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 20 May 2026

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05/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:45:48

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (18 shows)

3. Acast (17 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
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	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
9	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
11	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
20	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
31	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
35	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
37	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
38	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
41	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
42	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
43	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
44	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
47	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
48	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
51	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
56	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
57	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
59	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
64	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
65	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
66	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
67	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
68	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
69	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
70	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
71	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
72	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
73	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
74	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
75	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
76	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
79	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
80	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
83	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
84	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
85	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
86	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
87	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
88	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
89	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
90	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
91	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
94	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
95	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
96	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
98	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
99	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
100	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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