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 19 Mar 2026

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03/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 369

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:56:23

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Dear Media (3 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

4. Audible (3 shows)

5. The New York Times (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (18 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
3	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
4	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
7	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
8	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1187	Omny Studio	59
12	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
14	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
15	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
18	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
19	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
20	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1153	Megaphone	58
21	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
22	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
23	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
24	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
25	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
26	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
27	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
28	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
29	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
30	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
31	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
32	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
33	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
34	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
35	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
36	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2824	Acast	43
37	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
38	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
39	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
40	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
41	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
42	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
43	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
44	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
45	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	600	Megaphone	42
46	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
47	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
48	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
49	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
50	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
51	Tell Me Your Ghost Story	Kassie Askin	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	58
52	The Royalist	The Daily Beast	Society & Culture	2	N/A	N/A
53	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
54	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
55	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
56	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	64	Simplecast	58
57	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	53
58	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
59	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
60	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
61	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
62	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
63	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
64	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
65	Attention Lab	School of Radical Attention	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	69
66	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
67	One 54 Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	79
68	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
69	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
70	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
71	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
72	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	118	ART19	58
73	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
74	Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin	TODAY	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	52
75	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
76	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	469	ART19	38
77	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
78	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
79	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
80	The Psychology of Relationships	Julie Krafchick & Yue Xu	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	63
81	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
82	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
83	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
84	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
85	Humanism Now	Humanise Live	Society & Culture	98	Megaphone	89
86	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
87	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
88	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
89	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	609	Megaphone	59
90	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
91	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
92	Keep It!	Keep It!	Society & Culture	447	Audioboom	38
93	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	709	Libsyn	63
94	It Turns Out	Kara Miller	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	83
95	The Louis Theroux Podcast	Spotify Studios	Society & Culture	73	Megaphone	48
96	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
97	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	581	ART19	58
98	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1460	Omny Studio	38
99	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	621	Audioboom	73
100	The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories	Danielle Mercy	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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