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 26 Feb 2026

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02/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 360

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:57:23

Top 5 authors

1. PodcastOne (4 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. Audible (3 shows)

5. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (14 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	53
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
6	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
9	Wait a Second... Feed not publicly shared by the creator	The Ringer	Society & Culture	33	N/A	N/A
10	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
13	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
14	Furious Thoughts	CAKE MEDIA	Society & Culture	5	Megaphone	53
15	Voices of Freedom	Rick Graber	Society & Culture	44	Libsyn	79
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
17	Stay Tranquilo	Stay Tranquilo Network	Society & Culture	172	Simplecast	48
18	The Watch Floor with Sarah Adams	Sarah Adams	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
19	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
20	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
21	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1209	Libsyn	63
22	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
24	Clock It with Symone & Eugene	MSNBC	News	25	Simplecast	53
25	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
26	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
27	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
28	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	32
29	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1730	Libsyn	53
30	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1151	Megaphone	58
31	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	505	Libsyn	52
32	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
33	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
34	Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff	Money News Network	Society & Culture	406	Megaphone	38
35	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
36	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
37	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	47
38	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
39	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	32	Unknown	79
40	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
41	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2820	Acast	43
42	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	676	Megaphone	42
43	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	65	ART19	63
44	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
45	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
46	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	63
47	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
48	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
49	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
50	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
51	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
52	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
53	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
54	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
55	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
56	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
57	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
58	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
59	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	598	Megaphone	42
60	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
61	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
62	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	651	Simplecast	53
63	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	207	Libsyn	68
64	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
65	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	193	N/A	N/A
66	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	276	Omny Studio	83
67	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
68	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
69	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
70	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
71	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	177	ART19	48
72	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
73	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
74	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
75	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
76	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
77	Unpacked by Afar \| Travel Smarter, More Responsibly	Afar	Society & Culture	198	Megaphone	58
78	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
79	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
80	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
81	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	117	ART19	58
82	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
83	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
84	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
85	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
86	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
87	It Turns Out	Kara Miller	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	83
88	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	704	Libsyn	63
89	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	140	Simplecast	62
90	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	803	Libsyn	32
91	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
92	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
93	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
94	The Wild Chaos Podcast	Wild Chaos	Society & Culture	111	Buzzsprout	73
95	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	193	Megaphone	37
96	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
97	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
98	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
99	The Woody Show	iHeartRadio and ALT 98.7 FM	Society & Culture	1451	Omny Studio	38
100	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1182	ART19	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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