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 18 Jul 2026

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07/18/2026

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Episodes: 353

Frequency: every 10 days

Duration: 00:47:58

Top 5 authors

1. OTR GOLD (4 shows)

2. NPR (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. Dear Media (2 shows)

5. The New Yorker (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (13 shows)

3. Buzzsprout (10 shows)

4. Acast (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Fresh Air	NPR	Arts	300	Simplecast	59
2	The Moth	The Moth	Arts	195	WideOrbit	49
3	99% Invisible	Roman Mars	Arts	826	Simplecast	58
4	Spooked	KQED and Snap Studios	Arts	254	Simplecast	63
5	Stories of Art	HENI Talks	Arts	32	Unknown	73
6	The iDesign Lab Podcast \| Where Design, Business, and Culture Shape How We Live and Build	Tiffany Woolley, Scott Woolley	Arts	84	Buzzsprout	52
7	The MOOD Podcast	Matt Jacob	Arts	160	Buzzsprout	53
8	Walk-In Talk Podcast	Carl Fiadini	Arts	216	Libsyn	48
9	Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast	King Arthur Baking Company	Arts	29	Buzzsprout	57
10	The Magnus Archives	Rusty Quill	Arts	405	Acast	74
11	The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast	Forrest Kelly	Arts	386	Simplecast	62
12	Snap Judgment	Snap Judgment and PRX	Arts	549	PRX	53
13	The Book Club	Goalhanger	Arts	33	Megaphone	73
14	Daily Rosary Meditations \| Catholic Prayers	Dr. Mike Scherschligt	Arts	2000	CoHost	32
15	The Book Review	The New York Times	Arts	2	Simplecast	48
16	Myths and Legends	Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod	Arts	540	Audioboom	63
17	Off The Shelf with Morgann Book	Bookish Media	Arts	59	Acast	63
18	The Jimmy Dore Show	Jimmy Dore	Arts	100	Libsyn	48
19	Return on Design	Rachel Niederhofer	Arts	50	Unknown	63
20	ill-advised by Bill Nighy	EYEPOD Studios	Arts	26	Acast	73
21	The Chef's Cut	Level Media	Arts	67	Megaphone	58
22	Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio	Milk Street Radio	Arts	568	PRX	43
23	Fantasy Fangirls	Fantasy Fangirls	Arts	211	Acast	63
24	Selected Shorts	Symphony Space	Arts	37	Simplecast	43
25	The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio\| Daily Mystery Dramas	Adam Graham\|Old Time Radio Detective Host	Arts	1000	Spreaker	73
26	Work in Progress with Sophia Bush	iHeartPodcasts	Arts	358	Omny Studio	48
27	Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin	Rick Rubin	Arts	202	Megaphone	68
28	I Want Her Shoes Podcast	Anna Anisin	Arts	84	Simplecast	58
29	Pretty, Not Smart with Louie and Yoatzi Castro	Dear Media	Arts	156	Megaphone	42
30	Books, Beach, & Beyond	Elin Hilderbrand, Tim Talks Books, N Magazine	Arts	50	Buzzsprout	73
31	The Upstaging Gentlemen (Chasing Theatrical Dreams)	Michael Tennant and Nathan Prince	Arts	73	Simplecast	53
32	The Sporkful	Dan Pashman	Arts	325	Simplecast	68
33	Florida Living LIfe	Jamie and Julie	Arts	18	Podetize	79
34	岩中花述 Details temporarily unavailable	GIADA	Arts	86	Unknown	53
35	The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan	Billy Corgan	Arts	86	ART19	47
36	Articles of Interest	Avery Trufelman	Arts	69	PRX	73
37	The New Yorker: Fiction	The New Yorker	Arts	235	Megaphone	38
38	Choice Classic Radio Detectives \| Old Time Radio	Choice Classic Radio	Arts	999	Podbean	42
39	ON THE COUCH	John Chamberlain Estate	Arts	8	Acast	79
40	Eating History	Level Media Inc.	Arts	20	Megaphone	69
41	Daring Forever (Find your Extraordinary)	Radim Malinic	Arts	261	Buzzsprout	78
42	What Should I Read Next?	Anne Bogel	Arts	542	Megaphone	58
43	RISK!	RISK!	Arts	1235	Megaphone	69
44	The Poetry Cafe	thepoetrycafe	Arts	79	ART19	48
45	NPR's Book of the Day	NPR	Arts	1320	Simplecast	63
46	Gastropod	Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley	Arts	295	Megaphone	54
47	Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud	Bella Freud	Arts	94	Megaphone	63
48	Zero to Well-Read	Book Riot	Arts	59	Megaphone	48
49	Be My Guest with Ina Garten	Food Network	Arts	36	Acast	58
50	Friends & Fiction	Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, Ron Block, Bleav	Arts	480	Simplecast	53
51	Hello Crawlers - A Dungeon Crawler Carl Podcast	Grant Davis	Arts	70	Spotify for Podcasters	37
