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 06 Feb 2026

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02/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 351

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:58:09

Top 5 authors

1. PodcastOne (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

4. Audible Original (3 shows)

5. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	414	Megaphone	53
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	306	Simplecast	63
3	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
4	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	138	Simplecast	58
6	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	60	ART19	63
7	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	410	Megaphone	48
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
12	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1198	Omny Studio	59
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
14	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
15	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	81	Buzzsprout	38
16	For Good	Joseph "JoJo" Simmons	Society & Culture	39	Libsyn	69
17	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1231	Libsyn	63
18	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
19	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1165	Megaphone	58
20	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	281	Omny Studio	83
21	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
22	Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff	Money News Network	Society & Culture	406	Megaphone	38
23	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
24	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	652	Megaphone	48
25	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	63
26	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	160	Simplecast	73
27	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2845	Acast	43
28	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
29	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	41	Podbean	62
30	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1754	Libsyn	53
31	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	70	ART19	63
32	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	510	Libsyn	52
33	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
34	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
35	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
36	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
37	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
38	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
39	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	62
40	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
42	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	510	ART19	53
43	Voices of Freedom	Rick Graber	Society & Culture	44	Libsyn	79
44	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	117	ART19	68
45	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	690	Megaphone	42
46	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	159	Megaphone	53
47	Against The Odds	Audible Original	Society & Culture	296	ART19	83
48	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	554	Unknown	38
49	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	90	Simplecast	47
50	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
51	The Psychology of Relationships	Julie Krafchick & Yue Xu	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	63
52	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
53	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
54	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
55	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
56	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
57	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	128	Megaphone	38
58	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	69	Megaphone	42
59	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
60	DEE:UNLEASHED	Dominica Dunkwu	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	53
61	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
62	Scamfluencers	Audible Original	Society & Culture	152	ART19	73
63	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	572	Acast	49
64	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	452	Audioboom	38
65	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	729	Libsyn	63
66	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	157	ART19	52
67	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
68	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
69	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	473	ART19	38
70	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
71	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	136	WideOrbit	48
72	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	817	Megaphone	64
73	If You Can Hear Me	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2	N/A	N/A
74	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	364	Megaphone	58
75	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	606	Megaphone	42
76	The Katie Miller Podcast	Katie Miller	Society & Culture	53	Spotify for Podcasters	37
77	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	661	Simplecast	53
78	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
79	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
80	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
81	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
82	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
83	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	253	Megaphone	38
84	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
85	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
86	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
87	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	315	ART19	38
88	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	215	Simplecast	32
89	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	815	Libsyn	32
90	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
91	Unlearn16: Class is in Session	Unlearn16	Society & Culture	188	Buzzsprout	52
92	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
93	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	182	ART19	48
94	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	48
95	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	198	Megaphone	37
96	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	122	ART19	58
97	The Wild Chaos Podcast	Bam - The Wild Chaos	Society & Culture	135	Captivate	73
98	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	196	N/A	N/A
99	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	422	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	612	Megaphone	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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