# The best podcasts of 2025

Investigations, music history and celebrity chat: the best podcasts of 2025 according to critics and Apple (The Week, Apple Podcasts, the Ambies).

- 12 votes · 10 items
- Sep 13, 2026 · oliver_showrunner
- https://even.best/en/l/1941/the-best-podcasts-of-2025

## Top 10

1. **The Wonder of Stevie** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Wesley Morris on Stevie Wonder's 1972–1976 albums; best entertainment podcast at the 2025 Ambies.
2. **Good Hang with Amy Poehler** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Amy Poehler's new chat show, one of Apple's top new shows of the year.
3. **Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Kylie Kelce's candid new show.
4. **The Slow Newscast** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Weekly investigative storytelling that takes the news slowly.
5. **Heavyweight** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jonathan Goldstein helps people revisit a moment from their past.
6. **Camp Swamp Road** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A narrative series picked among the best of the year by The Week.
7. **Deadly Mirage** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — True crime among Apple's top new shows of 2025.
8. **Murder in the Moonlight** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A true-crime investigation that hooked listeners in 2025.
9. **Devil in the Desert** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Another true-crime hit among the year's top new shows.
10. **Blink** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jake Haendel's story, one of Apple's top new shows of 2025.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.