Podcast Corner: Joe Rogan reigns supreme in 2025 with chart-topping show
The Joe Rogan Experience topped the podcast charts in 2025; Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy has fallen from second to fourth.
As we enter the home strait in 2025, the best-of culture lists have been dropping — we’ll have our annual list of the best new Irish and international podcasts over the next two weeks. Apple, Spotify, and YouTube have all released their top-10 charts in the past week, so let’s take a look at the trends.
For the first time, tops all three. In 2025, it feels like the monoculture is a thing of the past — our personal cultural best-ofs likely look vastly different from each other — yet reigns supreme. Almost every week, a clip of the show goes viral. Depending on your algorithm, it’s either a display of fake news or straight-talking, a celebrity oversharing, or a meandering rant; maybe even all three at once. That split reaction is the point: Rogan is a lightning rod people encounter whether they want to or not.
