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 Jun 2025

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06/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 379

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:55:19

Top 5 authors

1. PodcastOne (5 shows)

2. Audible (3 shows)

3. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

4. Vox Media Podcast Network (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (27 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
2	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
3	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
4	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
8	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
10	Fail Better with David Duchovny	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	141	Omny Studio	73
11	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	58
12	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1188	Omny Studio	59
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
14	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
15	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
16	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	621	Audioboom	73
17	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
18	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
19	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
20	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
21	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
22	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
23	The Optimist Project with Yara Shahidi	SiriusXM Podcasts	Society & Culture	24	Simplecast	48
24	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
25	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	27	WideOrbit	48
26	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
27	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
28	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	312	ART19	38
29	BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley	Sydney Leroux, Ali Riley	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	58
30	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
31	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
32	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
33	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
34	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
35	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2826	Acast	43
36	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
37	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
38	Cult of Body & Soul	Jess Rothschild & Broadway Podcast Network	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
39	Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World	Global	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	73
40	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
41	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
42	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
43	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
44	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
45	Dear Tisia	Relationship Restored	Society & Culture	44	Spreaker	64
46	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
47	Barely Famous	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	258	ART19	53
48	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
49	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
50	Uinta Triangle	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	79
51	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	42
52	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
53	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
54	Earth Ancients	Cliff Dunning	Society & Culture	850	Spreaker	64
55	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
56	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	118	ART19	58
57	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
58	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
59	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
60	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
61	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
62	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
63	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	164	Simplecast	69
64	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
65	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
66	Other People's Problems	CBC	Society & Culture	56	Triton Digital	69
67	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
68	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
69	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
70	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
71	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
72	Outlaws with TS Madison	iHeartPodcast	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	89
73	Call Your Sister with Joy & Jinger	Jinger Vuolo, Joy Forsyth	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	38
74	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	286	Libsyn	48
75	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
76	The Wrong Ones	Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	29	Libsyn	59
77	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
78	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
79	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	37
80	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
81	Being Jewish with Jonah Platt Details temporarily unavailable	Jonah Platt	Religion & Spirituality	110	Transistor	63
82	Unlocking Us with Brené Brown	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	134	Megaphone	53
83	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	52
84	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
85	Morrow Marriage \| Disrupting Divorce	Cass & Kathryn Morrow	Society & Culture	487	Buzzsprout	68
86	Kennedy Saves the World	FOX News Podcasts	Society & Culture	1151	Megaphone	48
87	GRG the pod	Manifest Media	Society & Culture	18	RedCircle	59
88	Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	279	Omny Studio	48
89	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	637	Acast	38
90	Hey Dude... The 90s Called!	YMG	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	48
91	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	802	Megaphone	58
92	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
93	Jillian on Love	Jillian Turecki \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	216	Megaphone	83
94	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
95	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
96	Not Loveline	Tana Mongeau and Trish Paytas	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	38
97	The Brett Cooper Show	Brett Cooper	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	68
98	Making Space with Hoda Kotb	Hoda Kotb, TODAY	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	68
99	Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts	The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	199	Omny Studio	48
100	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48

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