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 Mar 2026

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03/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 336

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:54:07

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. The New York Times (4 shows)

3. Audible (3 shows)

4. PodcastOne (3 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Acast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	53
3	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
4	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
10	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
14	How To Fail With Elizabeth Day	Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	68
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
16	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
17	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
19	Penitencia	Sonoro \| Alex Reider, Saskia Niño de Rivera, Sebastian Arrechedera	Society & Culture	360	Simplecast	53
20	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
21	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	63
22	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
23	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1209	Libsyn	63
24	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
25	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1730	Libsyn	53
26	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
27	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
28	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	676	Megaphone	42
29	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1151	Megaphone	58
30	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
31	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
32	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
33	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
34	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
35	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
36	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
37	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	505	ART19	53
38	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
39	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
40	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
41	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
42	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	47
43	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	33	N/A	N/A
44	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
45	Furious Thoughts	CAKE MEDIA	Society & Culture	5	Megaphone	53
46	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
47	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2820	Acast	43
48	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	140	Simplecast	62
49	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
50	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
51	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
52	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	445	Audioboom	38
53	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
54	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	36	Podbean	62
55	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
56	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
57	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
58	Sidedoor	Smithsonian Institution	Society & Culture	241	PRX	59
59	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
60	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
61	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
62	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
63	The Katie Miller Podcast	Katie Miller	Society & Culture	53	Spotify for Podcasters	37
64	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
65	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
66	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
67	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
68	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
69	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
70	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
71	Attention Lab	School of Radical Attention	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	69
72	No Country for Old Women	Jennifer Romolini & Kimberly Harrington	Society & Culture	28	Acast	63
73	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
74	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
75	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
76	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
77	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	276	Omny Studio	83
78	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	355	Megaphone	58
79	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
80	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
81	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
82	It Turns Out	Kara Miller	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	83
83	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
84	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
85	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
86	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
87	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
88	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
89	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
90	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
91	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
92	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
93	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	161	Simplecast	69
94	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
95	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	704	Libsyn	63
96	Humanism Now	Humanise Live	Society & Culture	94	Megaphone	89
97	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	64	Simplecast	58
98	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
99	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
100	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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