---
title: "Appendix B: List of top-ranked podcasts"
description: "Names of the 451 top-ranked podcasts included in this report"
date: "2023-06-15"
authors:
  - name: "Sara Atske"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2023/06/15/appendix-b-list-of-top-ranked-podcasts/"
categories:
  - "Audio, Radio & Podcasts"
  - "Digital News Landscape"
  - "Entertainment"
  - "Media Industry"
  - "News Habits & Media"
  - "News Media Trends"
  - "Politics & Media"
  - "Politics Online"
---

# Appendix B: List of top-ranked podcasts

### Names of the 451 top-ranked podcasts included in this report

- 20/20

- 12 Hour Sound Machines for Sleep (no loops or fades)

- 2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer

- 48 Hours

- A Kansas State of Mind

- Acquired

- Adam Carolla Show

- Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos

- After Hours with Alex Cooper

- Against The Odds

- Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

- Alex Wagner Tonight

- All Relative: Defining Diego

- All There Is with Anderson Cooper

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

- The Always Sunny Podcast

- Am I the Jerk?

- American History Tellers

- American Hostage

- American Scandal

- Anatomy of Murder

- Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant with Akaash Singh

- Angie Martinez IRL

- ANMA

- Another Russia

- anything goes with emma chamberlain

- Archetypes

- Archewell Audio

- Are You Garbage? Comedy Podcast

- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

- The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

- The Atlas Obscura Podcast

- Aubrey Marcus Podcast

- Back to the Barre

- Back to the beach with Kristin and Stephen

- BADLANDS

- The Ballad Of Uncle Drank

- Banned

- Bannon’s War Room

- Banter

- Barstool Pick Em

- Baseball Is Dead

- Batman Unburied

- BE KIND TO EVERYONE

- Behind the Bastards

- The Ben Shapiro Show

- The Best One Yet

- Betrayal

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

- The Bible Recap

- The Big Conn: The Official Podcast

- The Bill Simmons Podcast

- The Bill Simmons Podcast: The Interviews

- Björk: Sonic Symbolism

- Black Girl Gone: A True Crime Podcast

- Blood Ties

- Bloodthirsty Hearts

- Blowback

- Blurry Creatures

- Bob Does Sports Podcast

- Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

- Bone Valley

- The Book Case

- The Book Of Wrestling

- Borderline Salty

- Born to rule: When Charles is King

- The Break Up Break Down

- Breaking Bread

- Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

- The Bridge

- Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson

- Broken Doors

- BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein (BROKEN: Seeking Justice)

- Buried Bones

- Bussin’ With The Boys

- Call For Help

- Call Her Daddy

- Call Me Curious

- Can You Don’t?

- Candace Owens

- Caresha Please

- Casefile Presents: Matty

- Casefile True Crime

- Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen

- The Charlie Kirk Show

- Chins & Giggles

- The Chris Cuomo Project

- Circle Time

- Club Random with Bill Maher

- Cold Cases

- The Comment Section with Drew Afualo

- Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

- Conspiracy Theories

- Conviction

- Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

- CounterClock

- Creeps and Crimes

- Crime Junkie

- Crimehub: A True Crime Podcast

- Crimes of Passion

- Criminal

- The Criminal Makeup

- Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle

- The Daily

- The Daily Beans

- Daily Dad Jokes

- The Dan Bongino Show

- The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

- The Danny Brown Show

- Dare to Lead with Brené Brown

- Dark History

- Dateline: Missing In America

- Dateline NBC

- DAVI THE SCAPEGOAT

- Dead and Gone

- Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

- Death of an Artist

- The Deck

- Devious Dads

- Die Of Laughter

- The Digital Sisterhood

- Dispatches From Myrtle Beach

- Dissect

- Distractible

- The Domonique Foxworth Show

- Don’t Be Sour

- Donut Racing Show

- The Draymond Green Show

- The Dropout

- Dumb Blonde

- Dungeons and Daddies

- Dynasty by Vanity Fair

- Echo Park

- Epic: The Vela (Epic: Ctrl-Alt-Destroy)

- The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley

- The Ezra Klein Show

- Facing Evil

- Fantasy Focus Football

- Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

- Fantasy Football Today

- Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast

- FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

- Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

- Father Wants Us Dead

- FBI Retired Case File Review

- Fed Up

- Financial Feminist

- The First Degree

- First Person

- Flamingo

- Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

- Forensic Files II

- Freakonomics Radio

- Freaky Folklore

- Fresh Air

- Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets (Fringe Network: Alien State)

- FULL SEND PODCAST

- Funny Cuz It’s True with Elyse Myers

- Game Of Thrones: Season 8 Redux

- Games with Names

- The Genius Life

- Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

- Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus

- Girls Next Level

- The Glenn Beck Program

- Global News Podcast

- GoJo with Mike Golic Jr.

