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100 Top Podcasts Charts | Spotify, Apple & YouTube

Listen to the top 100 podcasts fresh right now! Our ultimate list covers all the top podcasts for genres including crime, news, sports, and more.

Kendall Breitman

Social Media & Community Expert

Last Updated:

December 12, 2024

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Ortal Hadad

Kendall Breitman

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Table of contents:

100 Top podcasts to listen to right now

Let's dive deeper: A look at the top-rated podcasts at the end of 2024

How we calculate our list of top-rated podcasts

Looking for the top podcasts at the end of 2024?

We analyzed Spotify, YouTube and Apple’s most listened to podcasts to compile the list of the 100 top podcasts right now.

Find them below.

100 Top podcasts to listen to right now

Rank	Podcast Name	Host(s)	Genre	Ranking Change
1	Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce	Wave Sports + Entertainment	Sports & Entertainment	↔
2	The Joe Rogan Experience	Joe Rogan	Comedy	↔
3	Extra Dirty with Hallie Batchelder	Unwell	Comedy	↔
4	Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	↔
5	Crime Junkie	audiochuck	True Crime	↔
6	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	↔
7	Huberman Lab	Scicomm Media	Health & Science	↔
8	ChainsFR On Spotify	ChainsFR	Music	↔
9	Call Her Daddy	Alex Cooper	Comedy	↑
10	The Tucker Carlson Show	Tucker Carlson Network	News	↓
11	The Mel Robbins Podcast	Mel Robbins	Self-Help	↔
12	This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von	Theo Von	Comedy	↔
13	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo & Ramble	True Crime	↔
14	The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett	Flight Studio	Business	↑
15	So True with Caleb Hearon	Headgum	Comedy	↑
16	The LOL Podcast	Cash, Maverick, Kate, Harper, Kenzie	Comedy	↓
17	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Paranormal	↑
18	The Megyn Kelly Show	SiriusXM	News	↔
19	The Daily	The New York Times	News	↔
20	Distractible	Distractible	Comedy	↑
21	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	↑
22	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Self-Improvement	↓
23	Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder	Kallmekris	True Crime	↑
24	Candace	Candace Owens	Politics	↔
25	REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana	Wondery	True Crime	↓
26	Bad Friends	Bobby Lee & Andrew Santino	Comedy	↔
27	Up First from NPR	NPR	News	↑
28	Smosh Reads Reddit Stories	Smosh	Comedy	↑
29	Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard	Armchair Umbrella	Comedy	↑
30	Lex Fridman Podcast	Lex Fridman	Technology	↑
31	Not Loveline	Tana Mongeau and Trish Paytas	Society & Culture	↓
32	The Bryce Crawford Podcast	Bryce Crawford	Comedy	↓
33	Morbid	Morbid Network	True Crime	↑
34	Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast	Matt McCusker & Shane Gillis	Comedy	↑
35	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Paranormal	↑
36	Dan Bongino Show	Dan Bongino	News	↓
37	New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce	Wondery	Sports	↑
38	The Basement Yard	Joe Santagato	Comedy	↑
39	The Rest Is History	Goalhanger	History	↑
40	PBD Podcast	PBD Podcast	Business	↓
41	The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart	Comedy Central	Comedy	↑
42	Markiplier	Distractible	Comedy	↓
43	Financial Audit	Caleb Hammer	Finance	↓
44	Acquired	Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal	Business	↑
45	Duncanyounot	DuncanJoseph	Comedy	↓
46	The Commercial Break	Commercial Break LLC	Comedy	↓
47	All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg	All-In Podcast, LLC	Business	↑
48	Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update	iHeartPodcasts	Comedy	↑
49	The Ben Shapiro Show	The Daily Wire	News	↓
50	NPR News Now	NPR	News	↑
51	KILL TONY	DEATHSQUAD.TV & Studio71	Comedy	↓
52	2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer	YMH Studios	Comedy	↑
53	Morning Brew Daily	Morning Brew	News	↑
54	Pod Save America	Crooked Media	News	↓
55	The Journal.	The Wall Street Journal	Business	↑
56	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media	True Crime	↓
57	Ryth	Ryth	Music	↓
58	The Good Whale	Serial Productions and The New York Times	Society & Culture	↓
59	SmartLess	Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett	Comedy	↑
60	Call It What It Is	iHeartPodcasts	Comedy	↑
61	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	↑
62	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Education	↓
63	Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin	Money News Network	Finance	↓
64	Giggly Squad	Hannah Berner & Paige DeSorbo	Comedy	↑
65	Las Alucines	Lupita Villalobos y Kass Quezada (Quesito)	Society & Culture	↑
66	The Broski Report with Brittany Broski	Brittany Broski & Audioboom Studios	Comedy	↓
67	The Headlines	The New York Times	News	↑
68	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Spotify Studios	Comedy	↑
69	Serial Killers	Spotify Studios	True Crime	↑
70	Global News Podcast	BBC World Service	News	↑
71	Dhar Mann	Dhar Mann	Society & Culture	↓
72	anything goes with emma chamberlain	Emma Chamberlain	Society & Culture	↓
73	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	↑
74	Hyperfixed	Hyperfixed & Radiotopia	Education	↑
75	Rotten Mango Video	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	↑
76	The Antihero Podcast	The Antihero Podcast	True Crime	↓
77	Two Hot Takes	Morgan Absher	Society & Culture	↓
78	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	↓
79	Batman Unburied: Fallen City	Warner Bros. / Spotify Studios	Fiction	↓
80	The Mindset Mentor	Rob Dial	Self-Improvement	↓
81	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	↓
82	MSA previously My Story Animated	MSA Team	Fiction	↓
83	The Ramsey Show	Ramsey Network	Finance	↓
84	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	↓
85	Girls Gone Bible	Girls Gone Bible	Society & Culture	↓
86	The Charlie Kirk Show	Charlie Kirk	Politics	↓
87	Digital Social Hour	Sean Kelly	Business	↑
88	Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha	Hala Taha	Business	↑
89	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	↓
90	Pardon My Take	Barstool Sports	Sports	↑
91	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files	True Crime	↑
92	Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang	Big Money Players Network and iHeartPodcasts	Comedy	↔
93	The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast	Dr. Jordan B. Peterson	Education	↔
94	Therapuss with Jake Shane	Jake Shane	Society & Culture	↑
95	Hollywood & Crime	Wondery	True Crime	↓
96	The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway	Vox Media Podcast Network	Business	↓
97	SSSniperWolf Videos	SSSniperWolf	Video Content	↓
98	The President's Daily Brief	The First TV	News	↑
99	StarTalk Radio	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	↔
100	The Comment Section with Drew Afualo	Past Your Bedtime	Comedy	↓

