Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Society & Culture

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 10 Aug 2025

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08/10/2025

Average data

Episodes: 279

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:52:58

Top 5 authors

1. Wondery (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. The New York Times (3 shows)

4. PodcastOne (3 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (29 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Acast (4 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	282	Nox Solutions	43
2	Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	59
3	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2036	Omny Studio	49
4	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	222	Omny Studio	63
5	Traditional Talk	Traditional Podcast	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	38
6	The Determined Society with Shawn French	Shawn French	Business	205	Libsyn	48
7	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	436	Simplecast	69
8	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	28	Acast	84
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	851	Simplecast	43
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	74
11	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	5	ART19	43
12	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	36	Acast	84
13	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	18	Megaphone	38
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	343	Megaphone	69
15	Migrant Odyssey	stephen barden	Society & Culture	19	Buzzsprout	38
16	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	976	Megaphone	63
17	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1006	Omny Studio	59
18	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MSNBC	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	48
19	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
20	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	985	Libsyn	69
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	63
22	Show Me Something	iHeartPodcasts and The Volume	Society & Culture	2	Omny Studio	43
23	Flesh and Code	Wondery	Society & Culture	11	ART19	69
24	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	164	Megaphone	53
25	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media \| Wondery	Society & Culture	343	ART19	63
26	We Can Do Hard Things	Glennon Doyle and Audacy	Society & Culture	544	Megaphone	69
27	NO SUCH THING	MannyNoahDevan	Society & Culture	28	Acast	79
28	BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley	Sydney Leroux, Ali Riley	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	58
29	What the F*#! Do We Do Now?!	Sumi and Ryan	Society & Culture	11	Captivate	48
30	Liberty Lost	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
31	Call It What It Is	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	109	Omny Studio	59
32	So Supernatural	audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	153	Simplecast	38
33	TED Talks Daily	TED	Education	2116	PRX	39
34	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	69
35	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1452	Megaphone	69
36	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	223	Audioboom	37
37	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Substack	89
38	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	33	Simplecast	58
39	This F***ing Guy!	Ren Martinez and Ginger Golub	Society & Culture	107	Spotify for Podcasters	33
40	Against The Odds	Wondery	Society & Culture	234	ART19	89
41	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	233	Megaphone	43
42	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	37	Megaphone	58
43	This Is Actually Happening	Wondery	Society & Culture	456	ART19	73
44	Earth Ancients	Cliff Dunning	Society & Culture	844	Spreaker	64
45	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	48
46	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	422	Simplecast	59
47	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
48	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	504	Megaphone	48
49	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	68	Simplecast	63
50	Heavyweight	Spotify Studios	Society & Culture	104	Megaphone	59
51	DEAD Talks	David Ferrugio	Society & Culture	220	WideOrbit	48
52	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	873	Unknown	59
53	The Jinger & Jeremy Podcast	Jinger Vuolo, Jeremy Vuolo	Society & Culture	56	Simplecast	42
54	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	98	Buzzsprout	38
55	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	191	Omny Studio	69
56	Lost Boys	Anthony Scaramucci and Scott Galloway	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	84
57	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	71	Simplecast	63
58	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	28	ART19	53
59	I Believe	Joel K. Douglas	Society & Culture	99	Substack	59
60	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	446	Libsyn	58
61	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	43
62	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Wondery	Society & Culture	27	ART19	63
63	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| QCODE	Society & Culture	321	Megaphone	38
64	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	278	Simplecast	48
65	Dirty Rush: The Truth about Sorority Life	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	3	Omny Studio	53
66	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
67	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	58
68	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	229	Megaphone	79
69	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	331	Megaphone	59
70	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	199	Simplecast	59
71	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Spotify Studios	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	73
72	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	482	Megaphone	48
73	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	250	Omny Studio	83
74	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories 2025 Cheating, Scary, AITA and NSFW Reddit Stories	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories	Society & Culture	335	Spreaker	49
75	Kennedy Saves the World	FOX News Podcasts	Society & Culture	500	Megaphone	43
76	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	20	American Public Media	53
77	Scamfluencers	Wondery	Society & Culture	84	ART19	79
78	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	74	Megaphone	58
79	Sounds Like A Cult	Amanda Montell & Isa Medina	Comedy	180	Omny Studio	74
80	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1813	Omny Studio	53
81	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	285	Simplecast	63
82	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
83	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
84	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	433	Nox Solutions	49
85	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	139	Nox Solutions	59
86	Relationsh*t with Kamie Crawford	Kamie Crawford	Society & Culture	181	Megaphone	68
87	Relationship Lab	Herschelle L	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
88	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	429	Unknown	43
89	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	538	Megaphone	38
90	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	89
91	Hysteria	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	361	Simplecast	53
92	Outcast Podcast	Podcast Playground	Society & Culture	170	Unknown	48
93	Uinta Triangle	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	79
94	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	128	Megaphone	59
95	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	53
96	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	100	ART19	58
97	Soul Boom	Rainn Wilson	Society & Culture	64	Megaphone	63
98	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	179	Megaphone	43
99	Unsupervised with Syd & TP	Dear Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	48
100	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	336	Audioboom	47

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