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 12 Mar 2026

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03/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 361

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:56:14

Top 5 authors

1. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. PodcastOne (3 shows)

4. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

5. Audible (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (20 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	53
3	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
4	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
9	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	52
10	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
11	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
15	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
17	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
18	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
19	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
20	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
22	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1211	Libsyn	63
23	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	677	Megaphone	42
24	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
25	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
26	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
27	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
28	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
29	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
30	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1731	Libsyn	53
31	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
32	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
33	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
34	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
35	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
36	Attention Lab	School of Radical Attention	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	69
37	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
38	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
39	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
40	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
41	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
42	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2821	Acast	43
43	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
44	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
45	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
46	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
47	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
48	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
49	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
50	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
51	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
52	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
53	Nerding out on Neurodiversity	Dr. Matt Zakreski	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	63
54	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
55	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
56	Penitencia	Sonoro \| Alex Reider, Saskia Niño de Rivera, Sebastian Arrechedera	Society & Culture	360	Simplecast	53
57	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
58	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
59	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
60	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
61	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
62	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	63
63	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
64	DEE:UNLEASHED	Dominica Dunkwu	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	53
65	Furious Thoughts	CAKE MEDIA	Society & Culture	5	Megaphone	53
66	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	33	N/A	N/A
67	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
68	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
69	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	117	ART19	58
70	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
71	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
72	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
73	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
74	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	445	Audioboom	38
75	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
76	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
77	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
78	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
79	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
80	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
81	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
82	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
83	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
84	It Turns Out	Kara Miller	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	83
85	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
86	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	706	Libsyn	63
87	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1107	Simplecast	69
88	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	140	Simplecast	62
89	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
90	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
91	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
92	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	804	Libsyn	32
93	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
94	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
95	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	161	Simplecast	69
96	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
97	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	193	N/A	N/A
98	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
99	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
100	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1451	Omny Studio	38

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