It was August 11, 2025 when ‘New Heights’ podcast just revealed their big breaking. Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift would be sitting together for their latest episode of their show. The news that Taylor would be joining the Kelce brothers already created the big hype. And following the release of the episode on August 13, the views of the video touched the clouds in seconds.
However, while the episode did give fans and media plenty of headlines, the cherry on the cake was added with the recent update of Taylor Swift releasing her new album, Life of a Show Girl. Amid all of it, the 13 August episode of ‘New Heights’ podcast just broke all records. And guess what! It just overtook Donald Trump’s episode on ‘the Joe Rogan Experience’.
Did Taylor Swift just beat Donald Trump in the podcast game?
Last Wednesday, on August 13 itself the views crossed a staggering 1.3 million mark. To watch the lovebirds have a conversation together fans could not keep calm. While, the data from CNN shows that for the Donald Trump’s episode on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast just 800k accounts turned up in the first 60 minutes after it premiered.
Taylor Swift’s episode on “New Heights” (1.3M) is now the podcast with the most concurrent viewers in YouTube history, beating Donald Trump on Joe Rogan (0.8M). pic.twitter.com/YhPn5G6Wep
— Taylor Swift Charts+ (@chartstswift) August 14, 2025
Comparing to the views garnered by the Joe Rogan with Donald Trump last October, Taylor Swift gifted the Kelce brothers with more than 12 million views in just less than 21 hours from the time the episode premiered on their YouTube channel. But as the data reveals more, the Donald Trump appearance on Joe Rogan’s show caught up with the mark in 24 hours. In 24 hours the Trump show secured more than 26 million views.
As it appears, the fight for views, reach and likes would continue for the two impeccable fan favourite podcast episodes ever. Taylor Swift sitting in conversation with her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason made sure to tick off quite a few boxes and gave discussion about a handful of subjects to keep fans buzzing.
While Taylor reflected about securing her Masters, her Eras Tour, Travis too talked about the bond the duo shares. Taylor even shared her enthusiasm about the upcoming NFL season. And with so many things happening together, the Grammy-winning singer in indeed making sure to keep the “Swifties” real busy.
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