Apple Reveals Top Podcasts of 2025

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Apple today shared its annual Apple Podcasts Top Charts of 2025, highlighting the most popular shows, episodes, and listening trends of the year.

Apple Podcasts Top Charts of 2025
The 2025 charts are now available in the New tab of the ‌Apple Podcasts‌ app and will remain accessible through the end of the year. Listeners in more than 15 countries will also see a curated Best Shows of 2025 selection chosen by its editorial team.

Apple identified The Joe Rogan Experience as the most popular podcast in the United States for 2025, based on overall listenership. The company also published full top-ten lists for all major categories:

Top Shows

  1. The Joe Rogan Experience
  2. The Daily
  3. The Mel Robbins Podcast
  4. Crime Junkie
  5. Dateline NBC
  6. SmartLess
  7. Call Her Daddy
  8. This American Life
  9. Huberman Lab
  10. The Ezra Klein Show

Top New Shows

  1. Good Hang with Amy Poehler
  2. Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce
  3. Deadly Mirage
  4. Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
  5. Murder in the Moonlight
  6. Devil in the Desert
  7. What Happened to Holly Bobo?
  8. Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska
  9. Unicorn Girl
  10. The Best People with Nicolle Wallace

Top Series

  1. The Telepathy Tapes
  2. The Binge Cases
  3. Deadly Mirage
  4. Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
  5. Dateline Originals
  6. Murder in the Moonlight
  7. Serial
  8. THREE
  9. Devil in the Desert
  10. CounterClock

Top Episodes

  1. The Telepathy Tapes: "Unveiling the Hidden World of Telepathic Communication in a Silenced Community"
  2. Crime Junkie: "MURDERED: The Feeney Family"
  3. New Heights: "The Taylor Swift Episode"
  4. The Joe Rogan Experience: "#2223 - Elon Musk"
  5. The Daily: "Trump, Again"
  6. Blink: "Blink"
  7. Deadly Mirage: "Death in the High Desert"
  8. SmartLess: "Amy Poehler"
  9. Good Hang with Amy Poehler: "Tina Fey"
  10. Murder in the Moonlight: "In Cold Blood"

Most Shared Shows

  1. The Telepathy Tapes
  2. The Mel Robbins Podcast
  3. Sold a Story
  4. Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
  5. The Bible in a Year
  6. The Daily
  7. Huberman Lab
  8. The Bible Recap
  9. Scamanda
  10. The Ezra Klein Show

Most Shared Episodes

  1. The Mel Robbins Podcast: "The Body Reset"
  2. The Telepathy Tapes: "Unveiling the Hidden World..."
  3. The Ezra Klein Show: "Don't Believe Him"
  4. The Shawn Ryan Show: "#163 Gary Brecka"
  5. The Peter Attia Drive: "Women's sexual health..."
  6. The Joe Rogan Experience: "#2294 - Dr. Suzanne Humphries"
  7. The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart: "Trump Won. What Now?"
  8. The Daily: "The Secret Power of Siblings"
  9. On Purpose: "Let Them Theory"
  10. Armchair Expert: "Mary Claire Haver"

Most Followed Shows

  1. The Mel Robbins Podcast
  2. The Joe Rogan Experience
  3. Good Hang with Amy Poehler
  4. The Charlie Kirk Show
  5. Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce
  6. The Telepathy Tapes
  7. The MeidasTouch Podcast
  8. The Shawn Ryan Show
  9. Call Her Daddy
  10. The Daily

Top Subscriber Shows

  1. The Daily
  2. Apple News+ Narrated
  3. The Ezra Klein Show
  4. Unicorn Girl
  5. Morbid
  6. Extrasensory
  7. Dateline NBC
  8. Scamtown
  9. Big Time
  10. The New York Times Narrated

Top Channels

  1. SiriusXM Podcasts
  2. Wondery
  3. iHeartPodcasts
  4. The New York Times
  5. audiochuck
  6. Dateline NBC
  7. Dear Media
  8. Cumulus Podcast Network
  9. Audacy
  10. Vox Media Podcast Network

The Top Charts of 2025 are localized for audiences around the globe, offering a distinct regional perspective on the year's top podcasts.

The ‌Apple Podcasts‌ Show of the Year will be announced on Thursday, December 4. The annual award recognizes a single podcast that made what Apple described as a "significant cultural or creative impact" across the platform over the past year.

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Top Rated Comments

JoshuaBru Avatar
JoshuaBru
12 weeks ago

Grabbing popcorn ? to wait for the comments about Joe Rogan being number 1.

(never listened myself, but from what I hear through the grapevine he’s very contentious and perhaps conspiratorial? Is that accurate?)
He’s only contentious to people who are extremely comfortable living inside their echo chamber
Score: 22 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Slo Pesci Avatar
Slo Pesci
12 weeks ago

Where’s the irony? He hosts a long form podcast show with all kinds of different guests. The only people that vehemently hate him are people who don’t listen to it bc they hear about it being controversial. Just look at the comment above. Undemocratic guests? His last 6 guests have been an evolutionary biologist, 3 comedians and 2 actors lol
The evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein? The guy that said COVID vaccines were dangerous and people should take Ivermectin instead? That guy? Wonder how many people died because of the pseudoscience people like Rogan and him push.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Slo Pesci Avatar
Slo Pesci
12 weeks ago
Rogan is the most popular podcast, just like McDonald's is the most popular restaurant. #1 doesn't mean quality.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
cicalinarrot Avatar
cicalinarrot
12 weeks ago

Grabbing popcorn ? to wait for the comments about Joe Rogan being number 1.

(never listened myself, but from what I hear through the grapevine he’s very contentious and perhaps conspiratorial? Is that accurate?)
Classic "free thinker", the "I do my own research" kind of person who manages to be confidently wrong about almost everything.
Plus, whenever he accidentally appears to be right about anything, he has no problem offering a huge platform to all sort of weirdos and anti-democratic people, normalizing their crazy ideas and hate and giving the impression that there's an active debate about everything. He's there, challenging them in the mildest possible way because he wants them back.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Slo Pesci Avatar
Slo Pesci
12 weeks ago

He’s only contentious to people who are extremely comfortable living inside their echo chamber
The irony of this post ?
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WarmWinterHat Avatar
WarmWinterHat
12 weeks ago

No lol, leave the bluesky bubble and it will open your eyes and your mind to other opinions.
That's a really crappy way of responding.. it wasn't towards me, but chiming in anyway.

I've never used BlueSky, or Threads, or Twitter/X, and I've never listened to Joe Rogan..mostly because I couldn't stand him as a host back when I watched Fear Factor in college, but there are plenty of better ways to "open your mind" other than the Joe Rogan..like actually getting out in your community and talking to real people with differing opinions and outlooks.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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