Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Science Fiction

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 17 May 2026

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05/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 190

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:38:57

Top 5 authors

1. QCODE (5 shows)

2. Mark R. Healy (4 shows)

3. Voyage Media (4 shows)

4. Scott Sigler (3 shows)

5. Fool and Scholar Productions (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (43 shows)

2. Acast (13 shows)

3. Libsyn (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (6 shows)

5. ART19 (4 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The NoSleep Podcast	Creative Reason Media Inc.	Fiction	729	Audioboom	48
2	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	380	Megaphone	53
3	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	144	Acast	69
4	EXTRA ANORMAL Details temporarily unavailable	Paco Arias	Fiction	519	Simplecast	53
5	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	68	Megaphone	69
6	The SCP Experience	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	561	Megaphone	59
7	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	534	Simplecast	58
8	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	106	Spotify for Podcasters	48
9	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	10	Acast	69
10	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
11	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
12	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
13	Mission To Zyxx	Mission To Zyxx	Fiction	163	Simplecast	73
14	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
15	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	259	Megaphone	38
16	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	40	Acast	63
17	La Mano Peluda	Radio Fórmula	Fiction	1251	RSS.com	32
18	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
19	Desert Skies	Jared Carter	Fiction	47	Megaphone	54
20	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
21	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	78	Megaphone	53
22	Clarkesworld Magazine	Clarkesworld Magazine	Fiction	1196	Libsyn	43
23	The Silt Verses	Eskew Productions Ltd	Fiction	56	Acast	84
24	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
25	Midst	Critical Role	Fiction	141	Megaphone	68
26	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
27	DUST	Gunpowder & Sky	Fiction	47	Acast	74
28	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	391	Megaphone	63
29	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	58	Megaphone	79
30	INSOMNIO	Fepo	Fiction	167	Simplecast	58
31	Hard Drive	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	73
32	Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League (GFL) Series	Scott Sigler	Fiction	307	Megaphone	68
33	Relatos De Horror (Historias De Terror)	Relatos De Horror	Fiction	2188	Acast	43
34	Something's Amiss at Juniper's House	Bloody FM	Fiction	12	Simplecast	62
35	Spyology Squad	Mr. Jim and Storybutton	Fiction	709	ART19	69
36	Rabbits	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	25	Libsyn	58
37	Redwood Bureau	Eeriecast Network	Fiction	120	Megaphone	53
38	Escape Pod	Escape Artists Foundation	Fiction	300	Libsyn	43
39	End of All Hope	Bloody FM	Fiction	99	Simplecast	68
40	EXTRA ANORMAL	iEX Studios	Fiction	536	Spotify for Podcasters	28
41	Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper	Nathan Lowell \| Scribl	Fiction	124	Megaphone	58
42	The Penumbra Podcast	Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert	Fiction	222	Acast	79
43	EOS 10	Justin McLachlan and PlanetM	Fiction	40	Podbean	58
44	The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature	GZM Shows	Fiction	22	ART19	78
45	Bloodrock Springs	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	23	Megaphone	58
46	Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality Audiobook	Jack Voraces	Fiction	137	Podbean	58
