Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Arts

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. 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 01 Sep 2026

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09/01/2026

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Episodes: 324

Frequency: every 11 days

Duration: 00:47:03

Top 5 authors

1. OTR GOLD (4 shows)

2. NPR (2 shows)

3. The New Yorker (2 shows)

4. Book Riot (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (13 shows)

3. Acast (11 shows)

4. Buzzsprout (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Fresh Air	NPR	Arts	300	Simplecast	59
2	The Magnus Archives	Rusty Quill	Arts	405	Acast	74
3	The Moth	The Moth	Arts	195	WideOrbit	49
4	The MOOD Podcast	Matt Jacob	Arts	162	Buzzsprout	53
5	The iDesign Lab Podcast \| Where Design, Business, and Culture Shape How We Live and Build	Tiffany Woolley, Scott Woolley	Arts	87	Buzzsprout	52
6	99% Invisible	Roman Mars	Arts	829	Simplecast	58
7	Stories of Art	HENI Talks	Arts	34	Unknown	73
8	Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast	King Arthur Baking Company	Arts	30	Buzzsprout	57
9	Walk-In Talk Podcast	Carl Fiadini	Arts	216	Libsyn	48
10	Spooked	KQED and Snap Studios	Arts	256	Simplecast	63
11	Be My Guest with Ina Garten	Food Network	Arts	36	Acast	58
12	The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast	Forrest Kelly	Arts	394	Simplecast	62
13	Return on Design	Rachel Niederhofer	Arts	51	Unknown	63
14	The Chef's Cut	Level Media	Arts	69	Megaphone	58
15	The Book Review	The New York Times	Arts	3	Simplecast	48
16	The Book Club	Goalhanger	Arts	35	Megaphone	73
17	The Sporkful	Dan Pashman	Arts	329	Simplecast	68
18	Daily Rosary Meditations \| Catholic Prayers	Dr. Mike Scherschligt	Arts	2000	CoHost	32
19	Snap Judgment	Snap Judgment and PRX	Arts	551	PRX	53
20	Articles of Interest	Avery Trufelman	Arts	70	PRX	73
21	Eating History	Level Media Inc.	Arts	21	Megaphone	69
22	Myths and Legends	Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod	Arts	541	Audioboom	63
23	Selected Shorts	Symphony Space	Arts	37	Simplecast	43
24	Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio	Milk Street Radio	Arts	571	PRX	43
25	Naaji /ناجـی	Pari	Arts	106	Acast	59
26	Marlon and Jake Read Dead People	Penguin Random House	Arts	45	Simplecast	68
27	Fell Into Food Podcast	Jeff Fell	Arts	94	RedCircle	32
28	The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio\| Daily Mystery Dramas	Adam Graham\|Old Time Radio Detective Host	Arts	1000	Spreaker	73
29	Fantasy Fangirls	Fantasy Fangirls	Arts	215	Acast	63
30	Rich and Remote with Alex and Karla Booth	Alex and Karla Booth	Arts	41	Castos	53
31	The New Yorker: Fiction	The New Yorker	Arts	235	Megaphone	38
32	Off The Shelf with Morgann Book	Bookish Media	Arts	61	Acast	63
33	The Let's Talk Agriculture Podcast	Sharon Nkwah	Arts	179	Podcastics	32
34	I Want Her Shoes Podcast	Anna Anisin	Arts	85	Simplecast	58
35	The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters	American Public Media	Arts	791	American Public Media	32
36	The Jimmy Dore Show	Jimmy Dore	Arts	100	Libsyn	48
37	Choice Classic Radio Detectives \| Old Time Radio	Choice Classic Radio	Arts	999	Podbean	42
38	The Currently Reading Podcast	Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb	Arts	456	Libsyn	62
39	The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker	The New Yorker	Arts	1	Megaphone	42
40	Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin	Rick Rubin	Arts	204	Megaphone	68
41	ON THE COUCH	John Chamberlain Estate	Arts	8	Acast	79
42	It Was A Book First	It Was A Book First	Arts	17	Captivate	68
43	The Chris Hedges Report	Chris Hedges	Arts	100	Podbean	58
44	Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)	Mean Streets Podcasts	Arts	842	Libsyn	52
45	Every Outfit	Every Outfit	Arts	298	Audioboom	42
46	Skin Anarchy	Ekta et al.	Arts	807	Buzzsprout	69
47	Prose Society with Eli Rallo	iHeartPodcasts	Arts	8	Omny Studio	42
48	NPR's Book of the Day	NPR	Arts	1328	Simplecast	63
49	岩中花述 Details temporarily unavailable	GIADA	Arts	87	Unknown	53
