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 Oct 2025

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10/18/2025

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Episodes: 360

Frequency: every 10 days

Duration: 00:46:07

Top 5 authors

1. OTR GOLD (4 shows)

2. America's Test Kitchen (2 shows)

3. The New Yorker (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. American Public Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (13 shows)

3. Acast (9 shows)

4. Libsyn (7 shows)

5. PRX (6 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	Spooked	KQED and Snap Studios	Arts	255	Simplecast	63
4	99% Invisible	Roman Mars	Arts	827	Simplecast	58
5	Zero to Well-Read	Book Riot	Arts	59	Megaphone	48
6	The Magnus Archives	Rusty Quill	Arts	405	Acast	74
7	Old School with Shilo Brooks	The Free Press	Arts	35	Megaphone	58
8	Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club	iHeartPodcasts	Arts	17	Omny Studio	52
9	Snap Judgment	Snap Judgment and PRX	Arts	550	PRX	53
10	The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast	Forrest Kelly	Arts	389	Simplecast	62
11	岩中花述 Details temporarily unavailable	GIADA	Arts	86	Unknown	53
12	Walk-In Talk Podcast	Carl Fiadini	Arts	216	Libsyn	48
13	Daily Rosary Meditations \| Catholic Prayers	Dr. Mike Scherschligt	Arts	2000	CoHost	32
14	Home Cooking	Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway	Arts	29	PRX	69
15	Breaking Bread with Tom Papa	All Things Comedy	Arts	347	Megaphone	42
16	Skin Anarchy	Ekta et al.	Arts	806	Buzzsprout	69
17	NPR's Book of the Day	NPR	Arts	1322	Simplecast	63
18	The Chef's Cut	Level Media	Arts	67	Megaphone	58
19	The Jimmy Dore Show	Jimmy Dore	Arts	100	Libsyn	48
20	Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin	Rick Rubin	Arts	203	Megaphone	68
21	Inklings Book Club	Jack Edwards	Arts	57	Megaphone	43
22	Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio	Milk Street Radio	Arts	569	PRX	43
23	Selected Shorts	Symphony Space	Arts	37	Simplecast	43
24	The Art of Resistance	Amy Lee Lillard	Arts	22	Captivate	58
25	Reading Ferdowsi فردوسی خوانی	Amir Khadem	Arts	196	Blubrry	32
26	Myths and Legends	Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod	Arts	540	Audioboom	63
27	Catholic Bible Study	Augustine Institute	Arts	257	Simplecast	63
28	Fantasy Fangirls	Fantasy Fangirls	Arts	212	Acast	63
29	The Book Review	The New York Times	Arts	2	Simplecast	48
30	The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio\| Daily Mystery Dramas	Adam Graham\|Old Time Radio Detective Host	Arts	1000	Spreaker	73
31	The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters	American Public Media	Arts	791	American Public Media	32
32	The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan	Billy Corgan	Arts	86	ART19	47
33	Origin Stories	Campside Media	Arts	10	Acast	73
34	Articles of Interest	Avery Trufelman	Arts	69	PRX	73
35	Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud	Bella Freud	Arts	94	Megaphone	63
36	The Sporkful	Dan Pashman	Arts	326	Simplecast	68
37	The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily	American Public Media	Arts	399	American Public Media	32
38	The iDesign Lab Podcast \| Where Design, Business, and Culture Shape How We Live and Build	Tiffany Woolley, Scott Woolley	Arts	86	Buzzsprout	52
39	LeVar Burton Reads	LeVar Burton and Stitcher	Arts	191	Simplecast	48
40	The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, Book Summary, Podcast, English	Raghvendra Singh	Arts	4	RSS.com	42
41	What Should I Read Next?	Anne Bogel	Arts	542	Megaphone	58
42	The New Yorker: Fiction	The New Yorker	Arts	235	Megaphone	38
43	ill-advised by Bill Nighy	EYEPOD Studios	Arts	26	Acast	73
44	Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast	King Arthur Baking Company	Arts	29	Buzzsprout	57
45	Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware	Jessie Ware	Arts	390	Acast	63
46	Gastropod	Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley	Arts	295	Megaphone	54
47	RISK!	RISK!	Arts	1236	Megaphone	69
48	Design Matters with Debbie Millman	Design Matters Media	Arts	691	Acast	28
