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 juin 2026

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06/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 402

Frequency: every 51 days

Duration: 00:56:40

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Audible (4 shows)

3. PodcastOne (4 shows)

4. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. ART19 (18 shows)

3. Simplecast (17 shows)

4. Omny Studio (13 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	53
3	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
4	Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	66	Spreaker	84
7	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1184	Omny Studio	59
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
9	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
10	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
11	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1209	Libsyn	63
14	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
15	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1150	Megaphone	58
16	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
17	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1730	Libsyn	53
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
19	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
21	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
22	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
23	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	48
24	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
25	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
26	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
27	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
28	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	123	Megaphone	38
29	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
30	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	676	Megaphone	42
31	Humans	Hank Green	Society & Culture	13	ART19	48
32	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	63
33	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
34	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
35	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	48
36	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
37	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	32	Unknown	79
38	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
39	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
40	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
41	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
42	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
43	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
44	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	47
45	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	276	Omny Studio	83
46	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
47	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
48	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
49	Love Activated	Sarrah Rose	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	63
50	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
51	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
52	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2818	Acast	43
53	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
54	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
55	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
56	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	562	ART19	48
57	Hang Out with Sean Hannity	Fox News Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	52
58	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
59	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
60	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
61	The Martin Sheen Podcast \| Storytelling, Human Interest & Conversations	TE Productions and MSW Media	Society & Culture	30	Simplecast	72
62	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	177	ART19	48
63	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
64	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	117	ART19	58
65	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
66	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
67	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
68	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
69	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
70	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	21	Audioboom	63
71	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	704	Libsyn	63
72	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
73	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
74	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	310	ART19	38
75	Say It Anyway with Corey Proffitt-Boyd	New Image Studios	Society & Culture	38	Podbean	42
76	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
77	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
78	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
79	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
80	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	206	Libsyn	68
81	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
82	We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson	WNTT	Society & Culture	170	Megaphone	58
83	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	36	Podbean	62
84	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	803	Libsyn	32
85	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1451	Omny Studio	38
86	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
87	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
88	Whine Down with Jana Kramer	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	960	Omny Studio	32
89	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	193	Megaphone	37
90	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	161	Simplecast	69
91	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
92	The Initiation	Sebastian Dienst	Society & Culture	0	Podbean	22
93	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
94	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
95	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73
96	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
97	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
98	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
99	The Comment Section with Drew Afualo	Drew Afualo	Comedy	231	Megaphone	58
100	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1182	ART19	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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