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 03 Jul 2026

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07/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 187

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:45:22

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Omny Studio (17 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
8	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
10	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
11	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
15	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
16	La Voz de la Generación Irrompible	Yhon Angel	Society & Culture	120	Spotify for Podcasters	32
17	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
18	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
20	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
26	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
27	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
29	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
31	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
33	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
37	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
38	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
39	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
40	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
41	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
42	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
43	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
44	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
48	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
49	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
52	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
53	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
55	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
56	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
57	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
58	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
59	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
60	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
61	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
62	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
64	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
65	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
66	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
67	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
69	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
71	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
74	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
77	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
80	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
81	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
82	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
84	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
85	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
86	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
87	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
88	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
89	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
91	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
92	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
93	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
94	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	714	Omny Studio	53
95	Catastrophic Failure	Times Union	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	64
96	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
97	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
98	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
99	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
100	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	183	Spreaker	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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