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 23 Mar 2026

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03/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 394

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:54:58

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Audible (3 shows)

3. PodcastOne (3 shows)

4. NPR (3 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (13 shows)

5. Acast (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	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
3	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
4	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
6	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
8	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
11	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1188	Omny Studio	59
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
13	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	42
14	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
17	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
18	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	58
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
21	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
22	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
23	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
24	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
25	Hysteria	Hysteria	Society & Culture	446	Audioboom	38
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
27	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
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	211	Simplecast	32
30	The Psychology of Relationships	Julie Krafchick & Yue Xu	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	63
31	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
32	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	63
33	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
34	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
35	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
36	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
37	Dream Life Club	Sumi Krishnan	Society & Culture	45	Captivate	58
38	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
39	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2826	Acast	43
40	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
41	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
42	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
43	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
44	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
45	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
46	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
47	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
48	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
49	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
50	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
51	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	600	Megaphone	42
52	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
53	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
54	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	42
55	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	653	Simplecast	53
56	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
57	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
58	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
59	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
60	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	63
61	Barely Famous	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	258	ART19	53
62	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
63	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	506	ART19	53
64	Astonishing Legends	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	470	Audioboom	63
65	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
66	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
67	Travel with Rick Steves	Rick Steves	Society & Culture	1083	Unknown	38
68	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
69	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
70	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
71	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	706	Omny Studio	53
72	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
73	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
74	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
75	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
76	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	64
77	No Stupid Questions	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	340	Simplecast	63
78	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	178	ART19	48
79	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	239	ART19	41
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
81	Older Women & Friends: Stories of Aging Well	Jane Leder	Society & Culture	101	Podetize	53
82	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
83	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
84	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
85	Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer	Headgum & Nicole Byer	Society & Culture	469	ART19	68
86	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1109	Simplecast	69
87	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
88	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
89	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	609	Megaphone	59
90	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	58
91	It Turns Out	Kara Miller	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	83
92	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	806	Libsyn	32
93	Attention Lab	School of Radical Attention	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	69
94	Explain It to Me	Vox	Society & Culture	810	Megaphone	59
95	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
96	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
97	The Louis Theroux Podcast	Spotify Studios	Society & Culture	73	Megaphone	48
98	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
99	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	356	Megaphone	58
100	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	34	N/A	N/A

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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