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 Aug 2026

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08/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 422

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:55:52

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Audible (3 shows)

3. PodcastOne (3 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

5. NPR (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
3	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
4	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	119	ART19	58
6	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
7	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
8	Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
10	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1153	Megaphone	58
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	The ManFlu \| Exploring Gender Dynamics, Partnerships & Raising Boys Who Care	Lucy McAfee	Society & Culture	12	Acast	79
13	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1187	Omny Studio	59
14	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
15	Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel	Rachel Uchitel	Society & Culture	384	Simplecast	58
16	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
17	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
18	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
19	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
20	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
21	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	852	Megaphone	69
22	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
23	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
24	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
25	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
26	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
27	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
28	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
29	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
30	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
31	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
32	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
33	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
34	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2824	Acast	43
35	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
36	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
37	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
38	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
39	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
40	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
41	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
42	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
43	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
44	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
45	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
46	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
47	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	802	Megaphone	58
48	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
49	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
50	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	563	ART19	48
51	Open Book with Jenna	TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager	Society & Culture	118	Simplecast	68
52	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
53	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
54	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
55	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
56	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
57	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
58	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
59	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
60	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
61	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
62	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
63	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	53
64	Whine Down with Jana Kramer	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	966	Omny Studio	32
65	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	22	Audioboom	63
66	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
67	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
68	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
69	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
70	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	600	Megaphone	42
71	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	312	ART19	38
72	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	255	Audioboom	53
73	The Katie Miller Podcast	Katie Miller	Society & Culture	53	Spotify for Podcasters	37
74	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
75	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
76	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	709	Libsyn	63
77	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
78	The Andrew Klavan Show	The Daily Wire	Society & Culture	1785	Megaphone	38
79	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1460	Omny Studio	38
80	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	239	ART19	41
81	Greta Wire	Newsmax Podcasts	Society & Culture	60	Megaphone	59
82	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
83	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	37
84	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
85	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
86	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	621	Audioboom	73
87	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
88	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	122	Megaphone	52
89	American Hysteria	chelsey weber-smith	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	83
90	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
91	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
92	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
93	Our Town	Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
94	Lemme Say This	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	96	ART19	69
95	Going Public With Ross Mandell	Ross Mandell	Society & Culture	181	Simplecast	58
96	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
97	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
98	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
99	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
100	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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