Hamish & Andy have once again topped the Australian Podcast Ranker for April, marking their 20th time at the top. The popular duo reached 918,977 listeners and had 1.775 million downloads in April, according to the ranker from Commercial Radio and Audio (CRA) and Triton Digital.

In second place was once again Casefile True Crime from Audioboom, with 814,928 monthly listeners and 1.959m downloads. Rounding out the top five were ABC News Top Stories making its debut at number three (668,722 monthly listeners and 1.896m downloads), Mamamia Out Loud (547,801 monthly listeners and 1.384m downloads, down one place), and Shameless by Shameless Media (527,448 monthly listeners and 969,960 downloads, down one place).

The rest of the top 10 were The Imperfects on ARN / iHeart, Conversations on ABC, Life Uncut on ARN / iHeart, The Kyle & Jackie O Show on Arn / iHeart and Australian True Crime by Bravecasting / Acast.

In terms of genre, the Australian Podcast Ranker’s top five genres for April 2024 by monthly listeners were:

1. Society & Culture (4,411,006)
2. News (3,932,702)
3. True Crime (3,820,224)
4. Comedy (3,506,896)
5. Sports (3,431,151)

Across the media players, ARN/iHeart topped the ranks as publisher with 4,502,226 monthly listeners, followed by LiSTNR (SCA) with 3,670,817. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2,334,419), Audioboom (2,188,572) and SiriusXM Podcast Network (2,100,047) filled out the top five.

Meanwhile, LiSTNR again topped the sales representation network chart, its 20th time in top position out of a possible 22 times, with more than 7.29m listeners. Over April, it saw an increase of 172,000 monthly listeners month-on-month. Year-on-year, Listn’rs owned and operated podcast titles grew by 257,000 monthly listeners.

In all, LiSTNR had 19 podcasts in the top 20, some owned, some distributed. Others included Crime Junkie, 7am with Schwarz Media, happy Hour with Lucky & Nikki, and It’s a Lot with Abbie Chatfield. The platform also noted Betoota Talks and Prosecuting Donald Trump made a return to the top 200 ranker.

“LiSTNR has shown audience growth across its owned and operated podcast slate as well as its partner titles. Hamish & Andy has again taken the number one position and LiSTNR remains the number one sales representation network,” SCA Executive Head LiSTNR Podcasts, Grant Tothill, said.

“To see audience growth of our radio and original podcasts that has materialised into a record revenue month for LiSTNR is an outstanding achievement by everyone, and along with our new LiSTNR AdTech Hub, our sales team continues to offer advertisers more and more reasons to reach different audiences at scale.”

LiSTNR (SCA) incorporates both its owned products plus Schwartz Media, SiriusXM Podcast Network, audiochuck, Wondery/DM Podcasts and NBCUniversal News Group.

In second place by sales representation was ARN/iHeart (6,913,566), which includes ARN, iHeartMedia, Audioboom, AdLarge Media, Sport Social Podcast Network, The Investors Podcast Network, All Ears English, Sony Music, Clubby Sports, NZME, TED and The Athletic.

NOVA Entertainment was third with NOVA Entertainment, News Corp Australia and Podshape (2,287,156), while News Corp Australia made fourth (1,645,825) and Mamamia fifth (1,262,624).

The Australian Podcast Ranker is a monthly snapshot of the top 200 podcasts listened to by Australians, the top 200 Australian podcasts, the 20 biggest publishers and the 20 most successful podcast sales representatives.