Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Personal Journals

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 01 sept. 2026

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09/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 238

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:48:09

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Simplecast (11 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

4. Acast (9 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	100	ART19	58
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	63
3	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
4	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
5	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
6	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
7	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
8	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
9	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	230	Spreaker	78
11	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	147	Spreaker	48
12	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
13	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
14	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	207	RedCircle	48
15	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	345	Megaphone	42
16	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	284	Libsyn	48
17	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	58
18	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	60	Megaphone	74
19	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	121	Omny Studio	57
20	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
21	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
22	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
23	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
24	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	23	Megaphone	79
25	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
26	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
27	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	136	Simplecast	62
28	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
29	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	144	Omny Studio	42
31	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	219	Spotify for Podcasters	52
32	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1005	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	355	Libsyn	63
34	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	90	Acast	63
35	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
36	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	277	Spreaker	59
37	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	38	Acast	84
38	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
39	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	38
40	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	57	Audioboom	59
41	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
42	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	54	Omny Studio	38
43	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	99	Megaphone	48
44	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	62
45	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	35	Audioboom	48
46	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
47	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
48	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
49	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
50	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
51	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	228	Megaphone	49
52	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	256	Acast	53
53	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	428	Megaphone	69
54	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	32
55	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
56	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
57	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	131	Megaphone	63
58	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
59	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	445	Omny Studio	59
60	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	221	Simplecast	58
61	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	193	ART19	63
62	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	18	Acast	53
63	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	290	Audioboom	53
64	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	261	Captivate	58
65	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	73
66	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	168	Megaphone	48
67	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	79
68	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	141	Buzzsprout	68
69	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	69	Audioboom	68
70	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	145	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	138	Acast	37
72	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	374	Acast	32
73	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
74	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	581	Audion	83
75	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	99	Simplecast	48
76	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
77	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	264	ART19	68
78	Fruit: The Cost of Legacy	Hoorae Media, Issa Rae Productions, Raedio LLc	Society & Culture	26	Simplecast	53
79	Indelibly Marked	Dominique Kuykendall	Society & Culture	144	Buzzsprout	53
80	Empowerography	Podgo	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
81	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	244	Buzzsprout	73
82	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
83	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	430	Megaphone	48
84	جناية	Mics مايكس	Society & Culture	118	Podeo	58
85	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	80	SoundOn	58
86	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	182	Spotify for Podcasters	58
87	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
88	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	452	N/A	N/A
89	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
90	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
91	여둘톡	여자 둘이 토크하고 있습니다	Society & Culture	203	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
93	Erika de la Vega - En Defensa Propia	Erika De la Vega \| Sonoro	Society & Culture	370	Simplecast	63
94	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	549	Buzzsprout	53
95	Gender Reveal	Tuck Woodstock	Society & Culture	292	Libsyn	58
96	Dua Lipa: At Your Service	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	39	BBC	33
97	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	469	Megaphone	53
98	The Julie Jeppson Podcast	Gritty Mamas and More	Society & Culture	72	Buzzsprout	48
99	te compré flores	mara urbina	Society & Culture	114	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi	TED	Society & Culture	24	Acast	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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