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 05 Jan 2026

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01/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 374

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:53:14

Top 5 authors

1. The New York Times (4 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher (3 shows)

4. NPR (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (23 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Acast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	53
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
7	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
8	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
11	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
12	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
13	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1186	Omny Studio	59
16	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
17	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
18	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
20	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
21	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	401	Megaphone	48
22	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	643	Megaphone	48
23	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
24	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
27	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1213	Libsyn	63
28	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2822	Acast	43
29	Love Me	CBC	Society & Culture	40	Triton Digital	63
30	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
31	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
32	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
33	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
34	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
35	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	108	ART19	68
36	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
37	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
38	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
39	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
40	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
41	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
42	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
43	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
44	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
45	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	808	Megaphone	64
46	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
47	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
48	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	652	Simplecast	53
49	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
50	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
51	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	805	Libsyn	32
52	Family Secrets	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	253	Omny Studio	48
53	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	244	Simplecast	63
54	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
55	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
56	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
57	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
58	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
59	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
60	Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer	Headgum & Nicole Byer	Society & Culture	468	ART19	68
61	Travel with Rick Steves	Rick Steves	Society & Culture	1082	Unknown	38
62	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	678	Megaphone	42
63	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
64	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
65	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
66	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
67	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
68	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	58
69	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	37
70	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
71	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
72	Don't Listen To Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	53
73	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
74	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
75	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
76	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
77	Jillian on Love	Jillian Turecki \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	216	Megaphone	83
78	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
79	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	620	Audioboom	73
80	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
81	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
82	Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	107	Omny Studio	69
83	Happy Healthy Caregiver	Elizabeth Miller Featured on The Whole Care Network	Society & Culture	244	Podcast.co	79
84	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	708	Libsyn	63
85	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
86	No Stupid Questions	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	340	Simplecast	63
87	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	197	Simplecast	62
88	In Bed With The Right	Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan	Society & Culture	129	RSS.com	62
89	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	427	RedCircle	59
90	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	163	Simplecast	69
91	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	636	Acast	38
92	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
93	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
94	For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast	Jen Hatmaker	Society & Culture	628	WideOrbit	42
95	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
96	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
97	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
98	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
99	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	64	Simplecast	58
100	Unlearn16: Class is in Session	Unlearn16	Society & Culture	188	Buzzsprout	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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