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 31 Jan 2026

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01/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 195

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:46:45

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

3. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. PRX (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
7	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
11	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
19	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
21	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
25	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	7	Libsyn	58
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
29	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
32	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
33	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
37	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
43	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
44	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
47	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
48	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
49	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
52	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
53	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
54	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
55	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
56	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
60	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
62	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
63	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
64	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
65	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
66	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
67	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
68	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
69	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
70	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
71	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
72	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
73	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
74	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	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
78	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
79	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
80	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
81	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	63
82	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
83	Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations	CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk	Society & Culture	16	ART19	83
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
86	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
87	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
88	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
89	You Look Like Me	Louise McLoughlin	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	53
90	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
91	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
95	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
96	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
97	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
98	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	646	Acast	69
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
100	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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