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 Aug 2026

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08/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 415

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:56:37

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. PodcastOne (4 shows)

3. Audible (4 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

5. Dear Media (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Simplecast (18 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	398	Megaphone	53
2	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
3	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	512	Simplecast	38
4	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
5	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	100	ART19	58
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1179	Omny Studio	59
8	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	63
9	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	102	ART19	68
10	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	503	Libsyn	52
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
12	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1203	Libsyn	63
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1146	Megaphone	58
15	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	428	Megaphone	63
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	396	Megaphone	48
18	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	150	ART19	52
19	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
20	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
21	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
22	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2167	Acast	43
23	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	79	Simplecast	47
24	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
25	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
26	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	122	Megaphone	38
27	Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	212	Omny Studio	63
28	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1721	Libsyn	53
29	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	540	Unknown	38
30	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	846	Megaphone	69
31	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	799	Libsyn	32
32	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
33	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	670	Megaphone	42
34	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	62
35	Open Book with Jenna	TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager	Society & Culture	115	Simplecast	68
36	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
37	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	176	ART19	48
38	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
39	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	289	ART19	83
40	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	48
41	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	208	Simplecast	32
42	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	64	Megaphone	42
43	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
44	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
45	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	152	Simplecast	73
46	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	274	Omny Studio	83
47	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
48	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
49	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	205	Libsyn	68
50	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	647	Simplecast	53
51	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	115	ART19	58
52	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
53	Spike and Hank	Spike and Hank	Society & Culture	4	Podbean	58
54	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	638	Megaphone	48
55	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	593	Megaphone	42
56	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	351	Megaphone	58
57	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
58	独树不成林 Details temporarily unavailable	鬼鬼祟祟的树	Society & Culture	379	Unknown	43
59	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
60	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	798	Megaphone	58
61	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	803	Megaphone	64
62	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	40	Omny Studio	48
63	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	561	ART19	48
64	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
65	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
66	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1099	Simplecast	69
67	Behind The Story Show	Jelani Gonzalez	Society & Culture	59	Buzzsprout	59
68	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	944	Unknown	49
69	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	578	ART19	58
70	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	466	ART19	38
71	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
72	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	69
73	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	696	Libsyn	63
74	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
75	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
76	The Woody Show	ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1386	Spreaker	43
77	Whine Down with Jana Kramer	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	948	Omny Studio	32
78	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
79	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
80	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	63	ART19	63
81	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
84	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
85	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	565	Acast	49
86	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
87	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
88	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	615	Audioboom	63
89	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	68
90	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
91	Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	78
92	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
93	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
94	Simply Relational	Darran Crager and Dr. Shelly Crager	Society & Culture	11	Podetize	59
95	Bill and Giuliana: The Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	42
96	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
97	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
98	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1180	ART19	48
99	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	23	Megaphone	79
100	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	28	Simplecast	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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