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The Top Podcasts in the USA by Popularity (⌚ Updated Daily)

I know, this is a tricky one. How can we judge the top podcasts in the USA, right now? Is it by production value? By entertainment value? By educational value? Or any number of the other amazing things that podcasts bring us!

Well, I’m going to take the wimp’s way out, and not judge it at all! Instead, here you’ll find a list of the top podcasts in the USA, right now, as judged by YOU and your downloads! Yes, this is a popularity contest: the most popular podcasts in the USA, this minute. True, the chart rankings are caused by many different variables. Some variables are stranger than others. May the most outrageous win.

The Top Podcasts in the USA by Download Numbers

This is a live feed, updated daily, of the most popular podcasts on Apple’s listings, right now. You’ll find the top 100 shows here. That should be enough to keep you busy for quite some time!

Remember, if you need more info on how to listen, check out the following:

How to listen to a podcast

The best headphones for listening to a podcast (or music!)

Last updated on the 13th of Jan 2025 at 09:01 am (GMT)

1. The Joe Rogan Experience

By: Joe Rogan

Genre: Comedy

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The Top Podcasts in the USA by Download Numbers

1. The Joe Rogan Experience

2. The Mel Robbins Podcast

3. The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)

4. The Telepathy Tapes

5. Shawn Ryan Show

6. The Daily

7. The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott

8. Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce

9. Crime Junkie

10. Dateline NBC

11. The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

12. KhloÃ© in Wonder Land

13. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

14. Up First from NPR

15. The Rest Is History

16. Huberman Lab

17. On Purpose with Jay Shetty

18. The Bible Recap

19. Morbid

20. SmartLess

21. Pod Save America

22. The Ramsey Show

23. The Megyn Kelly Show

24. Murder on Songbird Road

25. Stuff You Should Know

26. Deadly Mirage

27. The Tucker Carlson Show

28. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

29. The Binge Cases: Scary Terri

30. The School of Greatness

31. Hidden Brain

32. 20/20

33. New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce

34. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

35. Mick Unplugged

36. All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

37. How to Be a Better Human

38. REAL AF with Andy Frisella

39. 48 Hours

40. This American Life

41. The Ben Shapiro Show

42. World Of Secrets

43. The Ezra Klein Show

44. Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

45. The Charlie Kirk Show

46. Giggly Squad

47. Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery

48. Conan Oâ€™Brien Needs A Friend

49. The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

50. The Dan Bongino Show

51. Call Her Daddy

52. MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

53. Candace

54. Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

55. Adam Carolla Show

56. Freakonomics Radio

57. Someone Knows Something

58. All There Is with Anderson Cooper

59. Pardon My Take

60. The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast

61. The Binge Crimes: Deadly Fortune

62. Fresh Air

63. The Toast

64. anything goes with emma chamberlain

65. The Jamie Kern Lima Show

66. We Can Do Hard Things

67. Radio Rental

68. Dateline Originals

69. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

70. The Deck

71. Acquired

72. The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

73. Serialously with Annie Elise

74. American Scandal

75. Bad Friends

76. Serial

77. What Now? with Trevor Noah

78. Last Podcast On The Left

79. Something Was Wrong