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 18 Mar 2026

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03/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 371

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:56:28

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Dear Media (4 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (3 shows)

5. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	405	Megaphone	53
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	303	Simplecast	63
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
6	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
7	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
8	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
9	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	110	ART19	68
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
11	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1189	Omny Studio	59
12	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1216	Libsyn	63
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
15	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
16	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	48
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	63
19	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
20	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	507	Libsyn	52
21	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
22	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1155	Megaphone	58
23	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	681	Megaphone	42
24	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	85	Simplecast	47
25	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	200	Simplecast	62
26	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
27	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1738	Libsyn	53
28	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
29	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
30	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	645	Megaphone	48
31	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
32	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
33	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
34	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	547	Unknown	38
35	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2828	Acast	43
36	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	56	ART19	63
37	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	147	ART19	73
38	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
40	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
41	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
42	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	64	Simplecast	58
43	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
44	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
45	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	80	Buzzsprout	38
46	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	601	Megaphone	42
47	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
48	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
49	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
50	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
51	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	134	WideOrbit	48
52	Attention Lab	School of Radical Attention	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	69
53	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	179	ART19	48
54	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	208	Libsyn	68
55	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	263	WideOrbit	48
56	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	52
57	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	119	ART19	58
58	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
59	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
60	One 54 Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	79
61	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
62	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	807	Libsyn	32
63	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	278	Omny Studio	83
64	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	89	Megaphone	63
65	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
66	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	154	ART19	52
67	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
68	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
69	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	256	Audioboom	53
70	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	810	Megaphone	64
71	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
72	NO SUCH THING	MannyNoahDevan	Society & Culture	68	Acast	79
73	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	803	Megaphone	58
74	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
75	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	569	Acast	49
76	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
77	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1113	Simplecast	69
78	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
79	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	358	Megaphone	58
80	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
81	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
82	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
83	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	446	Audioboom	38
84	It Turns Out	Kara Miller	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	83
85	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	67	ART19	63
86	Humanism Now	Humanise Live	Society & Culture	99	Megaphone	89
87	Tell Me Your Ghost Story	Kassie Askin	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	58
88	Nerding out on Neurodiversity	Dr. Matt Zakreski	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	63
89	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
90	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
91	The Louis Theroux Podcast	Spotify Studios	Society & Culture	73	Megaphone	48
92	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	713	Libsyn	63
93	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
94	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
95	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
96	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	622	Audioboom	73
97	The Psychology of Relationships	Julie Krafchick & Yue Xu	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	63
98	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
99	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1461	Omny Studio	38
100	Barely Famous	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	258	ART19	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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