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 May 2026

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05/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 372

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:56:11

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Audible (4 shows)

3. Dear Media (3 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

5. NPR (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Libsyn (8 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	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
4	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
5	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
8	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	23	Audioboom	63
9	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1188	Omny Studio	59
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
12	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	58
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
15	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
17	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
18	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
19	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
20	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
21	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
22	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
23	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
24	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
25	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
26	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
27	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
28	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
29	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
30	The Initiation	Sebastian Dienst	Society & Culture	0	Podbean	22
31	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	26	Megaphone	79
32	Humans	Hank Green	Society & Culture	13	ART19	48
33	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
34	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
35	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
36	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
37	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
38	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
39	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
40	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
41	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
42	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
43	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
44	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
45	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
46	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
47	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	446	Audioboom	38
48	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
49	Bill and Giuliana: The Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	42
50	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
51	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
52	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
53	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2826	Acast	43
54	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
55	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
56	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
57	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
58	The Jeremy Boreing Show	Boreing Media	Society & Culture	64	Megaphone	48
59	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	42
60	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
61	ITALIAN, FOR SURE \| Conversations with Italians in Italy About Italian Culture	Catrin Skaperdas	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
62	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
63	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
64	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
65	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
66	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
67	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
68	AstroloTea with Aliza Kelly: Horoscopes and Astrology	Aliza Kelly	Society & Culture	32	N/A	N/A
69	The Art of Adventure	Arthur Beale	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	72
70	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
71	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
72	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
73	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
74	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
75	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	58
76	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
77	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
78	Living Boldly with Dr. Zee	Dr. Zenovia Bryant-Bright	Society & Culture	30	Spreaker	69
79	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	414	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Hang Out with Sean Hannity	Fox News Media	Society & Culture	62	Libsyn	52
81	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
82	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
83	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
84	60 Minutes	CBS News	Society & Culture	389	WideOrbit	38
85	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	564	ART19	48
86	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
87	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	37	Podbean	62
88	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
89	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
90	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
91	Family Secrets	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	253	Omny Studio	48
92	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	256	Audioboom	53
93	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	802	Megaphone	58
94	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	600	Megaphone	42
95	The Andrew Klavan Show	The Daily Wire	Society & Culture	1786	Megaphone	38
96	Middlebrow	Dan Rosen & Brian Park	Society & Culture	100	Libsyn	43
97	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
98	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
99	Not Dead Yet	Ricochet	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	69
100	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	709	Libsyn	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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