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 07 Apr 2026

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04/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 360

Frequency: every 52 days

Duration: 00:54:54

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

3. Audible (3 shows)

4. Dear Media (3 shows)

5. PodcastOne (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Simplecast (20 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Acast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	53
2	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
3	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
4	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
6	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
9	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	108	ART19	68
10	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
11	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
13	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	48
14	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1186	Omny Studio	59
15	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1212	Libsyn	63
19	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
20	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	33	N/A	N/A
21	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
22	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
23	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	401	Megaphone	48
24	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
25	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
26	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
27	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
28	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
29	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	62
30	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
31	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
32	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	445	Audioboom	38
33	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
34	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
35	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
36	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
37	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
38	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
40	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
41	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
42	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1732	Libsyn	53
43	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2821	Acast	43
44	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
45	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	643	Megaphone	48
46	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
47	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
48	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
49	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
50	The Art of Adventure	Arthur Beale	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	72
51	Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey	Unwell	Society & Culture	135	Simplecast	63
52	AstroloTea with Aliza Kelly: Horoscopes and Astrology	Aliza Kelly	Society & Culture	32	N/A	N/A
53	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
54	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	652	Simplecast	53
55	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
56	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
57	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
58	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
59	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
60	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
61	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	804	Libsyn	32
62	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
63	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
64	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
65	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
66	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	255	Audioboom	53
67	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
68	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
69	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
70	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
71	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
72	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
73	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1108	Simplecast	69
74	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
75	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	63
76	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
77	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	677	Megaphone	42
78	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
79	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	36	Podbean	62
80	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	238	ART19	41
81	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
82	Travel with Rick Steves	Rick Steves	Society & Culture	1082	Unknown	38
83	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	599	Megaphone	42
84	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	801	Megaphone	58
85	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
86	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	505	ART19	53
87	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
88	You Wish	Holly Madison	Society & Culture	8	ART19	69
89	Explain It to Me	Vox	Society & Culture	810	Megaphone	59
90	60 Minutes	CBS News	Society & Culture	389	WideOrbit	38
91	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
92	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
93	Big Lives	Pushkin Industries and BBC Studios	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	79
94	No Stupid Questions	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	340	Simplecast	63
95	Barely Famous	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	257	ART19	53
96	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
97	Casual Chaos	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	243	Omny Studio	53
98	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
99	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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