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- 🇨🇦CA · Music#42100K to 300K
- 🇺🇸US · Music#5130K to 100K
- 🇦🇺AU · Music#6530K to 100K
- 🇮🇳IN · Music#9110K to 30K
- 🇸🇪SE · Music#1481K to 10K
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91K to 290K🎙 ~2x weekly·211 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
182K to 579K🇨🇦52%🇺🇸17%🇦🇺17%+8 more - Active Followers
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73K to 232K
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More Than a Feeling Edition
Jun 13, 2026
50m 50s
Near-Miss Hits: ’70s Edition
May 30, 2026
35m 32s
Dancing With Himself Edition
May 15, 2026
44m 29s
Introducing History Daily: "The Launch of MTV"
Apr 24, 2026
17m 09s
The Queen of Disco Edition Part 2 (Encore)
Apr 24, 2026
41m 28s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/13/26 | ![]() More Than a Feeling Edition✨ | power balladsmusic history+4 | — | Slate Podcasts | — | power balladsmusic history+5 | — | 50m 50s | |
| 5/30/26 | ![]() Near-Miss Hits: ’70s Edition✨ | 1970s musicnear misses+4 | — | Slate Podcasts | — | We Are FamilyTiny Dancer+5 | — | 35m 32s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Dancing With Himself Edition✨ | Billy Idolmusic genres+4 | — | Sex PistolsWhite Wedding | — | Billy IdolWhite Wedding+5 | — | 44m 29s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Introducing History Daily: "The Launch of MTV"✨ | music historyMTV+3 | — | MTV | — | MTVLindsay Graham+5 | — | 17m 09s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() The Queen of Disco Edition Part 2 (Encore)✨ | Donna Summerdisco music+5 | — | Rock and Roll Hall of FameSlate Podcasts+1 | — | Donna Summerdisco+7 | — | 41m 28s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() The Queen of Disco Edition Part 1 (Encore)✨ | Donna Summerdisco+4 | — | the Rock and Roll Hall of FameHit Parade+8 | Chicago | Queen of Discomusic influence+1 | — | 31m 18s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Feet on the Ground, Reaching for the Stars Edition Part 2✨ | Casey KasemAmerican Top 40+2 | — | Apple PodcastsSpotify+8 | — | radiopop music+1 | — | 52m 13s | |
| 3/21/26 | ![]() Feet on the Ground, Reaching for the Stars Edition Part 1✨ | chart fandommusic charts+1 | — | Apple PodcastsSpotify+8 | — | Hit Parademusic history+1 | — | 56m 13s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Country Roads and Summer Nights Edition Part 2✨ | country musicpop music+3 | — | GreaseXanadu+7 | NashvilleDenver+2 | John DenverOlivia Newton-John+3 | — | 55m 24s | |
| 2/14/26 | ![]() Country Roads and Summer Nights Edition Part 1✨ | country musicpop music+3 | — | MuppetHit Parade+8 | NashvilleDenver+2 | John DenverOlivia Newton-John+3 | — | 1h 04m 03s | |
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| 1/30/26 | ![]() Starman to Blackstar Edition Part 2✨ | David Bowiemusic history+2 | — | StarmanBlackstar+8 | London | StarmanBlackstar+6 | — | 57m 14s | |
| 1/17/26 | ![]() Starman to Blackstar Edition Part 1✨ | David Bowiemusic history+2 | — | StarmanBlackstar+8 | London | StarmanBlackstar+6 | — | 1h 04m 32s | |
| 12/26/25 | ![]() The Bridge: Slate’s Music Club 2025✨ | music trendsalbum reviews+4 | Lindsay ZoladzJulianne Escobedo Shepherd | SpotifyHearing Things+11 | — | Bad BunnyDemon Hunters+3 | — | 40m 10s | |
| 12/26/25 | ![]() Hooked to the Silver Screen Edition Part 2✨ | Hollywoodpop charts+2 | — | Acastthe Silver Screen Edition+3 | Hollywood | Snow White and the Seven DwarfsKPop Demon Hunters+2 | — | 52m 45s | |
| 12/12/25 | ![]() Hooked to the Silver Screen Edition Part 1✨ | Hollywoodpop charts+2 | — | Snow White and the Seven DwarfsKPop Demon Hunters+4 | Hollywood | movie musichit songs+1 | — | 1h 06m 15s | |
| 11/28/25 | ![]() Pour Some Sugar on Me Edition Part 2 | When you hear the term “superproducer,” names like George Martin, Quincy Jones, Max Martin, Pharrell Williams or Missy Elliott might come to mind. But … Robert “Mutt” Lange? Probably not. Yet Lange was by some measures the biggest hitmaker—the producer of more top-selling albums than any of those better-known producers.The South African studio wiz crafted the arena-rock sound of AC/DC and Def Leppard. Then, Lange transformed the Cars, Billy Ocean, Bryan Adams, and Shania Twain into fist-pumping stadium-fillers, too.Join Chris Molanphy as he traces Mutt Lange’s legacy of loud—and his uncanny success on the pop charts. He poured sugar on every hit.Podcast production by Kevin Bendis.Get more Hit Parade with Slate Plus! Join for monthly early-access episodes, bonus episodes of "The Bridge," and ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Hit Parade show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/hitparadeplus to get access wherever you listen. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/15/25 | ![]() Pour Some Sugar on Me Edition Part 1 | When you hear the term “superproducer,” names like George Martin, Quincy Jones, Max Martin, Pharrell Williams or Missy Elliott might come to mind. But … Robert “Mutt” Lange? Probably not. Yet Lange was by some measures the biggest hitmaker—the producer of more top-selling albums than any of those better-known producers.The South African studio wiz crafted the arena-rock sound of AC/DC and Def Leppard. Then, Lange transformed the Cars, Billy Ocean, Bryan Adams, and Shania Twain into fist-pumping stadium-fillers, too.Join Chris Molanphy as he traces Mutt Lange’s legacy of loud—and his uncanny success on the pop charts. He poured sugar on every hit.Podcast production by Kevin Bendis.Get more Hit Parade with Slate Plus! Join for monthly early-access episodes, bonus episodes of "The Bridge," and ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Hit Parade show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/hitparadeplus to get access wherever you listen. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/12/25 | ![]() The Slate Culture Gift Guide | Hark, the holiday season is upon us—and with it, the most solemn of festive traditions: a gift guide! In this video and podcast special, Slate hosts Dana Stevens, Chris Molanphy, and Willa Paskin beam in from their collective hearths to deliver unto the internet their favorite gifts for culture lovers. In addition to sharing gifts, they also discuss the cultural artifact that is the “holiday gift guide,” and its history going back to the early 20th century, up to the modern day. See the entirety of the 1910 gift guide Our Special Holiday Gift-Book from Greenhut-Siegel Cooper, and Esquire’s ultra-mod gift guide from 1961. Check out our gift recommendations below: Dana Stevens’ Cozy Movie Night-In: The Salbree Collapsible Silicone Microwave Popcorn Popper & Amish Country Popcorn L'agraty Chunky Knit Blanket Throw The Adventures of Antoine Doinel, The Criterion Collection Box SetChris Molanphy’s Hit Parade Collection: The Beatles’ Revolver CD Box Set Mad Men Blu-Ray Box Set Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year, by Michaelangelo MatosWilla Paskin’s Fruit-Themed Trompe-l'œil Housewares: Cantaloupe-shaped bowls in the style of Bordallo Pinheiro 4-Pack Orange-Shaped Candle Stocking Stuffer Cherry-Shaped Toilet BrushThe Slate Culture Gift Guide is produced for Slate Studios by Benjamin Frisch and Micah Phillips, with Meryl Bezrutczyk and Andrew Harding. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | ![]() If You Love Sting, Set Him Free Edition Part 2 | Walk into any store or flip on a radio, and you’ll probably hear the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” sooner or later. Thanks to that ubiquity, the swooning, menacing megahit’s songwriter—Sting—is a very wealthy man.Now his former bandmates, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, are suing Sting over who deserves to profit from “Breath” and other Police songs. No matter how that dispute turns out, it’s a reminder of Sting’s uncanny songwriting skill and his charmed life of hitmaking.For more than four decades, Sting seems to resurface every few years with a new earworm, from “Roxanne” to “Russians,” blending New Wave rock with another genre—reggae, jazz, classical, country, even rap and Raï—and in the process, getting sampled by new generations of millennial and zoomer hitmakers.Join Chris Molanphy as he recounts the long, varied, sophisticated, but catchy career of the King of Pain. Whatever he tries, every little thing Sting does is magic. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/18/25 | ![]() If You Love Sting, Set Him Free Edition Part 1 | Walk into any store or flip on a radio, and you’ll probably hear the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” sooner or later. Thanks to that ubiquity, the swooning, menacing megahit’s songwriter—Sting—is a very wealthy man.Now his former bandmates, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, are suing Sting over who deserves to profit from “Breath” and other Police songs. No matter how that dispute turns out, it’s a reminder of Sting’s uncanny songwriting skill and his charmed life of hitmaking.For more than four decades, Sting seems to resurface every few years with a new earworm, from “Roxanne” to “Russians,” blending New Wave rock with another genre—reggae, jazz, classical, country, even rap and Raï—and in the process, getting sampled by new generations of millennial and zoomer hitmakers.Join Chris Molanphy as he recounts the long, varied, sophisticated, but catchy career of the King of Pain. Whatever he tries, every little thing Sting does is magic. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/26/25 | ![]() Toppermost of the Poppermost Edition Part 2 | In the rarefied world of smash pop singles, there are No. 1s—and there are No. 1 debuts. Entering Billboard’s Hot 100 at the top is one of the hardest tricks in music. In fact, it wasn’t possible in the U.S. until 1995. That’s when the record labels hacked the Hot 100 and figured out how to send new singles straight into the chart penthouse. But scoring a No. 1 in Week One doesn’t mean it’s built to last. For every enduring hit like “Fantasy,” “Shake It Off” or “Hello,” there are plenty of one-off oddities, coronation pabulum from American Idol finalists, and even a few missteps from chart luminaries. Within a couple of years these fast-breaking hits may be forgotten—never to be spun on the radio or streamed on Spotify.Join Chris Molanphy as he explores the chart calculus, superfan interventions, and fluky conditions that create a perfect storm of pop-chart insta-success. It’s a parade of pop bangers that scored a fast pass to the front of the line.Get more Hit Parade with Slate Plus! Join for monthly early-access episodes, bonus episodes of "The Bridge," and ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Hit Parade show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/hitparadeplus to get access wherever you listen.Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Olivia Briley. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/13/25 | ![]() Toppermost of the Poppermost Edition Part 1 | In the rarefied world of smash pop singles, there are No. 1s—and there are No. 1 debuts. Entering Billboard’s Hot 100 at the top is one of the hardest tricks in music. In fact, it wasn’t possible in the U.S. until 1995. That’s when the record labels hacked the Hot 100 and figured out how to send new singles straight into the chart penthouse. But scoring a No. 1 in Week One doesn’t mean it’s built to last. For every enduring hit like “Fantasy,” “Shake It Off” or “Hello,” there are plenty of one-off oddities, coronation pabulum from American Idol finalists, and even a few missteps from chart luminaries. Within a couple of years these fast-breaking hits may be forgotten—never to be spun on the radio or streamed on Spotify.Join Chris Molanphy as he explores the chart calculus, superfan interventions, and fluky conditions that create a perfect storm of pop-chart insta-success. It’s a parade of pop bangers that scored a fast pass to the front of the line.Get more Hit Parade with Slate Plus! Join for monthly early-access episodes, bonus episodes of "The Bridge," and ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Hit Parade show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/hitparadeplus to get access wherever you listen.Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Olivia Briley. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/29/25 | ![]() The White and Nerdy Edition Part 2 | Sped-up voices. Wacky instruments. Songs about cavemen, bathtubs, bikinis, and mothers-in-law. From the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll through the 1970s—the age of streaking, CB radios, disco and King Tut—novelty songs could be chart-topping hits. But by the corporate ’80s, it was harder for goofballs to score hits on regimented radio playlists. Until one perm-headed, mustachioed, accordion-playing parodist who called himself “Weird” rebooted novelty hits for the new millennium. In the second part of this encore episode of Hit Parade, Chris Molanphy explores the history of novelty hits on the charts.Podcast production by Justin D. Wright and Kevin Bendis. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/15/25 | ![]() The White and Nerdy Edition Part 1 | Sped-up voices. Wacky instruments. Songs about cavemen, bathtubs, bikinis, and mothers-in-law. From the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll through the 1970s—the age of streaking, CB radios, disco and King Tut—novelty songs could be chart-topping hits. But by the corporate ’80s, it was harder for goofballs to score hits on regimented radio playlists. Until one perm-headed, mustachioed, accordion-playing parodist who called himself “Weird” rebooted novelty hits for the new millennium. In this encore episode of Hit Parade, Chris Molanphy explores the history of novelty hits on the charts.Podcast production by Justin D. Wright and Kevin Bendis. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/25/25 | ![]() Here's The Beef Edition Part 2 | When Kendrick Lamar took the Super Bowl halftime stage in 2025 and had the stadium chanting along to “Not Like Us,” it was clear: Diss tracks had gone stratospheric.The Kendrick vs. Drake beef echoes legendary rap rivalries like Biggie vs. Tupac and Jay-Z vs. Nas—but diss tracks stretch back through a century of American pop to the Tin Pan Alley era. Vaudeville singer Eddie Cantor, James Brown, John Lennon, Carly Simon, Kool Moe Dee, Lauryn Hill, and countless other artists have all tapped the hitmaking power of a personal grudge.Step this way and join Chris Molanphy as he traces the history of answer records, diss tracks, and rap beefs that shaped the charts—and the culture.Get more Hit Parade with Slate Plus! Join for monthly early-access episodes, bonus episodes of "The Bridge," and ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Hit Parade show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/hitparadeplus to get access wherever you listen.Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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