- Good Cult

- Good Guys

- Good Influences

- Good Inside with Dr. Becky

- Gorillaz presents: The Stuart Potcast

- The Great Gatsby

- The Group Chat

- The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

- Healing with David Kessler

- Heaven Bent

- Hell and Gone

- Hidden Brain

- Hideo Kojima presents Brain Structure

- History is US

- Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?

- HOTD: A House of the Dragon Podcast

- The Hottest Take

- The House of Halliwell / A Charmed Rewatch Podcast

- How to Be a Better Human

- How to Talk to People (How to Build a Happy Life)

- Huberman Lab

- I Survived

- I Was Never There

- Idiot

- Impaulsive with Logan Paul

- In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

- In the Land of Lies

- Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

- Internal Affairs

- Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

- It Could Happen Here

- It’s Me, Tinx

- Name Redacted Podcast (Jared Carrabis Podcast)

- The Jeff Gerstmann Show – A Podcast About Video Games

- Jocko Podcast

- The Joe Rogan Experience

- Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast

- The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

- The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

- The Jordan Harbinger Show

- The Journal.

- The Juice with Solomon Georgio

- just a little shady

- Kasich & Klepper

- The Kill List

- KILLED

- Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast

- The Know For Sure Pod

- Knowledge Fight

- Kuper Island

- The Kyle Kulinski Show

- The Langley Files: CIA’s Podcast

- Last Day

- Last Podcast On The Left

- Law&Crime Sidebar

- Le Monstre

- The Letter

- Lex Fridman Podcast

- Lights Out

- Listening In

- Live From …

- Live Wild with Remi Warren

- Locked Inside

- Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram

- Luna Storytimes

- Maintenance Phase

- Making Space with Hoda Kotb

- Malicious Moms

- The Martha Stewart Podcast

- The Martyrmade Podcast

- The Matt Walsh Show

- Mean Girl

- The Megyn Kelly Show

- The Mel Robbins Podcast

- On Display with Melissa Gorga

- The Michael Knowles Show

- The Midnight Miracle

- Mind of a Monster: Aileen Wuornos

- The Mindset Mentor

- Missed Fortune

- Modern Wisdom

- Monday Morning Podcast

- Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin

- Morbid

- More Than A Feeling

- Morning Cup of Murder

- Morning Wire

- The Moth

- Mother Country Radicals

- Motivation Daily by Motiversity

- Motive

- Move With Heart

- MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

- Mufti Menk

- True Sunlight (Murdaugh Murders Podcast)

- Murder, Mystery & Makeup

- Murder Sheet

- Murder With My Husband

- My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

- My Story Animated Podcast

- My Unsung Hero

- Mythology

- Mythology Sagas: Thor & Loki

- National Park After Dark

- New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce

- No Compromise

- Normal Gossip

- Not Skinny But Not Fat

- NPR News Now

- Off Leash

- Off The Pike with Brian Barrett

- Off the Record with DJ Akademiks

- Office Ladies

- The Official Game of Thrones Podcast: House of Dragon

- Ologies with Alie Ward

- On My Mind with Ava Jules

- On Purpose with Jay Shetty

- On with Kara Swisher

- The Operator With Rob O’Neill

- Oversharing

- PAIGE by Paige.

