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 May 2026

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05/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:45:51

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (17 shows)

3. Acast (17 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	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	314	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
12	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
15	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
20	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
24	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
29	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
30	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
31	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
32	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
33	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
35	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
36	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
39	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
40	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
41	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
44	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
45	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
47	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
48	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
50	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
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
52	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
53	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
54	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
55	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
56	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
57	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
58	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
59	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
60	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
61	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
65	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
66	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	713	Omny Studio	53
68	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
69	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
72	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
73	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
74	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
75	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
78	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
79	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
80	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
81	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
82	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
83	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
84	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
85	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
86	Humankind on Public Radio	David Freudberg	Society & Culture	77	Blubrry	43
87	The Church Studio Presents Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time	The Church Studio	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
88	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
89	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
90	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
91	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
94	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
95	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
96	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
97	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
98	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
99	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
100	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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