Current Top 50 Podcasts for 2021 in US

Top Podcasts 2021 based on US Apple Charts - Automatically updated data for 2021 with show categories ranging from true crime to comedy to business and beyond. Check out the list!

• By Scott Mathson (@scottmathson)

Plink is putting together Top Podcasts lists to help listeners discover new podcasts to listen to. Data is based off of iTunes top show charts and is up-to-date/current information (updated on July 8, 2021) Podcast categories and genres range from true crime to comedy to business to news and far beyond.

Apple Podcasts Charts: The Best U.S. Podcasts in 2021

  1. Crime Junkie
    audiochuck
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    2. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  2. Drama Queens
    iHeartRadio
    Podcast's Category/Genre: TV & Film

    3. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  3. The Daily
    The New York Times
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Daily News

    4. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  4. Morbid: A True Crime Podcast
    Morbid: A True Crime Podcast
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy

    5. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  5. International Infamy with Ashley Flowers
    Parcast Network
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    6. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  6. SmartLess
    Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy Interviews

    7. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  7. Paper Ghosts
    iHeartRadio
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    8. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  8. Dateline NBC
    NBC News
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    9. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  9. America's Forgotten Heroes
    The Daily Wire
    Podcast's Category/Genre: History

    10. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  10. Toxic: The Britney Spears Story
    Witness Docs
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Documentary

    11. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  11. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle
    Glennon Doyle & Cadence13
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Relationships

    12. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  12. Haunted Road with Amy Bruni
    iHeartRadio and Grim & Mild
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    13. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  13. Edith!
    QCODE, Crooked Media
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Fiction

    14. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  14. Up First
    NPR
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Daily News

    15. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  15. Park Predators
    audiochuck
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    16. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  16. Your Own Backyard
    Chris Lambert
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    17. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  17. The Ben Shapiro Show
    The Daily Wire
    Podcast's Category/Genre: News

    18. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  18. To Live and Die in LA
    Tenderfoot TV & Cadence 13
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    19. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  19. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
    Exactly Right
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    20. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  20. The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
    Christianity Today
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Christianity

    21. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  21. The Joe Rogan Experience
    Joe Rogan
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy

    22. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  22. WHOA That's Good Podcast
    Sadie Robertson
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Christianity

    23. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  23. Revisionist History
    Pushkin Industries
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Society & Culture

    24. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  24. Stuff You Should Know
    iHeartRadio
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Society & Culture

    25. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  25. Algorithm
    iHeartRadio and TenderfootTV
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    26. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  26. This American Life
    This American Life
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Personal Journals

    27. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  27. The Piketon Massacre
    iHeartRadio
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    28. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  28. CounterClock
    audiochuck
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    29. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  29. Hidden Brain
    Hidden Brain
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Social Sciences

    30. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  30. Up and Vanished
    Tenderfoot TV
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    31. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  31. Murder With My Husband
    iHeartRadio & Cloud10
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    32. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  32. Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
    Team Coco & Earwolf
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy

    33. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  33. Chasing Cosby
    Los Angeles Times
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    34. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  34. On Another Note,
    Raven Elyse
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Society & Culture

    35. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  35. The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
    Ascension Catholic Faith Formation
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Christianity

    36. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  36. 2 Bears 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
    YMH Studios
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy

    37. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  37. Serial
    This American Life
    Podcast's Category/Genre: News

    38. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  38. Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
    Armchair Umbrella
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy

    39. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  39. Anatomy of Murder
    audiochuck
    Podcast's Category/Genre: True Crime

    40. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  40. Radiolab
    WNYC Studios
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Documentary

    41. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  41. Office Ladies
    Earwolf & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy

    42. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  42. Pardon My Take
    Barstool Sports
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Football

    43. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  43. The Ramsey Show
    Ramsey Network
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Investing

    44. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  44. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
    Premiere Networks
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Politics

    45. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  45. The Midnight Miracle
    Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, and Dave Chappelle
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Society & Culture

    46. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  46. Dark History
    Audioboom
    Podcast's Category/Genre: History

    47. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  47. Call Her Daddy
    Barstool Sports
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Comedy

    48. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  48. You're Wrong About
    Michael Hobbes & Sarah Marshall
    Podcast's Category/Genre: History

    49. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  49. The World Beneath
    Imperative Entertainment
    Podcast's Category/Genre: Documentary

    50. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

  50. Throughline
    NPR
    Podcast's Category/Genre: History

    51. Listen/subscribe to podcast:

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