Joe Rogan Takes No. 1 Spot on Apple Podcasts for 2025

Joe Rogan is no longer just a leader in one platform — he is a dominant force in multiple platforms. He has been leading the way in Spotify’s charts for many years, and he has now taken over the #1 position in the US on Apple Podcasts for 2025, according to Apple’s year-end charts, detailing the most popular shows and trends of the year in the U.S. and globally. The full rankings are available from Apple Podcasts’ Top Charts of 2025, showing that Rogan surpassed a large group of news, true crime and self-help shows to take the #1 spot.

For 2024, Rogan was ranked #3 on Apple’s list after The Daily and Crime Junkie. For 2025, he moved The Daily to the #2 spot, and still had one of his largest shows “#2223 – Elon Musk,” rank in the top 10 most listened to shows of the year. The Daily also continued to have a significant presence due to another of their large shows, “Trump, Again,” being one of the top shows of the year, demonstrating that politics will continue to be a driving force for audio consumption for news programs regardless of the growing popularity of personality-based podcasts.

Comedy, True Crime and Self-Help Dominate

The Top Shows list for 2025 on Apple Podcasts represents what people consistently placed in their daily routines. At the top of the list was The Joe Rogan Experience, followed by The Daily and The Mel Robbins Podcast, which rose to the #3 position and knocked Crime Junkie to the #4 position. Rounding out the top 10 were Dateline NBC, SmartLess, Call Her Daddy, This American Life, Huberman Lab and The Ezra Klein Show. According to tech and Apple-focused media outlets, including MacRumors, this represents a blend of news, comedy, self-improvement and true crime that defines mainstream podcast listening.

Additionally, some of the new shows of 2025 made an impact. The top new show was Good Hang with Amy Poehler; Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce ranked second, Deadly Mirage ranked third, followed by Blink | Jake Haendel’s Story, Murder in the Moonlight, Devil in the Desert, What Happened to Holly Bobo?, Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska, Unicorn Girl and The Best People with Nicolle Wallace. Poehler’s appearances on SmartLess and her own “Tina Fey” episode on Good Hang were two of the episodes that ranked high on the Top Episodes list.

On the series side, The Telepathy Tapes exploded onto the scene to lead the field. The show, which explores claims of telepathy by non-speaking autistic individuals, was named the #1 series on Apple Podcasts and the most played episode of the year: “Unveiling the Hidden World of Telepathic Communication in a Silenced Community.” Following The Telepathy Tapes on the Top Series list were The Binge Cases, Deadly Mirage, Blink | Jake Haendel’s Story, Dateline Originals, Murder in the Moonlight, Serial, THREE, Devil in the Desert and CounterClock.