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 09 Jul 2026

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07/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 425

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:57:05

Top 5 authors

1. PodcastOne (5 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. Audible (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. NPR (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. ART19 (18 shows)

3. Simplecast (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	53
2	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
5	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
6	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
11	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
12	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1209	Libsyn	63
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
14	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1151	Megaphone	58
15	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
17	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
18	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
20	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1730	Libsyn	53
21	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
22	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
24	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
25	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
26	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	48
27	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
28	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
29	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	48
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
32	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
33	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
34	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
35	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
36	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
37	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
38	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
39	Greta Wire	Newsmax Podcasts	Society & Culture	58	Megaphone	59
40	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
42	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
43	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2820	Acast	43
44	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
45	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	676	Megaphone	42
46	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	47
47	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
48	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
49	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
50	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
51	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	32	Unknown	79
52	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
53	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	177	ART19	48
54	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
55	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	276	Omny Studio	83
56	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
57	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	704	Libsyn	63
58	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1105	Simplecast	69
59	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
60	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
61	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
62	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	310	ART19	38
63	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	63
64	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
65	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	22	Audioboom	63
66	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
67	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	803	Libsyn	32
68	Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	78
69	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
70	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	117	ART19	58
71	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	563	ART19	48
72	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
73	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	193	Megaphone	37
74	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
75	Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan Show	Society & Culture	80	N/A	N/A
76	Say It Anyway with Corey Proffitt-Boyd	New Image Studios	Society & Culture	38	Podbean	42
77	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	25	Megaphone	79
78	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	413	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
80	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	36	Podbean	62
81	Love Activated	Sarrah Rose	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	63
82	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
83	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
84	Keep It!	Keep It!	Society & Culture	447	Audioboom	38
85	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
86	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
87	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
88	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73
89	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1451	Omny Studio	38
90	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
91	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1182	ART19	48
92	The Atlas Obscura Podcast	SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura	Society & Culture	1439	Simplecast	47
93	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	285	Libsyn	48
94	eLIESabeth	CC Suarez & Sherrilyn Dale	Society & Culture	13	ART19	73
95	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
96	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
97	Lemme Say This	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	96	ART19	69
98	The Comment Section with Drew Afualo	Drew Afualo	Comedy	231	Megaphone	58
99	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
100	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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