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 13 Aug 2026

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08/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 402

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:56:58

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (4 shows)

2. The New York Times (3 shows)

3. NPR (3 shows)

4. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

5. Audible (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (18 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	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	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	119	ART19	58
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
6	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
7	The ManFlu \| Exploring Gender Dynamics, Partnerships & Raising Boys Who Care	Lucy McAfee	Society & Culture	12	Acast	79
8	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
10	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1187	Omny Studio	59
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
13	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1153	Megaphone	58
14	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
17	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
18	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
19	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
20	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
21	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
23	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	852	Megaphone	69
24	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
25	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
26	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
27	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
28	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
29	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
30	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
31	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
32	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
33	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
34	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
35	The Katie Miller Podcast	Katie Miller	Society & Culture	53	Spotify for Podcasters	37
36	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2824	Acast	43
37	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
38	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
39	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
40	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
41	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
42	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
43	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
44	Open Book with Jenna	TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager	Society & Culture	118	Simplecast	68
45	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
46	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
47	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	469	ART19	38
48	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
49	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	48
50	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
51	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
52	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
53	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	600	Megaphone	42
54	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
55	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	37
56	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
57	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
58	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
59	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
60	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
61	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
62	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	118	ART19	58
63	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
64	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
65	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
66	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
67	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
68	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	709	Libsyn	63
69	In Bed With The Right	Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan	Society & Culture	129	RSS.com	62
70	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
71	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
72	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
73	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
74	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
75	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
76	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	164	Simplecast	69
77	独树不成林 Details temporarily unavailable	鬼鬼祟祟的树	Society & Culture	379	Unknown	43
78	Hang Out with Sean Hannity	Fox News Media	Society & Culture	62	Libsyn	52
79	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1460	Omny Studio	38
80	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
81	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	53
82	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
83	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	563	ART19	48
84	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
85	Our Town	Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
86	Simply Relational	Darran Crager and Dr. Shelly Crager	Society & Culture	14	Podetize	69
87	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	621	Audioboom	73
88	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
89	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	22	Audioboom	63
90	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
91	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
92	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	802	Megaphone	58
93	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
94	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
95	The Jeremy Boreing Show	Boreing Media	Society & Culture	64	Megaphone	48
96	Love Factually	Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel	Society & Culture	75	Libsyn	48
97	Going Public With Ross Mandell	Ross Mandell	Society & Culture	181	Simplecast	58
98	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
99	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
100	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	414	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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