The Duchess of Sussex, 41, knocked Joe’s show, The Joe Rogan Experience, off the top spot on Spotify’s most-listened charts on Thursday, two days after launching her long-awaited Archetypes podcast. During the first 57-minute episode, Prince Harry’s wife, 37, discussed some of the struggles she says she faced being an “ambitious” woman with guest Serena Williams and made several revelations about her time. as a royal – claiming she was once forced to attend an event moments after her son Archie narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom. Her podcast was listened to by millions of people around the world and quickly rose to number one in the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK. Meghan Markle has officially dethroned Joe Rogan as the most popular podcast on Spotify – despite critics calling the first episode of her $18m show ‘absurd’ The former Duchess of Sussex, 41, knocked Joe’s show, The Joe Rogan Experience, off the top spot on Spotify’s most listened to charts with her podcast Archetypes. During the first episode, Prince Harry’s wife, 37, discussed some of the struggles she’s faced being an “ambitious” woman with guest Serena Williams (which aired in 2014) Meghan and Harry reportedly signed an $18 million, three-year podcast deal with Spotify for the new show — however, they actually signed the deal in December 2020, meaning it took the couple almost two years to production of the first episode. Despite the long wait, Archetypes quickly became the most-listened-to program on the app, which is likely a blow to Joe – who held the top spot on and off for more than two years. Joe discusses everything from current events and politics to science and philosophy on his weekly podcast, which premiered in December 2009. By October 2015, it was reported that his podcast was being downloaded 16 million times every month, and in May 2020, he signed a licensing deal with Spotify worth around $100 million. While Forbes reported that the podcaster has remained at the top of Spotify’s most popular podcasts list, this isn’t the first time he’s dropped to number two. In September 2021, the gaming podcast Banter With Sapnap and Karl Jacobs was briefly ranked number one, and in May 2022, the fantasy series Batman Unburied surpassed Joe’s podcast. According to the report, each of its episodes now has over 11 million listeners. Joe and Megan actually have a rocky past — as he received hate online when he called the mom-of-two a “little American freak” on a February 2021 episode of the podcast. Soon after, all 113 episodes of it were mysteriously pulled from the platform , but returned a week later after issuing an apology. Her podcast was listened to by millions of people around the world and quickly rose to number one in the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK Meghan and Harry (who appeared in 2019) signed an $18 million podcast deal with Spotify for the new show in December 2020, so it took nearly two years to produce the first episode Despite the long wait, it quickly became the most listened to app, which is likely a blow to Joe – who held the top spot on and off for more than two years “There was a lot of s**t from the old podcast episodes that I wish I hadn’t said or said differently,” he wrote on Instagram, while addressing Meghan’s comment, as well as a racial slur that was used on his show. A month before that, he also came under fire for featuring a doctor named Robert Malone on his podcast who was accused of sharing miscommunication about the COVID-19 pandemic. Joe discusses everything from current events and politics to science and philosophy on his weekly podcast. Each of its episodes now has over 11 million listeners. Looks like July Artists such as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young have gone so far as to have their music removed from the platform because of it, with Joni calling on Spotify to “establish a clear and public policy to mitigate misinformation on its platform” in a letter published on her website. In it, he blasted Joe for “promoting baseless conspiracy theories” and blamed the streaming service for “enabling hosted media outlets to damage public trust in scientific research and cast doubt on the reliability of the data-based guidance they offer health professionals”. A Spotify spokesperson told the Washington Post at the time, “We want all the music and audio content in the world to be available to Spotify users. “With that comes a great responsibility to balance both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. “We have detailed content policies in place and have removed over 20,000 covid-19 related podcast episodes since the start of the pandemic.” In a wide-ranging discussion on the first episode of her much-anticipated podcast Archetypes, Meghan hit out at those who criticized her for being “ambitious” when she started dating Prince Harry. He also spoke of the “pain” he has suffered “behind closed doors”. Joe and Megan actually have a rocky past — as he received hate online when he called the mom-of-two a “little American freak” on a February 2021 episode of the podcast Meghan (who promoted the podcast) hit out at those who criticized her for being ‘ambitious’ when she started dating Prince Harry in the first episode “The misconception that if you’re an ambitious woman, you have an agenda, you have to be calculating or selfish or aggressive or a climber,” she said. “I don’t ever remember personally feeling the negative connotation behind the word ambitious until I started dating my now-husband,” she said. “And obviously ambition is a terrible, terrible thing. For a woman that is, according to some. “So after feeling the negativity behind it, it’s really hard to feel. I can’t even tell it to the millions of girls and women who make themselves smaller, so smaller on a regular basis. “The concept of ambition comes with many judgments and nuances – especially for women. “The misconception that if you’re an ambitious woman, you have an agenda, you have to be calculating or selfish or aggressive or a mountaineer. “And that if you’re that fierce or strong or brave, then you somehow deserve whatever comes your way – no matter how disproportionate or unfair it is, even when it’s more than most people could handle. Most men, most anyone.’ She later recalled a terrifying moment that took place in the fall of 2019, while the family was visiting South Africa for a royal tour, in which her young son’s nursery caught fire. “It was this moment where I’m standing on a tree stump and I’m giving this speech to women and girls, and we finish the engagement, get in the car and they say there’s a house fire,” he said. ‘What? There was a fire in the baby’s room. We’re back. And, of course, as a mother, you go, “Oh my God, what?” “Everybody’s in tears, everybody’s shaken. And what should we do? Go out and make another official engagement. I said, “That doesn’t make sense.” She later recalled a terrifying moment that took place in 2019 while the family was visiting South Africa, in which her son’s daycare caught fire. The family appears during the journey She claimed she was forced to attend an event moments after the incident, despite being in ‘tears’ and very ‘distraught’. Occurs in South Africa The couple had left their son at the condo unit they were staying in for a nap right after flying in for their visit, but the couple had to leave immediately to begin their tour. Archie’s nanny at the time, named only as Lauren, had taken him downstairs with her while she went to get a snack when the heater in the nursery caught fire. Meghan explained: “During the time she went downstairs, the heater in the nursery caught fire. “There was no smoke detector. Someone just smelled smoke in the hallway, went in, put out the fire. He was supposed to be sleeping in there.’ The duchess described wanting to tell the world what had happened but unable to. I was like, “Can you just tell people what happened?” And so much, I think, visually, the focus ends up being on how it looks instead of how it feels,” he continued. He also highlighted the need for more understanding of the “human moments behind the scenes”. “We had to leave our baby … and even though we moved to another place after that, we had to leave her and go do another official engagement,” she said, to which Serena replied: “I couldn’t have done that.’ Archetypes also topped HBO Max’s House of the Dragon podcast, in which people from the network discussed moments from the new Game of Thrones prequel series, as well as Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt’s Girls Next Level podcast. While the first episode was widely heard around the world, it was not well received critically – especially in the UK, where she and her husband of four years resided. While the first episode was widely heard around the world, it was not well received critically – especially in the UK, where she and her husband resided The Sunday Times called her podcast “absurd” and “a tastefully recorded parade of platitudes, absurdities and self-congratulatory California platitudes”. As fans know, the couple announced they were stepping down from their royal duties and cutting ties with the monarchy in 2020 and have since moved to Los Angeles, California, where they are raising their two children, Archie, three, and…
