up by Newsweek and other mainstream media outlets. The source of this data is Podscribe which tracks podcast downloads and streams across platforms.

For the most recent episode, somehow the MeidasTouch Podcast has snatched the #1 spot with a reported ~698K downloads and streams to the most recent episode (up 49%) but a whopping ~58.1 million downloads and streams in the past month, which would mark a 110% increase in DLs and streams for the show.