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 11 Feb 2026

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02/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 355

Frequency: every 52 days

Duration: 00:56:27

Top 5 authors

1. NPR (3 shows)

2. Audible (3 shows)

3. PodcastOne (3 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	53
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
3	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
4	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
5	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
10	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
12	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
13	For Good	Joseph "JoJo" Simmons	Society & Culture	39	Libsyn	69
14	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
16	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
17	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
18	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
19	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
20	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
21	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
22	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
23	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
24	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	58
25	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1211	Libsyn	63
26	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
29	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2821	Acast	43
30	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
31	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
32	Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff	Money News Network	Society & Culture	406	Megaphone	38
33	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
34	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
35	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
36	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
37	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1731	Libsyn	53
38	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
40	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
41	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
42	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
43	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
44	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
45	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
46	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
47	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
48	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
49	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
50	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	804	Libsyn	32
51	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
52	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	677	Megaphone	42
53	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
54	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
55	The Psychology of Relationships	Julie Krafchick & Yue Xu	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	63
56	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
57	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
58	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
59	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
60	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
61	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
62	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
63	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
64	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
65	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
66	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
67	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
68	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	445	Audioboom	38
69	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
70	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
71	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
72	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	706	Libsyn	63
73	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
74	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1107	Simplecast	69
75	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
76	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	801	Megaphone	58
77	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
78	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	36	Podbean	62
79	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
80	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
81	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
83	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	255	Audioboom	53
84	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
85	Best Case Scenarios	Kevin Kelly and Dan Pink	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	63
86	DEE:UNLEASHED	Dominica Dunkwu	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	53
87	La Brega: Campeones	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	47	Acast	79
88	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	505	ART19	53
89	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
90	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
91	Not Loveline	Tana Mongeau and Trish Paytas	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	38
92	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	238	ART19	41
93	The Brett Cooper Show	Brett Cooper	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	68
94	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
95	It Turns Out	Kara Miller	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	83
96	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1451	Omny Studio	38
97	Barely Famous	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	257	ART19	53
98	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
99	Within Reason	Alex J O'Connor	Society & Culture	162	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Astonishing Legends	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	470	Audioboom	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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