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Monday 21 September 2026 · Jessica · Salsa class · Chelsea · 20 s

On Apple's chart tonight, three of the top ten podcasts in America are true crime and five of the top twenty-five. Crime Junkie is number two. Jessica, at her Monday salsa class in Chelsea, would rather dance.

Apple Podcasts' US top chart, read tonight (22 Sept 00:24 UTC): The Daily is number one, Crime Junkie (Audiochuck) number two, Morbid number six, Dateline NBC number ten, In The Dark (The New Yorker) twelve, 20/20 seventeen: five true-crime shows in the top twenty-five, three in the top ten. The tape's own audience measure, Particle's popularity percentile, puts Crime Junkie at 99.998, second only to The Daily, with Dateline, Morbid, My Favorite Murder, Casefile and Sword and Scale all above 99.8. The podcast layer carries 66 spans from My Favorite Murder this year and a handful each from Crime Junkie, Casefile and Sword and Scale: mentions of companies, countries and people inside the episodes. The listed platforms: Spotify is down 10% this year, SiriusXM up 34%, iHeart down 42%. Jessica's Monday night is a salsa class in Chelsea. She is wearing Theory.

in plain EnglishThe most popular podcasts in America are, to a striking degree, about murder. Tonight's Apple chart has three true-crime shows in the top ten and five in the top twenty-five, with Crime Junkie at number two behind only the New York Times' news show. Jessica notices this at her Monday salsa class and offers a theory: the news is frightening enough, and a murder story at least ends. She'd rather dance.
Reported Monday 21 September 2026 · every number dated to its source, latest 21 September 2026
1 · evidence every number, with its source and its date
#1 The Daily · #2 Crime Junkie · #6 Morbid · #10 Dateline NBC · #12 In The Dark · #17 20/20
Apple Podcasts, US, tonight
Apple Podcasts top chart (rss.applemarketingtools.com), 22 Sept 00:24 UTC · 2026-09-21
3 of the top 10 and 5 of the top 25 are true crime
The count
Apple Podcasts top chart, genres as Apple tags them · 2026-09-21
Popularity percentile (Particle): Crime Junkie 99.998 · Dateline 99.99 · Morbid 99.98 · My Favorite Murder 99.91 · Casefile 99.86 · Sword and Scale 99.82 (The Daily = 100)
Audience, on the tape
show_popularity on the podcast layer of the AirPort tape · 2026-09-21
Dateline 91 · My Favorite Murder 44 · Morbid 12 · Casefile 7 · Crime Junkie 4 · Sword and Scale 3
Episodes on the tape this year
_spans_podcast, distinct episodes with tagged mentions, 2026 · 2026-09-21
My Favorite Murder: 66 spans · Casefile 8 · Crime Junkie 7 · Sword and Scale 3 (mentions of companies, countries and people inside the episodes)
On the tape this year
_spans_podcast on the AirPort tape, 2026 · 2026-09-21
Spotify (SPOT) $516.77, −10% this year · SiriusXM (SIRI) $27.44, +34% · iHeartMedia (IHRT) $2.41, −42%
The platforms
daily closes on the tape (Massive) to 21 Sept · 2026-09-21
2 · relations who this touches
3 · history · 4 · analogues · 5 · ask Pro
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