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 Jul 2026

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07/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 423

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:55:03

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (4 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. Audible (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

5. PodcastOne (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Unknown (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	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 Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
6	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
7	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
8	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1211	Libsyn	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
10	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
12	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
13	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
14	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
15	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
18	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
20	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
21	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
22	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
23	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
24	Greta Wire	Newsmax Podcasts	Society & Culture	58	Megaphone	59
25	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
26	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
27	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	48
28	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
29	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
31	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	48
32	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	677	Megaphone	42
33	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
34	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
35	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
36	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
37	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
38	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
39	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
40	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
41	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
42	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
43	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
44	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
45	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
46	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
47	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
48	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2821	Acast	43
49	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
50	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
51	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
52	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
53	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
54	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
55	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
56	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	117	ART19	58
57	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	804	Libsyn	32
58	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1731	Libsyn	53
59	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	706	Libsyn	63
60	Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	78
61	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
62	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	563	ART19	48
63	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
64	Say It Anyway with Corey Proffitt-Boyd	New Image Studios	Society & Culture	38	Podbean	42
65	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1107	Simplecast	69
66	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
67	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
68	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
69	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	310	ART19	38
70	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
71	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
72	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
73	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
74	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
75	The Atlas Obscura Podcast	SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura	Society & Culture	1440	Simplecast	47
76	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
77	Love Activated	Sarrah Rose	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	63
78	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	413	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73
80	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	36	Podbean	62
81	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
82	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
83	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
84	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
85	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
86	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
87	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
88	Rattled & Shook	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	163	Megaphone	63
89	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
90	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
91	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	801	Megaphone	58
92	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
93	Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan Show	Society & Culture	80	N/A	N/A
94	Travel with Rick Steves	Rick Steves	Society & Culture	1082	Unknown	38
95	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1182	ART19	48
96	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
97	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
98	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	52
99	Not Loveline	Tana Mongeau and Trish Paytas	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	38
100	Family Secrets	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	253	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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