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 22 Apr 2025

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04/22/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:47:10

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC World Service (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 shows)

5. PRX (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
4	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
7	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
10	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
11	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
12	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
17	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
18	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
19	This is My Thing	Michael Lee	Society & Culture	17	PRX	79
20	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
21	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
24	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
28	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
30	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
31	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
35	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
36	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
37	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
47	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
48	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
49	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
51	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
52	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
53	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
55	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
56	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
58	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	647	Acast	69
59	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
60	White Smoke - Pope Leo XIV the American Pope	Caloroga Shark Media	News	132	Spreaker	59
61	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
62	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
65	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
66	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
67	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
68	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
69	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
70	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
71	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
72	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
73	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
74	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
75	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
76	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
77	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
78	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
79	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
82	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
83	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
86	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
87	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
88	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
89	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
90	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
91	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
92	Sold a Story en español	APM Reports	Society & Culture	2	American Public Media	79
93	Stories for Power	StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP)	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	83
94	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
96	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
97	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
98	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
99	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
100	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63

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