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 30 Jul 2025

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07/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 321

Frequency: every 56 days

Duration: 00:55:32

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (5 shows)

2. The New York Times (4 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

4. Dear Media (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (13 shows)

5. Acast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Flesh and Code	Audible	Society & Culture	11	ART19	63
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	398	Megaphone	53
3	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
4	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	512	Simplecast	38
6	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	63	ART19	63
7	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
8	Traditional Talk	Traditional Podcast	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	38
9	Liberty Lost	Audible	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	79	Simplecast	47
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	63
13	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1146	Megaphone	58
14	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
15	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
18	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1203	Libsyn	63
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1179	Omny Studio	59
21	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	638	Megaphone	48
22	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
23	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2167	Acast	43
24	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	396	Megaphone	48
25	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
26	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
27	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
28	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
29	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
30	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	102	ART19	68
31	What the F*#! Do We Do Now?!	Sumi and Ryan	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	48
32	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
34	Earth Ancients	Cliff Dunning	Society & Culture	850	Spreaker	64
35	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	360	Megaphone	59
36	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	208	Simplecast	32
37	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
38	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
39	Unsupervised with Syd & TP	Dear Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	48
40	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
41	Cannonball with Wesley Morris	The New York Times	Society & Culture	47	Simplecast	58
42	BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley	Sydney Leroux, Ali Riley	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	58
43	Charlie's Place	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	6	Omny Studio	69
44	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	503	Libsyn	52
45	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1721	Libsyn	53
46	Just A Moment	Brant Menswar	Society & Culture	43	ART19	69
47	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
48	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	274	Omny Studio	83
49	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	152	Simplecast	73
50	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
51	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	289	ART19	83
52	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
53	Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	212	Omny Studio	63
54	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	62
55	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	68
56	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
57	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
58	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	122	Megaphone	38
59	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	670	Megaphone	42
60	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	144	ART19	73
61	Kat on the Loose	Kat Zammuto	Society & Culture	287	RedCircle	89
62	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	244	Simplecast	63
63	Everything's Perfect	Everything's Perfect	Society & Culture	74	Spreaker	59
64	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
65	The Wild Chaos Podcast	Wild Chaos	Society & Culture	111	Buzzsprout	73
66	Surrounded	Jubilee Media	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	53
67	Uinta Triangle	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	79
68	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	63
69	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
70	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
71	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
72	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
73	GRG the pod	Manifest Media	Society & Culture	18	RedCircle	59
74	Can I Walk With You?	Thoraya	Society & Culture	17	Libsyn	63
75	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	798	Megaphone	58
76	Wartime Stories	unknown_author	Society & Culture	118	Megaphone	52
77	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
78	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	176	ART19	48
79	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	150	ART19	52
80	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	183	Simplecast	58
81	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	540	Unknown	38
82	Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	192	Nox Solutions	59
83	Don't Call Me White Girl	Breakbeat Media	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	59
84	Unlocking Us with Brené Brown	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	134	Megaphone	53
85	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
86	More Than Reality with Adam and Danielle	Adam and Danielle Busby	Society & Culture	100	Megaphone	89
87	The Protocol	The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	63
88	On Being with Krista Tippett	On Being Studios	Society & Culture	986	Simplecast	73
89	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
90	The Brett Cooper Show	Brett Cooper	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	68
92	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
93	Nice White Parents	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	79
94	Outlaws with TS Madison	iHeartPodcast	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	89
95	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1180	ART19	48
96	Good Guys	Dear Media	Society & Culture	351	Megaphone	58
97	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	144	Omny Studio	42
98	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
99	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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