Music podcast

Created and hosted by Kris Kosach, AudioFile Airwav was initially available only through techtv.com and syndicated on TechTV Radio until it was uploaded by James Kim to the iTunes Music Store in 2005.

The show, hosted by Austin Jackson, was called the Boston Audio HiFi Industry Podcast.

In each episode, Austin Jackson would take user-submitted questions and spend thirty minutes interviewing musicians and other figures in the music industry.

[17][18][19] However, Joe Budden took his podcast off of Spotify two years later when he decided that the company was too difficult to work with and was "pillaging his audience.

[25] In 2020, The platform released the Spotify exclusive Disney music podcast entitled Soul Stories on Christmas Day.

[37] Google launched its first music podcast, entitled City Soundtracks, around the same time Spotify released Showstopper.

[42] According to Marcus J. Moore of the Washington Post, the All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts podcasts consistently top the iTunes and Stitcher charts with 2.3 million downloads a month as of April 2016.

[48] John Kennedy of Clash Magazine compiled a list of the best music podcasts to listen to during the COVID-19 pandemic lock down.

[50] Anne Bensfield and Pamela Rogers of the School Library Journal compiled a list of the best music podcasts for starting off the year 2021.

[55] The 2021 iHeartRadio nominees for best music podcast include Bobbycast by The Nashville Podcast Network, Broken Record by Pushkin Industries, Disgraceland by Jake Brennan, Dolly Parton's America by WNYC & OSM Audio, and Song Exploder by Hrishikesh Hirway.

[56] Dolly Parton's America by WNYC & OSM Audio won the 2021 iHeartRadio award for best Music Podcast.