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 01 Jul 2025

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07/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 342

Frequency: every 61 days

Duration: 00:51:05

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (6 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. Dear Media (4 shows)

4. The New York Times (4 shows)

5. Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Liberty Lost	Audible	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	53
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	47
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
10	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	58
11	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1209	Libsyn	63
12	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1150	Megaphone	58
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1184	Omny Studio	59
15	Traditional Talk	Traditional Podcast	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	38
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
17	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
18	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
19	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	66	Spreaker	84
20	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
21	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
22	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
23	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
24	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2818	Acast	43
25	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
26	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
27	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
28	The Protocol	The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	63
29	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
30	Uinta Triangle	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	79
31	BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley	Sydney Leroux, Ali Riley	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	58
32	Earth Ancients	Cliff Dunning	Society & Culture	850	Spreaker	64
33	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
36	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
37	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
38	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
39	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
40	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
41	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	123	Megaphone	38
42	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
43	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
44	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
45	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
46	Can I Walk With You?	Thoraya	Society & Culture	16	Libsyn	58
47	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
48	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
49	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
50	Barely Famous	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	257	ART19	53
51	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	64	Simplecast	58
52	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
53	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
54	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1730	Libsyn	53
55	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	276	Omny Studio	83
56	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
57	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
58	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
59	The Brett Cooper Show	Brett Cooper	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	68
60	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
61	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
62	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
63	GRG the pod	Manifest Media	Society & Culture	18	RedCircle	59
64	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
65	Suave	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	20	PRX	84
66	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
67	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
68	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	206	Libsyn	68
69	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	177	ART19	48
70	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
71	Dying For Sex	Audible	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
72	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
73	Flesh and Code	Audible	Society & Culture	11	ART19	63
74	Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels	Jillian Michaels	Society & Culture	971	Unknown	43
75	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73
76	Astonishing Legends	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	466	Audioboom	63
77	How Is This Better?	COURIER	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	69
78	Travel with Rick Steves	Rick Steves	Society & Culture	1082	Unknown	38
79	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
80	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	63
81	No Stupid Questions	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	339	Simplecast	63
82	De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	43
83	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	355	Megaphone	58
84	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
85	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	122	Megaphone	52
86	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	800	Megaphone	58
87	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	193	N/A	N/A
88	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
89	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	Landlines with Allison Williams	Headgum	Society & Culture	16	ART19	73
91	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
92	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	26	WideOrbit	48
93	The Atlas Obscura Podcast	SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura	Society & Culture	1438	Simplecast	47
94	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
95	Boysober	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	89
96	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
97	Open Discussion	Darryl Carr	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
98	The Wrong Ones	Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	29	Libsyn	59
99	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
100	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	244	Simplecast	63

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