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 Apr 2026

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04/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 372

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:55:01

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Dear Media (3 shows)

3. Audible Original (3 shows)

4. PodcastOne (3 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Acast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	414	Megaphone	53
2	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
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	306	Simplecast	63
5	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
6	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
7	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
8	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	117	ART19	68
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
10	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	117	Megaphone	48
11	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1198	Omny Studio	59
14	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1231	Libsyn	63
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
17	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	410	Megaphone	48
18	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	63
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
21	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
22	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	157	ART19	52
23	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1165	Megaphone	58
24	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	510	Libsyn	52
25	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
26	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	136	WideOrbit	48
27	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	37	N/A	N/A
28	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
29	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1754	Libsyn	53
30	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	69	Megaphone	42
31	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	159	Megaphone	53
32	Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey	Unwell	Society & Culture	139	Simplecast	63
33	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	160	Simplecast	73
34	Scamfluencers	Audible Original	Society & Culture	152	ART19	73
35	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	652	Megaphone	48
36	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	60	ART19	63
37	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
38	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	215	Simplecast	32
39	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	128	Megaphone	38
40	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	90	Simplecast	47
41	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	554	Unknown	38
42	Against The Odds	Audible Original	Society & Culture	296	ART19	83
43	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	281	Omny Studio	83
44	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
45	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	62
46	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	690	Megaphone	42
47	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
48	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2845	Acast	43
49	AstroloTea with Aliza Kelly: Horoscopes and Astrology	Aliza Kelly	Society & Culture	32	N/A	N/A
50	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	606	Megaphone	42
51	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
52	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	182	ART19	48
53	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	37	Unknown	79
54	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	452	Audioboom	38
55	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
56	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
57	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	122	ART19	58
58	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	81	Buzzsprout	38
59	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
60	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
61	The Art of Adventure	Arthur Beale	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	72
62	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
63	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
64	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	815	Libsyn	32
65	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	817	Megaphone	64
66	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
67	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	211	Libsyn	68
68	Casual Chaos	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	243	Omny Studio	53
69	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
70	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1125	Simplecast	69
71	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	42	Simplecast	52
72	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
73	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	70	ART19	63
74	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	661	Simplecast	53
75	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	41	Podbean	62
76	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
77	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	364	Megaphone	58
78	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	63
79	Everything Happens with Kate Bowler	Everything Happens Studios	Society & Culture	299	Omny Studio	79
80	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	253	Megaphone	38
81	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	468	ART19	73
82	Big Lives	Pushkin Industries and BBC Studios	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	79
83	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
84	The Initiation	Sebastian Dienst	Society & Culture	0	Podbean	22
85	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	58
86	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
87	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
89	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
90	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
91	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	42
92	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	572	Acast	49
93	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
94	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	510	ART19	53
95	It's Me, Tinx	Tinx	Society & Culture	718	Simplecast	63
96	Migrant Odyssey	stephen barden	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	38
97	Who? Weekly	Who? Weekly	News	1066	WideOrbit	53
98	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	Society & Culture	204	Audioboom	48
99	You Wish	Holly Madison	Society & Culture	8	ART19	69
100	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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