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 13 May 2026

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05/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:45:59

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

3. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

4. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
6	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
7	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
11	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
12	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
15	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
24	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
25	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
27	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
28	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
29	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
32	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
33	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
36	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
38	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
40	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
41	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
44	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
45	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
48	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
49	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
52	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
53	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
54	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
55	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
57	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
58	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
59	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
62	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
63	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
64	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
65	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
66	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
67	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
68	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
69	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
70	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
71	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
72	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
73	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
76	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
77	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
78	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
79	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
80	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
81	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
82	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
84	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
85	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
86	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
87	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
88	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
89	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
90	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
91	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
93	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
94	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
95	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
96	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
97	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
100	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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