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 16 Jan 2026

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01/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 422

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:57:09

Top 5 authors

1. PodcastOne (5 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. Dear Media (4 shows)

5. Audible (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. ART19 (17 shows)

4. Omny Studio (13 shows)

5. Acast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	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	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
5	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
7	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
10	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1211	Libsyn	63
11	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1731	Libsyn	53
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
14	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
15	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
17	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
18	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
19	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
20	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
21	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
22	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
23	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
24	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
25	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
26	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
27	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
28	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	505	ART19	53
29	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
30	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
31	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
32	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	677	Megaphone	42
33	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
34	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
35	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
36	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
37	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
38	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
39	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
40	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
41	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
42	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
43	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
44	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
45	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
46	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
47	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
48	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
49	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
50	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2821	Acast	43
51	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	161	Simplecast	69
52	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
53	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
54	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
55	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
56	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
57	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	445	Audioboom	38
58	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
59	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
60	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
61	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
62	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
63	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1451	Omny Studio	38
64	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
65	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
66	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	193	N/A	N/A
67	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
68	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73
69	小天章	小天章	Society & Culture	2	Unknown	43
70	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
71	Keep It!	Keep It!	Society & Culture	447	Audioboom	38
72	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
73	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
74	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
75	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
76	Family Secrets	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	253	Omny Studio	48
77	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
78	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
79	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
80	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
81	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
82	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
83	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	117	ART19	58
84	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
85	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
86	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
87	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
88	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
89	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
90	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	232	Spreaker	78
91	Whine Down with Jana Kramer	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	962	Omny Studio	32
92	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
93	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	193	Megaphone	37
94	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1107	Simplecast	69
95	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	310	ART19	38
96	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
97	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	706	Libsyn	63
98	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
99	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
100	Astonishing Legends	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	470	Audioboom	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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