Let's dive deeper: A look at the top-rated podcasts at the end of 2024

With new shows coming out daily, the podcast charts change constantly. And even the most high-rated -and generally number 1 ranking podcast- The Joe Rogan Show can get dethroned.

Right now Kylie Kelce’s new podcast show is topping the charts. She released the first episode of Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce, early in December 2024 and it seems to be the hype. (It could be the Swifties…)

Joe Rogan’s podcast remains in 2nd place with a few other well-known shows staying in the top 10. For example, Crime Junkie, the true crime classic, and Huberman Lab, the neuroscience hit, are regular top 10 podcasts.

While everyone has different tastes, we’re seeing that true crime, comedy, politics and educational business or self-development shows are what people like to listen to.

Let’s take a look at some of the top podcasts on each platform and in some categories:

Top Spotify podcast: Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce
Top Apple Charts podcast: Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce
Top YouTube podcast (by subscribers): The Joe Rogan Show

How we calculate our list of top-rated podcasts

To get our final top podcast list we:

Reviewed the top podcast charts across Spotify, Apple and YouTube for the US.
We calculated the average ranking for each show across the platforms.
We included this average to create our final list.

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Kendall Breitman

leads Riverside's community. She has over ten years of experience in television and video production for places like NBC and Bloomberg News. You’ll find Kendall on our webinar, where she shares her expert insights on content production, branding, and more.

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