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 21 Mar 2026

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03/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 368

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:56:38

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

3. Audible (3 shows)

4. Dear Media (3 shows)

5. PodcastOne (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
3	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
4	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
5	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
6	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
8	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
9	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
10	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1187	Omny Studio	59
11	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
12	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
14	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
15	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
16	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
17	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1734	Libsyn	53
21	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
22	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1153	Megaphone	58
23	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
24	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
27	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	197	Simplecast	62
28	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
29	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
30	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
31	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
32	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
33	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
34	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
35	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	446	Audioboom	38
36	The Psychology of Relationships	Julie Krafchick & Yue Xu	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	63
37	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
38	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	678	Megaphone	42
39	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
40	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
41	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
42	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
43	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
44	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
46	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
47	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
48	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2823	Acast	43
49	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
50	Barely Famous	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	257	ART19	53
51	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
52	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
53	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
54	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
55	The Royalist	The Daily Beast	Society & Culture	2	N/A	N/A
56	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
57	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
58	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
59	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
60	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
61	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
62	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
63	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
64	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	808	Megaphone	64
65	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
66	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
67	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
68	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
69	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
70	Older Women & Friends: Stories of Aging Well	Jane Leder	Society & Culture	101	Podetize	53
71	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	239	ART19	41
72	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
73	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	599	Megaphone	42
74	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	34	N/A	N/A
75	Love This Way!	Shaleea Venney	Society & Culture	152	Buzzsprout	58
76	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	805	Libsyn	32
77	Humanism Now	Humanise Live	Society & Culture	98	Megaphone	89
78	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
79	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	709	Libsyn	63
80	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
81	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
82	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	609	Megaphone	59
83	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
84	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
85	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
86	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
87	Tell Me Your Ghost Story	Kassie Askin	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	58
88	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	58
89	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1458	Omny Studio	38
90	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
91	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
92	Attention Lab	School of Radical Attention	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	69
93	Furious Thoughts	CAKE MEDIA	Society & Culture	5	Megaphone	53
94	One World in a New World - Apocalyptic Chats	Zen Benefiel, MA, MBA, DDiv - Host/Producer & Founder, Planetary Citizens	Society & Culture	260	Spotify for Podcasters	32
95	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
96	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	621	Audioboom	73
97	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
98	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
99	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
100	You Wish	Holly Madison	Society & Culture	8	ART19	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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