In 2024, we're living in the age of the podcast. Every week, we're inundated with new shows across genres like tech, true crime, pop culture, comedy, and health, with more and more people choosing podcasting as their preferred medium to get their message across. In many ways, this is a great thing: we love nothing more than popping in our AirPods and tuning the world out for a 50-minute episode. But when it comes to finding a new show amidst all this choice, things can get tricky. Luckily Apple Podcasts have made perfecting your listening experience a little easier, with their release of the most popular shows on the platform in Australia this year.

Whether you're on the hunt for a new show, or are just curious to see if your faves made the list, we're rounding up the most popular podcasts according to the Apple Podcast charts, below.

The top 10 shows of 2024 in Australia

1. The Imperfects
2. Conversations
3. Casefile True Crime 
4. Mamamia Out Loud
5. No Filter
6. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett 
7. Huberman Lab
8. The Rest Is History 
9. Hamish & Andy 
10. True Crime Conversations 

The top new shows of 2024 in Australia 

1. Bronwyn
2. The Mushroom Cook
3. The Missing Campers Trial 
4. Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw Mystery
5. Witness: William Tyrrell
6. The Louis Theroux Podcast
7. The Ultimate Sacrifice 
8. The Truth About Amy
9. Troubled Waters
10. MID 

The top episodes of 2024 in Australia 

1. Episode 1: Jon’s Castle, Bronwyn  
2. The Lunch I 1, The Mushroom Cook
3. Episode 1: Fight Like a Mother, The Bakersfield Three 
4. Dr Louise Newson - Maybe it’s Menopause, The Imperfects 
5. Hamish & Andy 2023 Ep 240
6. Case 269: Caroline Crouch, Casefile True Crime  
7. The House Next Door, Ghost Story 
8. 1 I Til Death Parts Us, Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw Mystery  
9. Episode 1: Locate and identify, Troubled Waters
10. Andy Lee on Failing Upwards, No Filter  

The most shared shows of 2024 in Australia 

1. The Imperfects 
2. The Rest Is History 
3. Ghost Story 
4. Bronwyn 
5. Huberman Lab
6. The Mushroom Cook
7. Pop Culture Parenting 
8. Conversations 
9. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett 
10. The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

The most shared episodes of 2024

1. Dr Louise Newson - Maybe it’s Menopause, The Imperfects  
2. Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity, Huberman Lab
3. The #1 Menopause Doctor: How to Lose Belly Fat, Sleep Better, & Stop Suffering Now, The Mel Robbins Podcast 
4. The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver, Diary Of A CEO
5. Jayashri Kulkarni: our hormones and our minds, Conversations
6. When Sleep Isn’t Enough: The Seven Types of Rest, No Filter
7. Episode 1: Jon’s Castle, Bronwyn 
8. #340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil, Making Sense With Sam Harris 
9. How Maggie Dent Helps Dads Dad, How Other Dads Dad with Hamish Blake 
10. Titanic: The Tragedy Begins (Part 1), The Rest Is History

The most followed shows

1. Bronwyn 
2. The Rest Is History 
3. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
4. The Imperfects
5. Huberman Lab
6. The Mushroom Cook
7. The Missing Campers Trial
8. The Joe Rogan Experience 
9. The Bakersfield Three 
10. Ghost Story

Want more recommendations? Check out what the RUSSH editors were watching, reading, and listening to this month.

Feature images via IMDb, Apple Podcasts.