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 May 2026

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05/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 392

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:55:33

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. NPR (3 shows)

4. Dear Media (3 shows)

5. PodcastOne (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Acast (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	405	Megaphone	53
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	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	303	Simplecast	63
6	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	23	Audioboom	63
7	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1189	Omny Studio	59
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
10	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	63
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
12	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1155	Megaphone	58
13	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	507	Libsyn	52
14	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
15	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	134	WideOrbit	48
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	56	ART19	63
18	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1216	Libsyn	63
19	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
20	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	85	Simplecast	47
21	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
22	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
23	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
24	NO SUCH THING	MannyNoahDevan	Society & Culture	68	Acast	79
25	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
26	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	147	ART19	73
27	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
28	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	154	ART19	52
29	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
30	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
31	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
32	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	208	Libsyn	68
33	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	48
34	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	263	WideOrbit	48
35	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
36	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	80	Buzzsprout	38
37	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	179	ART19	48
38	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
39	Hang Out with Sean Hannity	Fox News Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	52
40	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
41	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
42	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
43	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	110	ART19	68
44	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	278	Omny Studio	83
45	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	807	Libsyn	32
46	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
47	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
48	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1738	Libsyn	53
49	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
50	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
51	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2828	Acast	43
52	ITALIAN, FOR SURE \| Conversations with Italians in Italy About Italian Culture	Catrin Skaperdas	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
53	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
54	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	358	Megaphone	58
55	The Initiation	Sebastian Dienst	Society & Culture	0	Podbean	22
56	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	89	Megaphone	63
57	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
58	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
59	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	200	Simplecast	62
60	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	645	Megaphone	48
61	Not Dead Yet	Ricochet	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	69
62	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
63	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
64	Voices of Freedom	Rick Graber	Society & Culture	44	Libsyn	79
65	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	681	Megaphone	42
66	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
67	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
68	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	654	Simplecast	53
69	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
70	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	810	Megaphone	64
71	60 Minutes	CBS News	Society & Culture	389	WideOrbit	38
72	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	256	Audioboom	53
73	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1113	Simplecast	69
74	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
75	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
76	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
77	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	67	ART19	63
78	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
79	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	313	ART19	38
80	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	466	ART19	73
81	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
82	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
83	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	803	Megaphone	58
84	Astonishing Legends	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	470	Audioboom	63
85	Memento Morbid	Memento Morbid	Society & Culture	18	Audioboom	68
86	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
87	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	130	Simplecast	68
88	Family Secrets	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	253	Omny Studio	48
89	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	58
90	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	239	ART19	41
91	ReThinking	TED	Society & Culture	224	Acast	59
92	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	142	Simplecast	62
93	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
94	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
95	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	601	Megaphone	42
96	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	564	ART19	48
97	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	414	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1461	Omny Studio	38
99	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	34	Unknown	79
100	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	434	Acast	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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