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 17 May 2026

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05/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:46:04

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (18 shows)

3. Acast (16 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
5	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
7	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
11	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
12	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
15	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
23	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
26	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
27	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
32	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
33	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
35	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
38	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
41	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
42	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
43	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
44	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
45	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
46	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
47	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
48	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
49	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
50	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
52	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
53	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
55	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
56	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
57	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
61	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
66	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
69	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
70	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
71	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
72	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
73	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
74	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
75	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
76	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
77	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
78	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
79	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
80	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
81	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
82	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
83	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
84	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
85	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
86	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
87	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
88	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
89	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
90	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
91	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
92	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
93	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
94	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
95	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
96	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
97	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
98	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
99	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
100	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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