Apple Podcasts has shared annual rankings and charts that cover this year’s best and most popular podcasts shows, individual episodes, networks and creators.
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Introducing Apple Podcasts Best of 2021
Apple’s criteria for picking the best podcast shows of 2021 includes requirements like:
This year’s winners provided listeners with “a powerful sense of connection in a challenging and uncertain time,” reads a press release published on theApple Newsroom.
Best Show of the Year is “A Slight Change of Plans” with Maya Shankar from Pushkin Industries which revolves around stories about all sorts of change. One of the episodes discusses how Tiffany Haddish navigated the foster care system and discovered that she had a rare gift that would change her life. Another one focuses on John Elder Robison, who underwent experimental brain treatment to try and increase his emotional sensitivity.
Meanwhile, from WBUR and Futuro Studios, “Anything for Selena” with queer Chicana journalist Maria Garcia has been named Newcomer of the Year. The show explores what it means to belong through her relationship with artist Selena Quintanilla.
Apple Podcasts: The best shows of 2021
The following ten shows on Apple Podcasts defined 2021, according to Apple’s editors:
Apple Podcasts: The Best episodes of 2021
Aside from the best shows, Apple’s editorial team has selected the following episodes as being the most popular in 2021:
Apple Podcasts: 2021 charts
The Cupertino company also created the following charts to recognize the most popular new shows, free channels and individual shows and channels with subscriptions that launched in the US in 2021.
Top new shows
Top free channels
Top subscriptions
Individual shows
You can browse these charts atapple.co/podcasts.
Original podcasts are an effective way to secure return listeners. Apple knows this so it recentlylaunched its very first original, standalone showwhich tells the tale of one Tony Hathaway, a prolific bank robber that managed to take a lot of money in just a single year.
