Batman Podcast Takes Down Joe Rogan On Podcast Charts

While CNN couldn't take down Joe Rogan, a podcast from its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery just did.

The new Batman Unburied podcast is the first show to dethrone Rogan atop Spotify's ranking since December 2021, when The Always Sunny Podcast held the top spot for a short time.

The podcast debuted May 3 and is still holding off Rogan as of publication, with more episodes to come.

Unburied is part of a licensing deal that Spotify signed with Warner Bros. Discovery, at the time called Warner Bros, in 2020 to exclusively stream podcasts from DC Comics.

Spotify explains the show as follows:

Now, that's a podcast worth trying.

Rogan will regain the top spot likely within the next week. The algorithm for podcast charts elevates programs that draw substantial new subscriptions in the first week above shows with more daily downloads. Meaning JRE will quickly overtake Batman once Unburied loses its first-week spike.

But even with that advantage, there have been pages worth of other high-profile podcasts on Spotify that were unable to rank above Rogan during their first week of release. So take nothing away from Batman Unburied. Few Spotify originals, if any, have been this successful early on.

It turns out that Batman, not CNN host Don Lemon, was the true threat to Joe Rogan's reign.