- The Palcast

- Pardon My Take

- Park Predators

- PBD Podcast

- Perfect Person

- Persona: The French Deception

- The Pink Moon Murders

- PlanBri Uncut

- Planet Money

- Please Don’t Tell Anyone

- Pod Meets World

- Pod Save America

- Podcrushed

- Ponte Las Pilas

- Power Trip

- Pretend – a true crime podcast about con artists

- The Problem With Jon Stewart

- The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

- Project Unabom

- The Prosecutors

- The Rachel Maddow Show

- Radio Rental

- Radiolab

- Raised By Ricki with Ricki Lake and Kalen Allen

- The Ramsey Show

- The Randy Rainbow Podcast

- R&B Money

- REAL AF with Andy Frisella

- Real Ones with Jon Bernthal

- Real Time with Bill Maher

- Reality with The King

- Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins (A Stranger Things Podcast)

- The Refine Podcast

- Relaxing White Noise

- The Rest Is History

- ReThinking

- Revealing Your Secrets with Alyx Weiss

- Revisionist History

- Revolutions

- The Ringer’s Philly Special

- The Ringer-Verse

- Ripper Magoo Podcast

- Rituals

- The Roman Atwood Podcast

- Rotten Mango

- Rule of Life

- Run, Bambi, Run

- The Run-Up

- The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

- Sacred Scandal

- Scamfluencers

- Scary Horror Stories by Dr. NoSleep

- Science Vs

- Scotland Yard Confidential

- The Secret Room | True Stories

- The Seduction

- Sent Away

- Serial

- Serial Killer: A True Crime Podcast

- Serial Killers

- Serious Trouble

- Sex With Emily

- The Shane Dawson Podcast

- Shark Attacks in Paradise

- Shawn Ryan Show

- Short History Of…

- ShxtsNGigs

- Significant Others

- Sinister Societies

- Slow Burn

- Slow News Day with Kevin Clark

- Small Talk is Dead

- Small Town Murder

- Smart Money Happy Hour with Rachel Cruze and George Kamel

- SmartLess

- Smoke Screen: Just Say You’re Sorry (Smoke Screen: Puppy Kingpin)

- Snapped: Women Who Murder

- Solitaire

- Someone Knows Something

- Something Was Wrong

- Sound Barrier: Sylvester

- Sounds Like A Cult

- Speaking of Psychology

- The Staircase Podcast

- Standoff

- Barstool Baseball (Starting 9)

- Stolen

- Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

- Strict Scrutiny

- Stuff You Should Know

- Suburb Talks

- The Sum Of Us

- Sunday Scaries by Headspace

- The Sunshine Place

- Suspect

- Sword and Scale

- Sympathy Pains

- Take Your Shoes Off w/ Rick Glassman

- Talk Ville

- Tana’s Toxic Tips

- Teachers Off Duty

- The Teacher’s Pet

- Tenfold More Wicked

- The Tennis Podcast

- The Terminal List Podcast with Jack Carr

- Therapy and Theology

- Therapy Gecko

- The Thing About Pam

- Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

- This American Life

- This Changes Everything

- This Is Actually Happening

- This Past Weekend

- The Tim Dillon Show

- Tin Foil Hat with Sam Tripoli

- Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy

- The Toast

- Tom Rinaldi Presents: Wesley

- TRIGGERnometry

- The Trojan Horse Affair

- True Crime with Kendall Rae

- Truthers: Tiffany Dover Is Dead*

- Trying Not to Care

- Twin Flames

- Two Hot Takes

- UK Unknown

- Undisclosed

- Unexpected with Hannah Love

- Unf*ck Your Brain

- Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

- Unraveled

- Unsealed: Tylenol Murders

- Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories

- Up and Vanished

- Up First

- Uprooted

- V Interesting with V Spehar

- Very Scary People

- The Viall Files

- Vibin’ & Kinda Thrivin’

- The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

- Vigilante

- Violating Community Guidelines with Brittany Broski and Sarah Schauer

- Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!

- We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle

- WeCrashed

- What Happened To Sandy Beal

- What Was That Like

- White Eagle

- Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?

- Who Killed Daphne?

- The Wilderness

- Will Be Wild

- The Wire at 20

- Witnessed: Devil in the Ditch (Witnessed: Mystic Mother)

- Wolves Among Us

- Workin’ On It with Meghan Trainor & Ryan Trainor

- You Can’t Make This Up

- You, Me & Mike

- Your Magic

- Your Mom’s House with Christina P. And Tom Segura

- Your Own Backyard

- You’re Wrong About