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 29 Aug 2025

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08/29/2025

Average data

Episodes: 304

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:52:35

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (5 shows)

2. The New York Times (4 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Barstool Sports (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (18 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	404	Megaphone	53
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	402	Megaphone	48
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
8	Traditional Talk	Traditional Podcast	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	38
9	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	66	ART19	63
10	You, Me & Mike	Thirteen Media	Society & Culture	51	Buzzsprout	83
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
13	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
14	What the F*#! Do We Do Now?!	Sumi and Ryan	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	48
15	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	83	Simplecast	47
16	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	63
17	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	58
18	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
19	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1214	Libsyn	63
20	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1188	Omny Studio	59
21	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2826	Acast	43
22	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
23	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	109	ART19	68
24	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
25	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	198	Simplecast	62
26	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
27	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
28	Migrant Odyssey	stephen barden	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	38
29	The Katie Miller Podcast	Katie Miller	Society & Culture	53	Spotify for Podcasters	37
30	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	644	Megaphone	48
31	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	64	Simplecast	58
32	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
33	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
34	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
35	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
37	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1735	Libsyn	53
38	The Lila Rose Show	Lila Rose	Society & Culture	414	Spotify for Podcasters	28
39	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
41	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	506	Libsyn	52
42	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
43	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
44	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
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	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
47	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
48	BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley	Sydney Leroux, Ali Riley	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	58
49	NO SUCH THING	MannyNoahDevan	Society & Culture	68	Acast	79
50	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
51	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
52	Don't Think with Carla Bezanson	Dear Media	Society & Culture	54	ART19	42
53	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	73
54	Liberty Lost	Audible	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
55	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	58
56	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
57	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	125	Megaphone	38
58	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
59	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	211	Simplecast	32
60	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
61	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
62	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
63	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
64	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
65	For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast	Jen Hatmaker	Society & Culture	628	WideOrbit	42
66	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
67	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	546	Unknown	38
68	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	679	Megaphone	42
69	Outcast Podcast	Podcast Playground	Society & Culture	180	Unknown	48
70	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
71	Charlie's Place	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	6	Omny Studio	69
72	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
73	Unlocking Us with Brené Brown	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	134	Megaphone	53
74	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	146	ART19	73
75	The Chisme Corner with Vee Rivera	Sonoro	Society & Culture	36	Simplecast	62
76	The Resolution Room	Lowe Insights Consulting	Society & Culture	39	Buzzsprout	84
77	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
78	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
79	Future Perfect	Vox	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	59
80	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	286	Libsyn	48
81	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	164	Simplecast	69
82	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Society & Culture	578	Megaphone	43
83	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	52
84	Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	55	Simplecast	63
85	Call Your Sister with Joy & Jinger	Jinger Vuolo, Joy Forsyth	Society & Culture	115	Megaphone	38
86	The Zarna Garg Family Podcast	Zarna Garg	Society & Culture	152	Megaphone	32
87	How Is This Better?	COURIER	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	69
88	What's the Reality?	And Love Media	Society & Culture	86	Simplecast	73
89	Spot On with Link Lauren	MK Media	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
90	Morrow Marriage \| Disrupting Divorce	Cass & Kathryn Morrow	Society & Culture	487	Buzzsprout	68
91	Certified Oversharer	Samantha Busch	Society & Culture	46	Libsyn	69
92	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
93	Calm Down with Erin and Charissa	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	382	Omny Studio	48
94	Within Reason	Alex J O'Connor	Society & Culture	162	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
96	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
97	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
98	Flesh and Code	Audible	Society & Culture	12	ART19	63
99	Outlaws with TS Madison	iHeartPodcast	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	89
100	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74

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