50	Gastropod	Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley	Arts	296	Megaphone	54
51	What Should I Read Next?	Anne Bogel	Arts	543	Megaphone	58
52	MrCreepyPasta's Storytime	MrCreepyPasta	Arts	1000	Spreaker	59
53	Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast	Grant Davis	Arts	72	Spotify for Podcasters	37
54	The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan	Billy Corgan	Arts	87	ART19	47
55	Daring Forever (Find your Extraordinary)	Radim Malinic	Arts	265	Buzzsprout	78
56	Design Matters with Debbie Millman	Design Matters Media	Arts	693	Acast	28
57	Handbag Designer 101: The Stories Behind Handbag Designers, Brands, and Industry Icons	Emily Blumenthal	Arts	161	RedCircle	58
58	Pretty, Not Smart with Louie and Yoatzi Castro	Dear Media	Arts	158	Megaphone	42
59	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod	Arts	179	RedCircle	42
60	The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering Creativity	Melinda Rothouse, PhD	Arts	128	Buzzsprout	62
61	The Lonely Palette	Tamar Avishai	Arts	108	Simplecast	63
62	Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	712	Megaphone	43
63	The Stories Writers Tell Themselves	Katherine	Arts	14	Buzzsprout	47
64	Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud	Bella Freud	Arts	95	Megaphone	63
65	CBS Radio Mystery Theater \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	1348	Megaphone	43
66	Espiral con Karen Codner	Karen Codner	Arts	163	Megaphone	43
67	Dish	Cold Glass Productions	Arts	182	Megaphone	69
68	Scholé Every Day: A Book Club for Regular People	Brandy Vencel, Mystie Winckler, and Abby Wahl	Arts	1	Libsyn	42
69	Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware	Jessie Ware	Arts	390	Acast	63
70	Gunsmoke \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	477	Megaphone	43
71	RISK!	RISK!	Arts	1238	Megaphone	69
72	Zero to Well-Read	Book Riot	Arts	60	Megaphone	48
73	ill-advised by Bill Nighy	EYEPOD Studios	Arts	27	Acast	73
74	The Worst Bestsellers	Worst Bestsellers	Arts	308	Blubrry Podcasting	32
75	Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast	Chelsea Devantez	Arts	269	Megaphone	42
76	LeVar Burton Reads	LeVar Burton and Stitcher	Arts	191	Simplecast	48
77	Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day	Merriam-Webster	Arts	10	ART19	48
78	Dragnet \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	310	Megaphone	49
79	Book Riot - The Podcast	Book Riot	Arts	935	Megaphone	48
80	PASSAGES: On Morrison	Namwali Serpell, Random House	Arts	9	Libsyn	59
81	Poetry Unbound	On Being Studios	Arts	228	Simplecast	83
82	Scary Stories and Rain	Being Scared	Arts	495	Spotify for Podcasters	33
83	The Emerald	Joshua Schrei	Arts	100	Buzzsprout	73
84	Books, Beach, & Beyond	Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine	Arts	51	Buzzsprout	73
85	Storytime for Grownups	Faith Moore	Arts	257	Buzzsprout	52
86	Naked Beauty Details temporarily unavailable	Brooke DeVard	Arts	417	Acast	59
87	The Shit No One Tells You About Writing	Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra	Arts	452	RedCircle	53
88	پلی لیست \| PlayList	MokhtarRazmjoo	Arts	384	Castbox	48
89	Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone	Sasha Stone	Arts	294	Substack	48
90	Talk Art	Russell Tovey and Robert Diament	Arts	393	Acast	79
91	Overdue	Headgum	Arts	839	ART19	48
92	Otherppl with Brad Listi: Books & Culture	Brad Listi	Arts	1351	Megaphone	38
93	The Run-Through with Vogue	Vogue	Arts	342	Megaphone	48
94	Literature and History	Doug Metzger	Arts	129	Libsyn	73
95	The Literary Life Podcast	Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks	Arts	346	Libsyn	62
96	The Poetry Cafe	thepoetrycafe	Arts	81	ART19	48
97	Florida Living LIfe	Jamie and Julie	Arts	18	Podetize	79
98	Dragons in the Details: A Romantasy Deep Dive Podcast	Abby and Ronnie \| Huge Book Nerds	Arts	88	Spotify for Podcasters	37
99	Off the Cuff with Carson Kressley	Carson Kressley	Arts	6	Libsyn	42
100	Dear Alice \| Interior Design	Alice Lane	Arts	392	Megaphone	42

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