Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Documentary

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 May 2026

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05/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:45:43

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Podgo (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
7	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
13	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
15	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
21	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
26	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
35	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
36	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
39	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
40	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
41	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
48	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
49	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
50	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
53	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
55	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
57	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
58	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
59	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
64	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
65	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
66	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
67	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
69	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
70	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
71	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
72	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
74	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
77	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
78	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
79	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
80	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
81	The As Told By Podcast	Kahja Elliott	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
82	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
83	Frontier Fables	Podgo	Society & Culture	3	ART19	53
84	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
85	Everyday Heroes	Podgo	Society & Culture	4	ART19	53
86	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	Crazy House Mysteries	Podgo	Society & Culture	4	ART19	53
89	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
90	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
91	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
92	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
93	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
94	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
95	Buckeye Bigfoot	Nance Warren	Society & Culture	105	Spreaker	64
96	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
97	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
98	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
99	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
100	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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