1.3 million people tuned into the first hour of Taylor Swift\u2019s podcast appearance. That\u2019s nearly twice the number of those who initially tuned into Trump\u2019s appearance on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast. Trump, who had a nine-month head start, has more overall listeners, but Swift\u2019s appearance is catching up quickly.<\/p>\n
Back in May, President Trump took to social media to declare Taylor Swift was \u201cno longer \u2018HOT.\u2019\u201d He might want to rethink that position.<\/p>\n
The pop star\u2019s appearance on the New Heights podcast<\/a> this week attracted 1.3 concurrent million viewers<\/a> in its first hour. That\u2019s just shy of twice the number of those who tuned into The Joe Rogan Experience last October, when Trump was a guest<\/a>. Trump\u2019s appearance brought in 800,000 viewers in its first hour.<\/p>\n Swift\u2019s<\/a> appearance also led to a massive boost in subscribers for the Travis and Jason Kelce podcast, with the total jumping from 2.85 million to 2.91 million people. The appearance was such an event that it overwhelmed YouTube<\/a>. An hour and 44 minutes into the podcast, the live premiere cut to black. The show\u2019s official account on X\/Twitter<\/a> posted minutes later that the stream \u201cwill be back shortly\u201d once technical issues were corrected.<\/p>\n In the longer run, Trump\u2019s appearance still has more overall views. To date, it has been watched 59 million times in the past nine months. Meanwhile, as of Friday morning, the YouTube version of the New Heights podcast had hit 15 million viewers. Swift could catch up swiftly, though. On Thursday, Spotify<\/a> said the New Heights episode, where she announced her new album and gave fans insight into her life, was one of its most popular podcasts of the past year, increasing the average number of listeners by 3,000%.<\/p>\n Trump has had something of a one-sided feud with Swift since 2020, when she endorsed Biden in the presidential race. He attempted to revive that in May and then again early August, calling the singer \u201cwoke\u201d and claiming: \u201cEver since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying \u2026 that I can\u2019t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT.\u201d<\/p>\n Swift has not replied to Trump\u2019s taunts.\n<\/p>\n