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 14 Apr 2026

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04/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 308

Frequency: every 53 days

Duration: 00:53:52

Top 5 authors

1. NPR (3 shows)

2. Audible (3 shows)

3. Dear Media (3 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. ART19 (13 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	404	Megaphone	53
2	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
3	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
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	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
10	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
11	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
12	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
14	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	58
15	Not Dead Yet	Ricochet	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	69
16	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1188	Omny Studio	59
19	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
20	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
21	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
22	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
23	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
24	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
25	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
26	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
27	The Initiation	Sebastian Dienst	Society & Culture	0	Podbean	22
28	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
29	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
30	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
31	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
32	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	58
33	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	63	Substack	43
34	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2825	Acast	43
35	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
36	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
37	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
38	Self Care and Chill With Maui	Amirah Morris	Society & Culture	131	Spotify for Podcasters	42
39	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
40	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
41	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
42	Big Lives	Pushkin Industries and BBC Studios	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	79
43	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
44	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
45	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
46	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
47	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	37
48	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	53
49	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
50	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
51	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
52	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
53	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	60	Audioboom	59
54	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
55	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
56	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
57	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
58	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
59	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
60	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
61	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
62	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
63	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
64	Voices of Freedom	Rick Graber	Society & Culture	44	Libsyn	79
65	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
66	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
67	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
68	The Art of Adventure	Arthur Beale	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	72
69	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	34	N/A	N/A
70	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
71	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
72	12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of The Byzantine Empire	Lars Brownworth	Society & Culture	19	Unknown	38
73	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	709	Libsyn	63
74	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
75	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
76	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
77	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	446	Audioboom	38
78	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
79	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
80	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	563	ART19	48
81	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	256	Audioboom	53
82	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	52
83	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	60 Minutes	CBS News	Society & Culture	389	WideOrbit	38
85	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
86	AstroloTea with Aliza Kelly: Horoscopes and Astrology	Aliza Kelly	Society & Culture	32	N/A	N/A
87	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
88	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
89	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
90	Rich Little Brokegirls	Kimberly Bizu	Society & Culture	98	Buzzsprout	58
91	Reagan Conrad	The Daily Wire	Society & Culture	31	Megaphone	58
92	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	802	Megaphone	58
93	Set & Centered	Mark & RJ	Society & Culture	21	Buzzsprout	63
94	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
95	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
96	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
97	You Wish	Holly Madison	Society & Culture	8	ART19	69
98	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
99	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	42
100	Explain It to Me	Vox	Society & Culture	810	Megaphone	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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