

How Much Does Rogan Make for Spotify?Īs with the exact subscriber figures, it has not been specified how profitable Rogan has been for the streaming giant. Kim Kardashian's real crime series, The System, also enjoyed a brief stint at the top. Rogan's top spot faced a fleeting challenge from the Duchess of Sussex's podcast Archetypes, which briefly topped the chart earlier this year. The fourth and fifth slots are then both occupied by thriller/crime series, with Caso 63 coming in at number four and Crime Junkie rounding off the top five most popular podcasts in fifth place.


It was revealed in November that The Joe Rogan Experience has taken the number one slot for most popular podcast of the year globally.Ĭoming in second and third are Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy and Emma Chamberlain's Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain. Rogan signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Spotify back in 2020. "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast is pictured on Spotify's mobile app on January 31, 2022, in New York City. When it was revealed Spotify had lost 1.5 million paying subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, a company executive insisted that Rogan was not to blame, pointing the finger instead to the suspension of services in Russia. While Spotify does not publicly release its subscriber numbers for The Joe Rogan Experience, a Time article published in February 2022 reported that the podcast was averaging an estimated 11 million listeners per episode at the time.Ĭiting sources, The Hollywood Reporter reported in an April 2022 that Rogan's audience share has continued to steadily grow since arriving on Spotify, so it is likely that his current average episode numbers have been boosted as a result. How Many Followers Does Rogan Have on Spotify? The videos on YouTube likely prove all the more popular due to the fact that the Spotify versions of the episodes are audio only. Many of the videos posted on the channel have broken past the one million mark in views, while all have achieved a minimum of hundreds of thousands. Rogan's sizable audience has watched over the years as the host has welcomed a number of household names onto his show, including Senator Bernie Sanders, whistle-blower Edward Snowden, and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. While listeners can tune in to Rogan's podcast on Spotify, they can also watch highlights from the broadcasts on the media personality's PowerfulJRE YouTube channel, which currently has more than 13 million subscribers. The deal was widely reported at the time to be worth $100 million, although The New York Times reported in February 2022 that the true number for the three-and-a-half-year deal was "at least" $200 million. In December 2020, Rogan signed a licensing deal with Spotify for the platform's exclusive rights to broadcast the podcast. By 2015, it had grown to become one of the world's most popular podcasts, regularly pulling in millions of views. Rogan started his podcast on YouTube back in 2009. Rogan apologized amid the backlash and also said that the clips shared on social media had been taken out of context. The former Fear Factor host also came under fire for his repeated use of the N-word across multiple episodes. A number of artists have since returned to the platform. That also led to a backlash from several artists, including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, who took their music off Spotify in protest against sharing a platform with the podcaster. Ronald Martinez/Getty Images /LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images "The Joe Rogan Experience" remains Spotify's top podcast, after a tumultuous year. The background image shows a smartphone displaying the Joe Rogan podcast in Toulouse, southwestern France, on January 31, 2022. Joe Rogan is pictured on February 07, 2020, in Houston, Texas.
