The Top 50 Podcasts in the US for Q1 2025
Edison Research announces the Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. based on reach for Q1 2025 among weekly podcast listeners ages 13+.
The list ranks podcasts based on total audience reach from Edison Podcast Metrics. Interviews were conducted continuously throughout the quarter in English and Spanish. Rankings are based on listening over the full period. All respondents reported listening to podcasts in the last week.
The top six podcasts remain in the same rank order as Q4 2024: The Joe Rogan Experience, Crime Junkie, The Daily, Call Her Daddy, This Past Weekend w/Theo Von, and Dateline NBC.
Regular Top Ten members This American Life and New Heights return.
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In The Top 10 for the first time: Former YouTuber turned podcast host Stephanie Soo joined the SiriusXM Podcast Network recently with her show Rotten Mango. The true crime podcast picked up some PR when it was prominently featured in the YouTube press release about YouTube’s one billion monthly users. The show makes its debut in the Top 10 U.S. podcasts at #8 this quarter.
In the Top 50 for the first time: The Mel Robbins Podcast, hosted by New York Times best-selling self-help author Mel Robbins, debuts in the Top 50 in Q1 2025 at an incredible #15. Robbins has attracted millions of followers on social media as her “Let Them” theory about eschewing others’ judgement and opinions has gone viral.
Also making its appearance for the first time in the Top 50 is Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast at #50. Hosts Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis’s comedy podcast began with video podcasts on Spotify. Gillis continues to garner attention, most recently hosting Saturday Night Live for a second time and as part of a high-profile pop-up show with Zach Bryan before the Super Bowl.
The podcast show ranker is derived from data collected continuously during the first quarter of 2024, interviewing 5,068 weekly podcast consumers ages 13 and older in the U.S. Participants indicate which podcasts they listened to in the past week along with a variety of demographic, psychographic, and purchase-behavior information. This ranker measures reach as a percentage of the weekly podcast listening audience.
About Edison Research
Edison Research conducts survey research and provides strategic information to a broad array of clients worldwide, having conducted research in 66 countries. Edison Research’s The Infinite Dial® series has been the survey of record for digital audio, social media, podcasting, smart speakers, and other media-related technologies since 1998. The company’s Share of Ear® survey is the only single-source measure of all audio in the U.S. Edison Research is the leading podcast research company in the world, producing the only survey-based data on podcast listening in the U.S, Edison Podcast Metrics, and has conducted research for many companies in the space. Since 2004, Edison Research has been the sole provider of election data, race projections and analysis to the National Election Pool (ABC News, CBS News, CNN, NBC News) for every presidential primary and general election since 2003.
The above list of podcasts is available as an OPML file for your podcast player
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