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 16 Apr 2026

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04/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 191

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:46:21

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (18 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
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	314	Megaphone	42
7	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
8	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
12	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
16	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
22	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
23	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
33	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
37	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
40	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
41	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
42	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
43	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
44	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
47	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
48	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
52	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
53	My Phantom Memory	Silver Podcast Network	Society & Culture	4	RedCircle	49
54	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
55	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
56	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
58	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
60	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
61	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
62	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
65	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
67	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
69	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
71	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
72	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
73	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	713	Omny Studio	53
74	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
75	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
76	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
77	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
78	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
79	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
80	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
81	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
82	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
83	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
85	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
86	Migrating to America: A Dream Worth Dying For	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	48
87	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
88	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
89	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
90	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
91	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
95	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	92	Acast	89
96	Sinister with Josh Zeman	Sinister with Josh Zeman	Society & Culture	1	Unknown	59
97	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
98	MiedoScope Historias de Terror en Directo	Miedoscope	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
99	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
100	Reasons We Serve: Police Careers & Officer Experience	Reasons We Serve	Society & Culture	218	Spreaker	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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