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 Sep 2025

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09/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 432

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:58:21

Top 5 authors

1. The New York Times (4 shows)

2. Audible (3 shows)

3. Dear Media (3 shows)

4. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (17 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Acast (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	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
3	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
4	Alive with Steve Burns	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	79
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
8	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
9	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
10	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1188	Omny Studio	59
11	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
12	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
13	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
15	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
16	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
19	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	58
20	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
21	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
22	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
23	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
24	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
25	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
26	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
27	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
28	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
29	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	564	ART19	48
30	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
31	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
32	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
33	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
34	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
35	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
36	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
37	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
38	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
39	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2826	Acast	43
40	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
41	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
42	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
43	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	600	Megaphone	42
44	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
45	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
46	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	239	ART19	41
47	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
48	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
49	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	164	Simplecast	69
50	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
51	Outcast Podcast	Podcast Playground	Society & Culture	180	Unknown	48
52	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
53	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	42
54	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
55	Migrant Odyssey	stephen barden	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	38
56	BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley	Sydney Leroux, Ali Riley	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	58
57	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	256	Audioboom	53
58	Dirty Rush: The Truth about Sorority Life	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	53
59	The Culture War Podcast with Tim Pool	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	293	Libsyn	32
60	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
61	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1461	Omny Studio	38
62	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
63	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
64	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
65	Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer	Headgum & Nicole Byer	Society & Culture	469	ART19	68
66	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	446	Audioboom	38
67	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
68	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	621	Audioboom	73
69	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
70	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
71	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
72	Horses	7EQUIS	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	49
73	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	64	Simplecast	58
74	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
75	Who? Weekly	Who? Weekly	News	1058	WideOrbit	53
76	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	414	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
78	Scheananigans with Scheana Shay	Dear Media	Society & Culture	435	ART19	63
79	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
80	Travel with Rick Steves	Rick Steves	Society & Culture	1083	Unknown	38
81	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
82	Jam Session	The Ringer	Society & Culture	876	Megaphone	53
83	Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	55	Simplecast	63
84	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
85	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	609	Megaphone	59
86	The Dream	Little Everywhere	Society & Culture	96	Acast	53
87	The Brett Cooper Show	Brett Cooper	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	68
88	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	244	Simplecast	63
89	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
90	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
91	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
92	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
93	The Dr. Phil Podcast	Dr. Phil McGraw	Society & Culture	578	Megaphone	74
94	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	637	Acast	38
95	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
96	The Officer Tatum Show	Brandon Tatum	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
97	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
98	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	63
99	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	233	Spreaker	78
100	Call Your Sister with Joy & Jinger	Jinger Vuolo, Joy Forsyth	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	38

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