NPR shows available as Spotify Podcasts giving worldwide listeners the opportunity to connect with NPR’s daily source of wisdom and entertainment previously available only to Americans. Every day, millions connect with NPR and NPR Member stations across the US for everything from pop culture podcasts to the nightly news. In 2018 Spotify announced that US fans of NPR would also be able to stream select NPR shows on Spotify, making NPR’s offerings available in one convenient place. Starting today, some NPR shows can be heard as Spotify podcasts in countries where Spotify podcasts are available.
This distribution deal between Spotify and NPR will allow the streamer to distribute NPR’s content globally on Spotify, bringing NPR’s podcasts to a global audience of 320 million Spotify users. Now, listeners outside of the US can also stream:
- Wow in the World
- 1A
- Ask Me Another
- Believed
- The Best of Car Talk
- Code Switch
- Consider This from NPR
- Embedded
- Here and Now
- How I Built This with Guy Raz
- Invisibilia
- Life Kit
- Louder Than A Riot
- No Compromise
- NPR News Now
- The NPR Politics Podcast
- Planet Money
- Radio Ambulante
- Rough Translation
- Short Wave
- StoryCorps
- TED Radio Hour
- Throughline
- Up First
- Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
- White Lies
The top 5 most popular NPR podcasts on Spotify to date are:
- NPR News Now
- TED Radio Hour
- Up First
- Short Wave
- Planet Money
And these can be found in a “Best Podcasts of NPR” playlist.
