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 12 Jun 2026

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06/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 184

Frequency: every 44 days

Duration: 00:46:38

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. KUOW News and Information (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (16 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
8	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
9	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
10	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
11	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
16	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
21	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
29	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
30	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
31	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
34	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
35	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
37	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
38	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
39	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
40	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
45	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
46	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
47	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
50	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
51	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
52	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
53	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
54	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
56	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
57	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
58	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
59	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
60	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
61	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
63	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
64	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
65	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
66	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Pop Mystery Pod	Tess Barker	Society & Culture	93	Simplecast	73
73	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
74	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
75	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
76	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
78	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
79	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
80	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
81	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
82	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
83	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
84	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
85	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
86	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
87	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
88	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
89	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
90	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
91	Out Of The Blue Podcast Series	Accused - Acquitted - Ruined	Society & Culture	3	Substack	48
92	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
93	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
94	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
95	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
96	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
97	Ghost Herd	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	43
98	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
99	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
100	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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