47	Relatos por Santiago Segovia	Campus Originals	Fiction	375	Spotify for Podcasters	22
48	Inverted World Live	Shane Cashman	Fiction	282	Libsyn	68
49	Within the Wires	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	120	Megaphone	63
50	Our Wars Have Ended	Eskew Productions	Fiction	9	Acast	84
51	Nightingale	GZM Shows	Fiction	19	ART19	73
52	Caso 63	Spotify Studios	Fiction	63	Megaphone	59
53	Star Trek: Khan	Star Trek	Fiction	10	Megaphone	63
54	The Infected Trilogy	Scott Sigler	Fiction	94	Megaphone	84
55	The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality	Dominic Guilfoyle	Fiction	74	Acast	89
56	Beyond the Dark	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	19	Megaphone	59
57	90 Degrees South Details temporarily unavailable	BMB Productions LLC	Fiction	85	Buzzsprout	83
58	The 21CD Podcast	The 21CD Podcast	Fiction	181	Audioboom	32
59	I Am Echo	Voyage Media	Fiction	22	Megaphone	73
60	ars PARADOXICA	ars PARADOXICA	Fiction	49	Libsyn	N/A
61	Conversations with Ghosts	Dead Signals	Fiction	18	Libsyn	62
62	WOE.BEGONE	WOE.BEGONE Industries LLC	Fiction	360	Acast	58
63	Havoc Town	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	79
64	I Am In Eskew	David Ward	Fiction	32	Acast	69
65	Galactic Horrors	Galactic Horrors	Fiction	754	Acast	53
66	Expediente No Humano	Fepo	Fiction	42	Spotify for Podcasters	32
67	Ward Audiobook	Parahuman Audio	Fiction	281	Unknown	49
68	Dirt - An Audio Drama	STUDIO5705	Fiction	50	Megaphone	63
69	Darmok and Jalad at Podcast: Star Trek TNG rewatch	Pickaxe	Fiction	43	Megaphone	52
70	Sanctuary	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	RedCircle	78
71	Our Fair City	Audacious Machine Creative	Fiction	107	ART19	68
72	Station 151	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	40	Megaphone	78
73	Trap Street	Tony Martinez and Michael P. Greco	Fiction	28	Megaphone	59
74	Hello From The Hallowoods	William A. Wellman	Fiction	233	Buzzsprout	57
75	VAST Horizon	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	38	Megaphone	69
76	From Now	QCODE	Fiction	7	Megaphone	73
77	Evergreen	QCODE	Fiction	10	Megaphone	83
78	Ghost Wax	Far and Tall Tales	Fiction	76	Spreaker	69
79	Red Valley	Kontinue Productions	Fiction	48	Megaphone	53
80	The Liberty Podcast	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	90	Megaphone	73
81	Ad Lucem	QCODE	Fiction	10	Megaphone	83
82	The Deca Tapes	Lex Noteboom	Fiction	25	Megaphone	69
83	Terrores Nocturnos	Terrores Nocturnos	Fiction	394	Megaphone	58
84	Consumed	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	73
85	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	69	Acast	63
86	Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? with Dylan & Dalton	Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth	Fiction	81	Unknown	83
87	Lorekeeper's Librarium	Tobias Weaver	Fiction	87	RedCircle	48
88	SIRENS: Season of the Seawitch	Travis Alexander	Fiction	6	Buzzsprout	73
89	The Doctor Who Audio Dramas	Everlasting Films	Fiction	444	Podbean	37
90	The Cleansed: A Post-Apocalyptic Saga	Realm	Fiction	40	Megaphone	58
91	Moonbase Theta, Out	D.J. Sylvis	Fiction	134	Megaphone	63
92	The Sanderlanche Podcast	thesanderlanche	Fiction	297	Podbean	37
93	Starship Excelsior: A Star Trek Fan Audio Drama	Excelsior Productions	Fiction	64	Feedburner	63
94	The Death Of The Bees and Other Things That Sting	Kyla Sylvers	Fiction	7	Captivate	38
95	The Phenomenon	Luciola Creative	Fiction	33	Libsyn	63
96	The Mystery Frequency \| Audio Drama Radio	The Mystery Frequency	Fiction	1030	RedCircle	53
97	NOCTURNAL	Scott Sigler	Fiction	49	Megaphone	74
98	SCP: Find Us Alive	Hodgepodge Audio	Fiction	76	RedCircle	48
99	Upvoted / NoSleep: Scary Stories	No Sleep Reddit RSlash Fiction Horror Story	Fiction	79	Megaphone	43
100	Birds of Empire	QCODE	Fiction	33	Megaphone	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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