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 04 Sep 2025

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09/04/2025

Average data

Episodes: 328

Frequency: every 53 days

Duration: 00:53:10

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (4 shows)

2. The New York Times (4 shows)

3. Dear Media (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (28 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Acast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	396	Megaphone	48
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	398	Megaphone	53
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	512	Simplecast	38
7	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	63
8	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	79	Simplecast	47
9	Traditional Talk	Traditional Podcast	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	38
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
13	What the F*#! Do We Do Now?!	Sumi and Ryan	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	48
14	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1203	Libsyn	63
15	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	63	ART19	63
16	You, Me & Mike	Thirteen Media	Society & Culture	51	Buzzsprout	83
17	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
18	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1146	Megaphone	58
19	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
20	The Night Owl: True Ghost Stories	Night Owl Paranormal Investigations	Society & Culture	90	Buzzsprout	42
21	The Chisme Corner with Vee Rivera	Sonoro	Society & Culture	35	Simplecast	62
22	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	102	ART19	68
23	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1179	Omny Studio	59
24	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
25	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2167	Acast	43
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
27	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
28	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	63
29	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
30	Migrant Odyssey	stephen barden	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	38
31	Alive with Steve Burns	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	79
32	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
33	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
34	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	638	Megaphone	48
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
36	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
37	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	62
38	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
39	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
40	Tell Me Your Ghost Story	Kassie Askin	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	58
41	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1721	Libsyn	53
42	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	122	Megaphone	38
43	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
44	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
45	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	798	Megaphone	58
46	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
47	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	289	ART19	83
48	Morrow Marriage \| Disrupting Divorce	Cass & Kathryn Morrow	Society & Culture	484	Buzzsprout	68
49	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	150	ART19	52
50	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
51	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	152	Simplecast	73
52	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	409	Spotify for Podcasters	28
53	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
54	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
55	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	68
56	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	274	Omny Studio	83
57	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
58	Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	212	Omny Studio	63
59	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
60	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
61	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
62	Don't Think with Carla Bezanson	Dear Media	Society & Culture	51	ART19	42
63	Surrounded	Jubilee Media	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	53
64	Outcast Podcast	Podcast Playground	Society & Culture	180	Unknown	48
65	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	503	Libsyn	52
66	Suave	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	20	PRX	84
67	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	47	Simplecast	58
68	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
69	No Stupid Questions	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	338	Simplecast	63
70	Unlocking Us with Brené Brown	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	134	Megaphone	53
71	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	670	Megaphone	42
72	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	803	Megaphone	64
73	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	208	Simplecast	32
74	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
75	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	593	Megaphone	42
76	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
77	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
78	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	69
79	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
80	Liberty Lost	Audible	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
81	The Resolution Room	Lowe Insights Consulting	Society & Culture	39	Buzzsprout	84
82	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
83	Run, Bambi, Run	Apple TV+ / Campside Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	69
84	The Katie Miller Podcast	Katie Miller	Society & Culture	53	Spotify for Podcasters	37
85	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	176	ART19	48
86	Dirty Rush: The Truth about Sorority Life	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	53
87	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
88	American Hysteria	chelsey weber-smith	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	83
89	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
90	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	118	Megaphone	52
91	Call Your Sister with Joy & Jinger	Jinger Vuolo, Joy Forsyth	Society & Culture	112	Megaphone	38
92	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
93	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
94	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	565	Acast	49
95	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Society & Culture	578	Megaphone	43
96	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
97	Kennedy Saves the World	FOX News Podcasts	Society & Culture	500	Megaphone	43
98	Flipping Tables	Monte Mader	Society & Culture	64	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
100	Order of Man	Ryan Michler	Society & Culture	1419	Libsyn	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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