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 06 Dec 2025

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12/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 227

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:49:30

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
11	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
12	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
17	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
18	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
21	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
23	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
25	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
26	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
28	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	7	Libsyn	58
29	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
34	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
35	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
37	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
38	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
41	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
42	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
43	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
44	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
48	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
49	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
50	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
53	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
54	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
55	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
57	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
58	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
59	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
61	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
63	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
64	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
65	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
69	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
70	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
71	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
72	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
73	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
74	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
75	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
76	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
77	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
78	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
79	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
80	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
81	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
82	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
83	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
84	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
85	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
86	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
87	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
88	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
89	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
90	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
91	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
92	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
93	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
94	Leaked	TFLabs	Science	9	Megaphone	53
95	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
96	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
97	Unclaimed	Ancestry	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	69
98	MiedoScope Historias de Terror en Directo	Miedoscope	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
99	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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