Spotify finally reveals how many listeners Joe Rogan has – his audience is gigantic



Spotify has never revealed how many listeners Joe Rogan has on his massively popular podcast – until now. "The Joe Rogan Experience" has a gigantic audience – triple the size of the next most-listened-to podcast on the streaming platform.

In February, the Wall Street Journal reported that Rogan had signed a new multiyear deal with Spotify worth an estimated $250 million. By re-signing with the streaming behemoth, Rogan reportedly received an upfront minimum guarantee and revenue-sharing based on sales of advertisements. The contract is a three-year deal, according to the New York Daily News.

In a press release announcing the new contract, Rogan stated:

Cool conversations are a kind of mental nourishment, and if you’re never around interesting people, and you don’t get to have conversations with people who are exceptional, I think it’s almost a kind of social starvation. I think that’s why so many people like to listen to podcasts — because you can be a fly on the wall and experience the inner workings of the mind of someone way different than anyone you would normally encounter in your life.

Also in the press release regarding Rogan's new deal, Spotify proclaimed him to be "podcasting’s king," adding that "The Joe Rogan Experience" is "consistently ranking as the most-listened-to podcast globally and our users have ranked the show as Spotify’s Wrapped top podcast each year since 2020."

However, Spotify had previously never released any actual audience totals for the prolific podcaster.

In February, Spotify quietly rolled out a new feature that revealed how many followers each of the podcasts on the streaming service have.

Bloomberg was the first to report on the new feature, and revealed that "The Joe Rogan Experience" has 14.5 million followers. The gigantic total is nearly three times more than the next most popular program – "TED Talks Daily." In third place is the "Call Her Daddy" podcast with 3.7 million followers.

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Rogan's new deal brings his entertainment show back to YouTube, where it previously had massive success. The podcast was yanked from YouTube after Rogan signed his 2020 exclusive deal with Spotify, which is said to be worth $100 million.

The top three YouTube episodes include: "Joe Rogan Experience" #1315 – Bob Lazar & Jeremy Corbell (58 million views), "The Joe Rogan Experience" #1368 – Edward Snowden (38 million views), and "The Joe Rogan Experience" #1470 – Elon Musk (33 million views).

Rogan has more than 16.4 followers on YouTube.

Earlier this month, musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell announced they were returning their music catalog to Spotify after a boycott aimed at Rogan.

Young, followed by Mitchell, took their music off Spotify for allowing "irresponsible people" who were “spreading lies that are costing people their lives" regarding COVID-19 vaccines. The shot was aimed at getting Rogan pulled from the platform for continually questioning the official coronavirus narrative.

Young walked back his protest and brought back his music to Spotify.

"My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I opposed at SPOTIFY," Young said this month.

"I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did with Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all," he continued. "So I have returned to Spotify, in sincere hopes that Spotify sound quality will improve and people will be able to hear and feel all the music as we made it."

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Pentagon confirms leaked video of 'pyramid-shaped' UFO is real



The Pentagon confirmed that a leaked video showing a triangle-shaped object hovering over a U.S. warship is genuine, as well as a UFO sighting by U.S. Navy personnel flying in an F-18.

Video recorded in 2019 by someone on a U.S. Navy destroyer was leaked and posted online by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell on April 8. The UFO was recorded by Navy personnel on the USS Russell while sailing off the coast of San Diego.

"These are authentic photos and video from actual military encounters with UFOs - generated to educate high-level intelligence officers within our military on the nature and presentation of the UAP / UFO phenomenon," Corbell wrote on his Extraordinary Beliefs website.

"In 2019 the US Navy photographed and filmed 'pyramid' shaped UFOs and advanced transmedium vehicles," Corbell captioned the video.

2019 the US Navy filmed “PYRAMID" shaped UFOs; here is that footagewww.youtube.com

Corbell is best known for directing "Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers," a documentary about a physicist who claims to have worked for the U.S. government at Area 51, where he allegedly reverse-engineered alien spacecraft for the military in the 1980s.

Photos of an unidentified flying object captured by an F-18 weapons systems officer on March 4, 2019, resurfaced earlier this month by Mystery Wire, a site "dedicated to reports on Area 51, UFOs, military technology, paranormal, mysteries."

Three photos of UAPs were taken from the cockpit of the F-18: one "sphere" shaped, another "acorn" shaped, and one described as a "metallic blimp." The photos have been previously posted online.

On Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed that the video of unidentified aerial phenomena flying above a U.S. destroyer and photos of UFOs near the jet fighter are real.

"I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel," Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough said in a statement to the Black Vault, a privately run archive of declassified documents that includes UFO-related documents obtained through freedom of information laws. "As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP."

CNN confirmed the Pentagon statement on the photos and videos involving UFOs, noting that the spokesperson said the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, created in August to investigate UFO sightings by the U.S. military, has "included these incidents in their ongoing examinations."

Previously in 2019, the Pentagon verified the existence and authenticity of videos published in 2017 and 2018 of UFOs that were encountered by U.S. Navy pilots years earlier.

Chad Underwood, the Navy pilot who filmed the "Tic Tac" UFO video noted that the aircraft "wasn't behaving within the normal laws of physics." He added that the UAP had "no sign of propulsion. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible."

Gimbal: The First Official UAP Footage from the USG for Public Releasewww.youtube.com

Go Fast: Official USG Footage of UAP for Public Releasewww.youtube.com

Corbell and Lazar appeared on "The Joe Rogan Experience" in 2019 to discuss UFOs and Area 51. The episode is one of the more popular "JRE" interviews, racking up nearly 15 million views on YouTube.

Joe Rogan Experience #1315 - Bob Lazar & Jeremy Corbellwww.youtube.com