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 03 Apr 2026

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04/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 407

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:55:38

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

4. PodcastOne (4 shows)

5. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Acast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
2	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
5	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
6	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
7	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
9	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
11	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
12	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1188	Omny Studio	59
13	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
14	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
15	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
19	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
20	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
21	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
22	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	58
23	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
24	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
25	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
26	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
27	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
28	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
29	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
30	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
31	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
32	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
33	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
34	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
35	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
36	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
37	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
38	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	446	Audioboom	38
39	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
40	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
42	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
43	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
44	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
45	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
46	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
47	Casual Chaos	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	243	Omny Studio	53
48	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2826	Acast	43
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
50	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
51	The Martin Sheen Podcast \| Storytelling, Human Interest & Conversations	TE Productions and MSW Media	Society & Culture	30	Simplecast	72
52	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
53	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
54	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
55	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
56	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	469	ART19	38
57	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
58	Comments by Celebs	Dear Media	Society & Culture	1012	ART19	53
59	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	52
60	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
61	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
62	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
63	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
64	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
65	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
66	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
67	It's Me, Tinx	Tinx	Society & Culture	718	Simplecast	63
68	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
69	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
70	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
71	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
72	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
73	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
74	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
75	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	37
76	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
77	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	34	N/A	N/A
78	Call Your Sister with Joy & Jinger	Jinger Vuolo, Joy Forsyth	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	38
79	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
80	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
81	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
82	Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey	Unwell	Society & Culture	135	Simplecast	63
83	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	609	Megaphone	59
84	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
85	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	600	Megaphone	42
86	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	312	ART19	38
87	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	709	Libsyn	63
88	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
89	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	58
90	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	621	Audioboom	73
91	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
92	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
93	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
94	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
95	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
96	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
97	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
98	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	193	N/A	N/A
99	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
100	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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