52	The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters	American Public Media	Arts	791	American Public Media	32
53	LeVar Burton Reads	LeVar Burton and Stitcher	Arts	191	Simplecast	48
54	Bad On Paper	Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter	Arts	442	Libsyn	68
55	Storytime for Grownups	Faith Moore	Arts	253	Buzzsprout	52
56	MrCreepyPasta's Storytime	MrCreepyPasta	Arts	1000	Spreaker	59
57	The Maria Liberati Show	Maria Liberati	Arts	347	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	Dish	Cold Glass Productions	Arts	181	Megaphone	69
59	Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)	Mean Streets Podcasts	Arts	840	Libsyn	52
60	Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	712	Megaphone	43
61	Wilder	iHeartPodcasts	History	16	Omny Studio	69
62	Literature and History	Doug Metzger	Arts	129	Libsyn	73
63	Espiral con Karen Codner	Karen Codner	Arts	162	Megaphone	43
64	CBS Radio Mystery Theater \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	1348	Megaphone	43
65	Design Matters with Debbie Millman	Design Matters Media	Arts	691	Acast	28
66	The Von Haessler Doctrine	Cox Media Group	Arts	1855	StreamGuys	38
67	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod	Arts	178	RedCircle	42
68	The Run-Through with Vogue	Vogue	Arts	337	Megaphone	48
69	Gunsmoke \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	477	Megaphone	43
70	All on the Table with Katie Lee Biegel	Dear Media	Arts	109	ART19	58
71	Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa	Service95	Arts	49	Megaphone	58
72	Scary Stories and Rain	Being Scared	Arts	486	Spotify for Podcasters	33
73	The Shit No One Tells You About Writing	Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra	Arts	448	RedCircle	53
74	Dragons in the Details: A Romantasy Deep Dive Podcast	Abby and Ronnie \| Huge Book Nerds	Arts	86	Spotify for Podcasters	37
75	OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation	Getty	Arts	26	Blubrry	68
76	Twenty Thousand Hertz	Dallas Taylor	Arts	248	PRX	79
77	The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker	The New Yorker	Arts	1	Megaphone	42
78	Positive Distraction with Alexander McCall Smith	Alexander McCall Smith	Arts	9	Spotify for Podcasters	32
79	Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware	Jessie Ware	Arts	390	Acast	63
80	Dragnet \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	310	Megaphone	49
81	Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo \| How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice	Savannah Gilbo	Arts	280	Buzzsprout	68
82	The Odyssey	Homer	Arts	24	Spreaker	59
83	Poetry Unbound	On Being Studios	Arts	227	Simplecast	83
84	Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast	Chelsea Devantez	Arts	268	Megaphone	42
85	Cooking Your Way Through Life Details temporarily unavailable	Chef Hollywood	Arts	136	Buzzsprout	62
86	The Literary Life Podcast	Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks	Arts	345	Libsyn	62
87	History of Westeros - A Song of Ice and Fire \| Game of Thrones \| HOTD \| AKOTSK	History of Westeros	Arts	420	Spotify for Podcasters	22
88	Skin Anarchy	Ekta et al.	Arts	805	Buzzsprout	74
89	The Currently Reading Podcast	Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb	Arts	454	Libsyn	62
90	It's Open with Ilana Glazer	It's Open Podcast	Arts	38	Buzzsprout	48
91	Overdue	Headgum	Arts	836	ART19	48
92	Shelf Respect	Shelf Respect	Arts	17	Audioboom	48
93	Handbag Designer 101: The Stories Behind Handbag Designers, Brands, and Industry Icons	Emily Blumenthal	Arts	160	RedCircle	58
94	Dear Alice \| Interior Design	Alice Lane	Arts	390	Megaphone	42
95	پلی لیست \| PlayList	MokhtarRazmjoo	Arts	381	Castbox	48
96	The Prancing Pony Podcast	The Prancing Pony Podcast	Arts	424	Megaphone	48
97	Naked Beauty Details temporarily unavailable	Brooke DeVard	Arts	417	Acast	59
98	Bourbon Pursuit	Bourbon Pursuit	Arts	1218	Megaphone	63
99	The Business of Fashion Podcast	The Business of Fashion	Arts	662	Acast	58
100	Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy	Food Friends	Arts	300	Captivate	62

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