Spotify Wrapped 2025: India’s Most-Streamed Creator-Led Podcasts

Spotify Wrapped 2025 makes one trend clear: creator-led podcasts now dominate India’s most-streamed charts. From business and crime to interviews, horror and regional fiction, independent creators have steadily built shows that now outperform traditional formats. Most of these podcasts began years ago as small uploads with consistent effort, growing into large, multi-platform properties with loyal followings.

1) Figuring Out — Raj Shamani

Raj Shamani is a digital entrepreneur and creator whose channel has grown over several years into a large learning-focused ecosystem. His YouTube presence now sits at about 13.4 million subscribers, built steadily through talks, interviews and creator-led learning content.

Figuring Out started after Raj experimented with an early podcast called Voices. Over time, his interview-driven idea evolved into a long-form show featuring founders, creators and public thinkers. The podcast spans multiple seasons across YouTube, Spotify and Audible, reflecting years of iterative work and audience building.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #1 Most-streamed creator-led podcast in India.

2) The Horror Show — Khooni Monday

Khooni Monday is led by Divay Agarwal and his team, known for serialised horror storytelling. Their channel, active for many years, has grown to over 6+ million subscribers through consistent horror narratives and weekly episodes.

The Horror Show developed directly from their YouTube releases. Early episodes followed a simple narration style, eventually maturing into a structured horror audio series across platforms. Their longevity comes from maintaining a steady, high-volume catalogue that has built a dedicated listener base.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #2 Most-streamed podcast.

3) The Desi Crime Podcast — Aryaan Misra & Aishwarya Singh

Aryaan Misra and Aishwarya Singh run Desi Studios and have been creating true-crime content since early 2021. Their YouTube channel grew into a 208K subscriber range, supported by loyal South-Asian listeners.

Their podcast began as a digital storytelling project on South Asian crime cases, later expanding to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other platforms. Over the years, they shifted from niche narrations to deeper, multi-episode case analyses, strengthening their long-term listener engagement.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #3 Most-streamed podcast.

4) The Ranveer Show (Hindi & English) — Ranveer Allahbadia

Ranveer Allahbadia, better known as BeerBiceps, has built one of India’s largest creator platforms. His YouTube channel, where his podcast episodes live, has around 10.8 million subscribers and has been active for years across fitness, culture and interviews.

The Ranveer Show started with English long-form interviews and later expanded into a separate Hindi feed. Both shows feature entrepreneurs, public figures and creators, forming a cross-platform franchise with consistent uploads for multiple years.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #4 in Hindi and #6 overall.

5) The Stories of Mahabharata — Sudipta Bhawmik

Sudipta Bhawmik is a writer and storyteller who has spent more than a decade retelling epic narratives. His work spans theatre, writing and digital audio, with a niche but steady listener base.

His podcast began as a serialised retelling of the Mahabharata, published episode by episode on platforms like Acast and Spotify. Over many years, the show expanded into a long-running audio project that now includes multiple chapters and narrative arcs, attracting listeners seeking structured epic storytelling.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #5 Most-streamed podcast.

6) Horror Time – Scary Stories in Hindi — Sarthak Mishra

Sarthak Mishra is a solo creator who has been narrating horror stories for several years across Spotify, Audible and YouTube. His catalogue expands steadily, forming a recognisable brand within Hindi horror audio.

The podcast began as a simple narration series and has continued with frequent episode drops. Its growth reflects consistent effort and the appeal of single-voice storytelling that builds familiarity and retention among listeners.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #7 Most-streamed podcast.

7) SR PAY — True Crime Documentaries

SR PAY is a creator-driven true-crime production channel with around 2.16 million subscribers on YouTube. Their long-form documentary style has been refined over years of uploads.

The podcast version brings their detailed narration style to audio platforms. Early episodes were short-format stories, before evolving into structured, documentary-style cases that perform strongly across YouTube and Spotify.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #8 Most-streamed podcast.

8) Pretkotha — Bengali Horror Podcast (Gourab Tapadar)

Gourab Tapadar and the Pretkotha team have built a strong Bengali-language community through horror storytelling. The channel has celebrated milestones such as 600k subscribers over several years of content.

The podcast began with Bengali horror narrations on YouTube before expanding to Spotify. Its sustained rise shows how regional-language content can grow steadily and powerfully when built over the years.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #9 Most-streamed podcast.

9) Moment of Silence — Sakshi Shivdasani & Naina Bhan

Sakshi Shivdasani and Naina Bhan launched the podcast in 2023 as a conversational show on relationships, culture and everyday social commentary. Both hosts come from creator and performing backgrounds.

The show began with candid, unscripted discussions and moved into regular episodes with steady output. As the listener base expanded, the tone remained casual and personality-driven, helping the podcast sustain its presence across platforms.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Rank: #10 Most-streamed podcast.