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 Aug 2025

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08/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 333

Frequency: every 51 days

Duration: 00:54:19

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (5 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. The New York Times (4 shows)

4. Dear Media (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (20 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Acast (4 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	398	Megaphone	53
3	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
4	Traditional Talk	Traditional Podcast	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	38
5	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	63
6	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	512	Simplecast	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
9	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	244	Simplecast	63
10	Flesh and Code	Audible	Society & Culture	11	ART19	63
11	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	79	Simplecast	47
12	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
13	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	63	ART19	63
14	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
16	Liberty Lost	Audible	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
17	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1146	Megaphone	58
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	What the F*#! Do We Do Now?!	Sumi and Ryan	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	48
20	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1203	Libsyn	63
21	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1179	Omny Studio	59
22	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
23	Migrant Odyssey	stephen barden	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	38
24	No Hesitation with Sophie Cunningham & Drew Hanlen	iHeartPodcasts and The Volume	Sports	49	Omny Studio	48
25	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	638	Megaphone	48
26	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
27	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	396	Megaphone	48
28	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	102	ART19	68
29	BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley	Sydney Leroux, Ali Riley	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	58
30	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
31	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
32	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
33	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
34	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2167	Acast	43
35	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
36	Uinta Triangle	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	79
37	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
38	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
39	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	47	Simplecast	58
40	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
41	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	289	ART19	83
42	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	208	Simplecast	32
43	Dirty Rush: The Truth about Sorority Life	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	53
44	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
45	GRG the pod	Manifest Media	Society & Culture	18	RedCircle	59
46	Soul Boom	Rainn Wilson	Society & Culture	97	Megaphone	69
47	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1721	Libsyn	53
48	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	62
49	Earth Ancients	Cliff Dunning	Society & Culture	850	Spreaker	64
50	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	183	Simplecast	58
51	Lost Boys	Anthony Scaramucci and Scott Galloway	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	84
52	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
53	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
54	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	670	Megaphone	42
55	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	122	Megaphone	38
56	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
57	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
58	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
59	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	274	Omny Studio	83
60	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	503	Libsyn	52
61	The Protocol	The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	63
62	Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	212	Omny Studio	63
63	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
64	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
65	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	540	Unknown	38
66	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	63
67	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	68
68	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
69	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
70	Charlie's Place	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	6	Omny Studio	69
71	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
72	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
73	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
74	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	152	Simplecast	73
75	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
76	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	176	ART19	48
77	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
78	How Is This Better?	COURIER	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	69
79	Call Your Sister with Joy & Jinger	Jinger Vuolo, Joy Forsyth	Society & Culture	112	Megaphone	38
80	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
81	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	118	Megaphone	52
82	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	115	ART19	58
83	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Society & Culture	578	Megaphone	43
84	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	615	Audioboom	63
85	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	205	Libsyn	68
86	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	798	Megaphone	58
87	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	351	Megaphone	58
88	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	409	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
90	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
91	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	803	Megaphone	64
92	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	136	Simplecast	62
93	A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over	Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
94	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
95	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
96	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
97	The Brett Cooper Show	Brett Cooper	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	68
98	Unlocking Us with Brené Brown	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	134	Megaphone	53
99	Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts	The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	199	Omny Studio	48
100	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	150	ART19	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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