Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Society & Culture

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 13 Jan 2026

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01/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 453

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:57:30

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. Audible Original (3 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (3 shows)

5. Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	515	Simplecast	38
2	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	545	Simplecast	69
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	461	Acast	68
6	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1165	Megaphone	58
7	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	414	Megaphone	53
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	501	Megaphone	63
9	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1230	Libsyn	63
10	Roz & Mocha	Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	1684	Simplecast	53
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
12	Ideas	CBC	Society & Culture	239	Triton Digital	53
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1198	Omny Studio	59
15	Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	177	Acast	73
16	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	160	Simplecast	73
17	Ouvre ton jeu avec Marie-Claude Barrette	Umano Productions	Society & Culture	189	Spotify for Podcasters	52
18	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	159	Megaphone	53
19	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
21	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
22	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	63
23	OUBLIE PAS TA BROSSE À DENTS - Podcast d’Alexandre Barrette	Alexandre Barrette	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	31
24	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
25	Scamfluencers	Audible Original	Society & Culture	152	ART19	73
26	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
27	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2844	Acast	43
28	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
29	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
30	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	60	ART19	63
31	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
32	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	81	Buzzsprout	38
33	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	281	Omny Studio	83
34	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
35	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	69	Megaphone	42
36	The Sunday Magazine	CBC	Society & Culture	100	Triton Digital	43
37	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
38	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
39	Against The Odds	Audible Original	Society & Culture	296	ART19	83
40	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	652	Megaphone	48
41	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	117	ART19	68
42	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
43	On s'connait pas tant que ça	Studio SF	Society & Culture	201	Acast	58
44	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
45	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	85	Megaphone	42
46	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	171	Simplecast	69
47	Q with Tom Power	CBC	Society & Culture	1464	Triton Digital	53
48	Party Pyjama	Party Pyjama	Society & Culture	83	Acast	79
49	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	47
50	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
51	Family Secrets	Family Secrets	Society & Culture	257	Megaphone	48
52	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	468	ART19	73
53	Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud	CBC	Society & Culture	703	Triton Digital	32
54	Chez moi	Mariloup Wolfe	Society & Culture	35	Acast	63
55	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
56	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
57	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
58	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	211	Libsyn	68
59	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	986	Megaphone	64
60	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
61	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	410	Megaphone	48
62	In Bed With The Right	Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan	Society & Culture	131	RSS.com	62
63	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
64	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	135	WideOrbit	48
65	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	182	ART19	48
66	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
67	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	128	Megaphone	38
68	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	689	Megaphone	42
69	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	364	Megaphone	58
70	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
71	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
73	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
74	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
75	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
76	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
77	No Stupid Questions	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	344	Simplecast	63
78	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	644	Acast	38
79	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	239	ART19	41
80	Le 5 à 7 Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Jessica Roux & Rosemarie Santerre	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	48
81	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
82	La vie sociale	La vie sociale	Society & Culture	205	Podbean	62
83	Shameless	Shameless Media	Society & Culture	1016	Megaphone	68
84	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1753	Libsyn	53
85	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	253	Megaphone	38
86	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	214	Simplecast	32
87	Jillian on Love	Jillian Turecki \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	83
88	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	209	Simplecast	62
89	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
90	A Little Bit Culty	Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames	Society & Culture	344	Libsyn	89
91	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	259	Audioboom	53
92	Within Reason	Alex J O'Connor	Society & Culture	163	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
94	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	567	ART19	48
95	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	198	Megaphone	37
96	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	808	Megaphone	58
97	Sans Filtre Podcast	Studio SF	Society & Culture	343	Acast	58
98	Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings	Oprah and Eckhart Tolle	Society & Culture	278	Simplecast	38
99	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	244	Simplecast	63
100	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63

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