The Top Podcasts in the USA by Popularity (⌚ Updated Daily)

I know, this is a tricky one. How can we judge the top podcasts in the USA, right now? Is it by production value? By entertainment value? By educational value? Or any number of the other amazing things that podcasts bring us!

Well, I’m going to take the wimp’s way out, and not judge it at all! Instead, here you’ll find a list of the top podcasts in the USA, right now, as judged by YOU and your downloads! Yes, this is a popularity contest: the most popular podcasts in the USA, this minute. True, the chart rankings are caused by many different variables. Some variables are stranger than others. May the most outrageous win.

The Top Podcasts in the USA by Download Numbers

This is a live feed, updated daily, of the most popular podcasts on Apple’s listings, right now. You’ll find the top 100 shows here. That should be enough to keep you busy for quite some time!

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Last updated on the 20th of May 2024 at 09:01 am (GMT)

1. Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings

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The Top Podcasts in the USA by Download Numbers

1. Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings

2. Acquired

3. The Joe Rogan Experience

4. CounterClock

5. The Daily

6. Dateline NBC

7. Crime Junkie

8. SmartLess

9. Morbid

10. Dateline: True Crime Weekly

11. Serial

12. Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

13. 20/20

14. Stuff You Should Know

15. White Devil

16. Huberman Lab

17. The Mel Robbins Podcast

18. The Tucker Carlson Show

19. Up First

20. This American Life

21. Ransom

22. Fail Better with David Duchovny

23. Call Her Daddy

24. The Bill Simmons Podcast

25. Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!

26. Beyond All Repair

27. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

28. The Ben Shapiro Show

29. 48 Hours

30. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

31. MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

32. Tides of History

33. The Rest Is History

34. Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin

35. Pod Save America

36. KILL TONY

37. Club Random with Bill Maher

38. Conan Oâ€Brien Needs A Friend

39. The School of Greatness

40. The Ramsey Show

41. The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

42. The Megyn Kelly Show

43. The Commercial Break

44. REAL AF with Andy Frisella

45. Serialously with Annie Elise

46. Uncared For

47. Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

48. Radiolab

49. Something Was Wrong

50. Freakonomics Radio

51. That Was Us

52. Pardon My Take

53. Giggly Squad

54. Snapped: Women Who Murder

55. Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep

56. The Ezra Klein Show

57. Shawn Ryan Show

58. Passion Struck with John R. Miles

59. All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

60. Inconceivable Truth

61. Morning Wire

62. Planet Money

63. Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast

64. Hidden Brain

65. We Can Do Hard Things

66. Casefile True Crime

67. New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce

68. The Dan Bongino Show

69. Last Podcast On The Left

70. The Bible Recap

71. Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

72. Fresh Air

73. Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

74. The Moth

75. Something You Should Know

76. The Girlfriends: Our Lost Sister

77. The Toast

78. Normal Gossip