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 26 Apr 2025

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04/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. BBC (6 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	945	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
4	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
5	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
6	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
9	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
11	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
12	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
13	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
15	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
18	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
20	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
23	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
26	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
28	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
29	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
35	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
36	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	458	RedCircle	59
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
40	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
41	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
45	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
46	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
47	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
48	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
49	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
51	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
55	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
56	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
58	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
59	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
62	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
63	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
65	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
66	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
67	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
68	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	This is My Thing	Michael Lee	Society & Culture	17	PRX	79
71	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
72	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
73	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
74	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
77	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
78	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
79	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
80	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
81	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
82	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
84	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
85	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
86	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	586	Spreaker	74
87	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
88	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
89	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
90	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
91	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
92	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
93	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
94	The Superhero Complex	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
95	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
96	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
97	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
98	10 Mujeres	Wondery \| Dudas Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	89
99	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
100	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	565	Spreaker	60

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