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 08 Jan 2026

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01/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 380

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:54:35

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (3 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

3. PodcastOne (3 shows)

4. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

5. Audible (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	53
2	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
3	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
4	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	66	Spreaker	84
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
9	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1150	Megaphone	58
10	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1209	Libsyn	63
11	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
12	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
15	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
17	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
18	The Riley Gaines Show	Fox	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	53
19	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
20	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
21	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
22	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1184	Omny Studio	59
23	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
24	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
25	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
26	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
27	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1730	Libsyn	53
28	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
29	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2818	Acast	43
30	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
31	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
32	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
33	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
34	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
35	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	676	Megaphone	42
36	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	63
37	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
38	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
39	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
40	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
41	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
42	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
43	Dan Bongino - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	36	Spreaker	59
44	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	276	Omny Studio	83
45	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
46	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
47	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
48	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
49	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
50	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	193	Megaphone	37
51	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
52	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
53	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	47
54	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
55	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
56	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	123	Megaphone	38
57	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
58	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
59	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
60	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
61	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
62	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
63	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
64	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
65	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
66	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	177	ART19	48
67	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
68	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
69	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
70	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	803	Libsyn	32
71	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
72	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
73	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1105	Simplecast	69
74	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	206	Libsyn	68
75	Jillian on Love	Jillian Turecki \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	83
76	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
77	Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts	The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	199	Omny Studio	48
78	Don't Listen To Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	53
79	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1182	ART19	48
80	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
81	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
82	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
83	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
84	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
85	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	117	ART19	58
86	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	285	Libsyn	48
87	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
88	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
89	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
90	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
91	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	704	Libsyn	63
92	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
93	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73
94	ReThinking	TED	Society & Culture	224	Acast	59
95	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
96	Saint2Siren	Saint2Siren	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	63
98	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
99	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
100	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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