Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - General

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 02 Nov 2026

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11/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 565

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:56:17

Top 5 authors

1. NPR (6 shows)

2. ABC News (2 shows)

3. The Ringer (2 shows)

4. Shekhar Natarajan (1 shows)

5. Shawn Ryan (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (27 shows)

2. Megaphone (25 shows)

3. Unknown (9 shows)

4. Libsyn (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Daily	The New York Times	News	69	Simplecast	48
2	Pod Save America	Pod Save America	News	1200	Audioboom	53
3	The Joe Rogan Experience	Joe Rogan	Comedy	2000	Megaphone	43
4	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	53
5	SmartLess	Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett	Comedy	384	Simplecast	69
6	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
7	Up First from NPR	NPR	News	500	Simplecast	53
8	REAL AF with Andy Frisella	Andy Frisella	Business	1398	Libsyn	32
9	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
10	Good Hang with Amy Poehler	The Ringer	Comedy	89	Megaphone	52
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
12	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	902	Simplecast	68
13	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
14	Mick Unplugged	Mick Hunt	Education	317	Megaphone	79
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
16	The Mel Robbins Podcast	Mel Robbins	Education	453	Simplecast	73
17	Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!	NPR	Comedy	300	Simplecast	32
18	Unblinded with Sean Callagy	Sean Callagy	Business	24	Spotify for Podcasters	32
19	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
20	The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk	Ryan Hawk	Business	713	Libsyn	42
21	The Dylan Gemelli Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Dylan Gemelli	Health & Fitness	155	RSS.com	62
22	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1147	WideOrbit	53
23	Coffeez with Joe Shalaby	Joseph Shalaby	Business	155	Captivate	69
24	The Rest Is History	Goalhanger	History	737	Megaphone	63
25	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	152	ART19	58
26	The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex	Paul Alex Espinoza	Business	1294	RSS.com	37
27	We Fixed It, You're Welcome	We Fixed It, You're Welcome	Business	100	Megaphone	58
28	Bred To Lead	Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs	Business	39	Unknown	63
29	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	63
30	Proven Podcast	Charles Schwartz	Business	86	Libsyn	62
31	The Code To Winning	Kagiso Dikane	Business	94	Unknown	63
32	Pardon My Take	Barstool Sports	Sports	926	Unknown	53
33	The Megyn Kelly Show	SiriusXM	News	2015	Simplecast	58
34	Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley	Ryan Hanley	Business	470	Simplecast	68
35	Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast	Hala Taha \| Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing \| YAP Media Network	Business	807	Megaphone	58
36	Listen & Laugh with Ice Cube and Mike Epps	BlueJay Partners	Society & Culture	1	Megaphone	52
37	We!	Joe Mittiga	Education	70	Buzzsprout	43
38	Habits and Hustle	Jen Cohen	Business	278	Libsyn	53
39	Passion Struck with John R. Miles	Passion Struck with John R. Miles	Health & Fitness	842	Simplecast	63
40	The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett	DOAC	Business	905	Unknown	64
41	Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard	Armchair Umbrella	Comedy	1122	ART19	63
42	Tomorrow, Today	Shekhar Natarajan	Technology	48	Simplecast	63
43	The Bill Simmons Podcast	The Ringer	Sports	1651	Megaphone	32
44	The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)	Ascension	Religion & Spirituality	1862	Fireside	43
45	All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg	All-In Podcast, LLC	Technology	442	Libsyn	42
46	The MeidasTouch Podcast	MeidasTouch Network	News	4616	WideOrbit	48
47	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	35	Omny Studio	63
48	Giggly Squad	Hannah Berner & Paige DeSorbo	Comedy	362	Simplecast	63
49	the bossbabe podcast	Natalie Ellis	Business	503	Megaphone	58
50	Machine Gods	NPR	Technology	5	Simplecast	53
51	NPR News Now	NPR	News	4	Simplecast	48
52	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	569	Simplecast	57
53	Build or Break	Daniel Lubetzky	Business	14	Unknown	69
54	The Bulwark Podcast	The Bulwark	News	506	Audioboom	32
55	The Builders	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	63
56	The Tucker Carlson Show	Tucker Carlson Network	News	465	Megaphone	53
57	Business MVP	Sammy Peterson	Business	20	Megaphone	63
58	This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von	Theo Von	Comedy	590	Megaphone	42
59	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	415	Megaphone	53
60	The Team House	dee takos	History	667	Spreaker	64
61	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	63
62	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1239	Omny Studio	38
63	Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science	Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science	Technology	80	Audioboom	57
64	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
65	Live Free with Josh Howerton	Lakepointe Church	Religion & Spirituality	611	Megaphone	38
66	Collector Nation	Collector Nation	Sports	126	Unknown	94
67	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	677	Simplecast	63
68	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
69	The Ramsey Show	Ramsey Network	Business	180	Megaphone	53
70	Deceived: The Daybell Story	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	3	Unknown	58
71	We're Out of Time	Richard Taite	Health & Fitness	106	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	The Tim Dillon Show	The Tim Dillon Show	Comedy	377	Audioboom	42
73	The Ben Shapiro Show Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Daily Wire	News Commentary	2000	N/A	N/A
74	Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice	The Radcast Network	Business	680	Unknown	63
75	The Toast	Dear Media	Comedy	1374	Megaphone	48
76	The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It	Dr. Amie Hornaman	Health & Fitness	679	Unknown	48
77	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
78	The Joe Budden Podcast	The Joe Budden Network	Music	775	Libsyn	32
79	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
80	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1221	Simplecast	58
81	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
82	Founder's Story	IBH Media	Business	396	Simplecast	63
83	The Money Mondays	Dan Fleyshman	Business	172	Spotify for Podcasters	53
84	The Home Service Expert Podcast	Tommy Mello: $200 Million Founder\|Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur Columnist	Business	520	Libsyn	32
85	3 Takeaways™	Lynn Thoman	Business	327	Buzzsprout	68
86	Serial	Serial Productions & The New York Times	News	126	Simplecast	69
87	The Jamie Kern Lima Show	Jamie Kern Lima	Education	120	Megaphone	69
88	Pivot	New York Magazine	News	825	Megaphone	63
89	IHIP News	Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan	News	1908	Megaphone	53
90	The Moth	The Moth	Arts	503	WideOrbit	49
91	What Comes Next with Arun	Arunansu Pattanayak	Technology	17	Buzzsprout	48
92	Huberman Lab	Scicomm Media	Health & Fitness	455	Megaphone	69
93	Acquired	Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal	Technology	218	Transistor	68
94	Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend	Team Coco & Earwolf	Comedy	745	Simplecast	68
95	Fresh Air	NPR	Arts	300	Simplecast	59
96	The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart	Comedy Central	Comedy	98	Megaphone	52
97	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
98	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
99	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
100	Planet Money	NPR	Business	355	Simplecast	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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