49	MrCreepyPasta's Storytime	MrCreepyPasta	Arts	1000	Spreaker	59
50	Extra Dirty with Hallie Batchelder	Hallie Batchelder	Comedy	69	Simplecast	68
51	Gunsmoke \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	477	Megaphone	43
52	The Literary Life Podcast	Angelina Stanford Thomas Banks	Arts	345	Libsyn	62
53	Proof	America's Test Kitchen	Arts	250	Megaphone	48
54	Fictional	Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser \| Nextpod	Arts	58	Libsyn	63
55	Gals on the Go	PodcastOne	Arts	405	Nox Solutions	64
56	Choice Classic Radio Detectives \| Old Time Radio	Choice Classic Radio	Arts	999	Podbean	42
57	CBS Radio Mystery Theater \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	1348	Megaphone	43
58	پلی لیست \| PlayList	MokhtarRazmjoo	Arts	382	Castbox	48
59	The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker	The New Yorker	Arts	1	Megaphone	42
60	Dish	Cold Glass Productions	Arts	181	Megaphone	69
61	Chewed UP	ALL CHEWED UP LLC	Arts	134	Libsyn	79
62	Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	712	Megaphone	43
63	Everyone Should Read	Everyone Should Read	Arts	9	Spotify for Podcasters	43
64	A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich	Mythical	Comedy	327	WideOrbit	48
65	The Chris Hedges Report	Chris Hedges	Arts	100	Podbean	58
66	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Stories	Sherlock Holmes Bedtime Pod	Arts	178	RedCircle	42
67	The Von Haessler Doctrine	Cox Media Group	Arts	1860	StreamGuys	38
68	Dragnet \| Old Time Radio	OTR GOLD	Arts	310	Megaphone	49
69	Scary Stories and Rain	Being Scared	Arts	489	Spotify for Podcasters	33
70	Classical Stuff You Should Know	A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee	Arts	300	Squarespace	63
71	Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)	Mean Streets Podcasts	Arts	840	Libsyn	52
72	Storytime for Grownups	Faith Moore	Arts	254	Buzzsprout	52
73	The Run-Through with Vogue	Vogue	Arts	339	Megaphone	48
74	Twenty Thousand Hertz	Dallas Taylor	Arts	248	PRX	79
75	Aknoon \| اکنون	Aknoontalks	Arts	58	Castbox	58
76	Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day	Merriam-Webster	Arts	10	ART19	48
77	Bourbon Pursuit	Bourbon Pursuit	Arts	1220	Megaphone	63
78	The Shit No One Tells You About Writing	Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra	Arts	449	RedCircle	53
79	All on the Table with Katie Lee Biegel	Dear Media	Arts	110	ART19	58
80	Business of Home Podcast	Business of Home, Dennis Scully	Arts	586	Simplecast	52
81	Fashion People	Audacy \| Puck	Arts	258	WideOrbit	48
82	From the Front Porch	The Bookshelf Thomasville	Arts	614	Podbean	58
83	Poetry Unbound	On Being Studios	Arts	228	Simplecast	83
84	Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy	Food Friends	Arts	300	Captivate	62
85	Jane Austen's Paper Trail	The Conversation	Arts	8	Captivate	58
86	The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly	Lapham’s Quarterly	Arts	117	Soundcloud	43
87	Biohacking Beauty: The Anti-Aging Skincare Podcast	Young Goose	Arts	270	Captivate	68
88	American Gravy	iHeartPodcasts	Arts	16	Omny Studio	49
89	The Recipe with Kenji and Deb	Deb Perelman & J. Kenji López-Alt	Arts	39	PRX	53
90	In the Test Kitchen	America's Test Kitchen	Arts	36	Megaphone	53
91	The Business of Fashion Podcast	The Business of Fashion	Arts	663	Acast	58
92	The Prancing Pony Podcast	The Prancing Pony Podcast	Arts	424	Megaphone	48
93	The Real Time Show	Rob Nudds & Alon Ben Joseph	Arts	395	Buzzsprout	48
94	Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone	Sasha Stone	Arts	290	Substack	48
95	Sentimental Garbage	Justice for Dumb Women	Arts	227	Acast	73
96	Dear Alice \| Interior Design	Alice Lane	Arts	391	Megaphone	42
97	Gloss Angeles Details temporarily unavailable	Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan	Arts	588	Acast	84
98	Scrubs to Stilettos	Dr. Tiffany Moon & Dr. Nicole Martin	Arts	53	Megaphone	69
99	Drama Club with Matty	Drama Club with Matty	Arts	16	Spotify for Podcasters	32
100	The Currently Reading Podcast	Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb	Arts	454	Libsyn	62

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