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 Aug 2026

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08/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 369

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:53:58

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (4 shows)

2. NPR (4 shows)

3. Dear Media (4 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	398	Megaphone	53
2	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	512	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	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	100	ART19	58
6	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
8	The ManFlu \| Exploring Gender Dynamics, Partnerships & Raising Boys Who Care	Lucy McAfee	Society & Culture	9	Acast	69
9	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	503	Libsyn	52
10	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	64	Megaphone	42
11	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1146	Megaphone	58
12	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	102	ART19	68
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1179	Omny Studio	59
15	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
16	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	428	Megaphone	63
17	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	79	Simplecast	47
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
20	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
21	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
22	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
23	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	122	Megaphone	38
24	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	846	Megaphone	69
25	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	48
26	Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	212	Omny Studio	63
27	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1203	Libsyn	63
28	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
29	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
30	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
31	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
32	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	40	Omny Studio	48
33	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2167	Acast	43
34	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
35	Open Book with Jenna	TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager	Society & Culture	115	Simplecast	68
36	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
37	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
38	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	176	ART19	48
39	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	396	Megaphone	48
40	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
41	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	152	Simplecast	73
42	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
43	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	208	Simplecast	32
44	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	205	Libsyn	68
45	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	799	Libsyn	32
46	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	289	ART19	83
47	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
48	Love Factually	Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel	Society & Culture	73	Libsyn	48
49	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
50	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	442	Audioboom	38
51	独树不成林 Details temporarily unavailable	鬼鬼祟祟的树	Society & Culture	379	Unknown	43
52	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	561	ART19	48
53	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	150	ART19	52
54	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
55	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	274	Omny Studio	83
56	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
57	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1721	Libsyn	53
58	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	351	Megaphone	58
59	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	62
60	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	638	Megaphone	48
61	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	68
62	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	798	Megaphone	58
63	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
64	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
65	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	42
66	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
67	1440 Explores	1440 Media	Society & Culture	16	Acast	64
68	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	63	ART19	63
69	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
70	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1099	Simplecast	69
71	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	466	ART19	38
72	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
73	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
74	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
75	The Initiation	Sebastian Dienst	Society & Culture	0	Podbean	22
76	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	131	Simplecast	58
77	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
78	The Andrew Klavan Show	The Daily Wire	Society & Culture	1775	Megaphone	38
79	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	670	Megaphone	42
80	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
81	No One Is Normal	Brad H. Hill	Society & Culture	42	Spotify for Podcasters	68
82	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	253	Audioboom	53
83	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
84	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	540	Unknown	38
85	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	696	Libsyn	63
86	Our Town	Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
87	No Stupid Questions	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	338	Simplecast	63
88	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	171	Simplecast	48
89	Going Public With Ross Mandell	Ross Mandell	Society & Culture	176	Simplecast	58
90	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
91	Simply Relational	Darran Crager and Dr. Shelly Crager	Society & Culture	11	Podetize	59
92	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	69
93	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
94	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	236	ART19	41
95	Travel with Rick Steves	Rick Steves	Society & Culture	1080	Unknown	38
96	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	803	Megaphone	64
97	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	23	Megaphone	79
98	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	118	Megaphone	52
99	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
100	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	647	Simplecast	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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