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 03 Aug 2026

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08/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 224

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:51:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Dear Media (3 shows)

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

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Thomas FreeMe (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

3. Acast (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	150	ART19	58
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	306	Simplecast	63
3	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
4	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	30	Megaphone	89
5	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
6	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	37	Unknown	79
7	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
8	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	236	Spreaker	78
9	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
10	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	52
11	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	382	Megaphone	58
12	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
13	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	27	Audioboom	63
14	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	221	RedCircle	48
15	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	458	RedCircle	59
16	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	25	Acast	63
17	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	38	Buzzsprout	48
18	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
19	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
21	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	288	Libsyn	48
22	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	118	Megaphone	48
23	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	58
24	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	32
25	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	146	Simplecast	62
26	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	452	RedCircle	63
27	When Goodbye Comes Too Early	LTP Hope	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	58
28	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	245	Megaphone	38
29	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	391	Megaphone	48
30	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1044	Spotify for Podcasters	22
31	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
32	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	297	Spreaker	59
33	Slinky By Tuesday	Lucy Trinder	Society & Culture	30	Acast	69
34	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
35	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	109	Acast	68
36	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	44	Acast	84
37	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
38	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	151	Omny Studio	42
39	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	361	Libsyn	63
40	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	207	ART19	63
41	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
42	LifeLessons: Wisdom from People Who Lived Past 100	Erik Hensel	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	27
43	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
44	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	98	Acast	63
45	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
46	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	239	Megaphone	49
47	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	33	PRX	59
48	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	68
49	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	53	Podbean	62
50	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
51	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	603	Audiomeans	83
52	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
53	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	247	BBC	43
54	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	451	Omny Studio	59
55	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
56	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	142	Buzzsprout	68
57	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	189	Spotify for Podcasters	58
58	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
59	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	192	Acast	58
60	Oh! The Places You'll GROW!	Amanda Radel	Society & Culture	26	Acast	58
61	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	48
62	No One Is Normal	Brad H. Hill	Society & Culture	42	Spotify for Podcasters	68
63	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	87	SoundOn	58
64	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
65	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	182	Megaphone	48
66	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	270	Acast	53
67	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	127	Omny Studio	57
68	LA Calling	Don Anderson	Society & Culture	93	RedCircle	79
69	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	79
70	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	143	Acast	37
71	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	42	Audioboom	48
72	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	63	Audioboom	59
73	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	378	Acast	32
74	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
75	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	241	WideOrbit	52
76	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
77	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
78	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
79	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	570	Buzzsprout	53
80	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	228	Simplecast	58
81	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
82	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	138	Megaphone	63
83	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	250	Buzzsprout	73
84	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	93	Spotify for Podcasters	73
85	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	69
86	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
88	Indelibly Marked	Dominique Kuykendall	Society & Culture	148	Buzzsprout	53
89	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	294	Audioboom	53
90	The Cosmic Nomad	Bailey Rushlow	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	73
91	Grandpa’s Sleep Stories For Grown-Ups	Grandpa’s Bedtime Stories For Grown-Ups	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
92	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	267	Captivate	58
93	The Jason Jones Show	Jason Jones	Society & Culture	408	Simplecast	53
94	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
95	Stories That Live In Us	Crista Cowan \| The Barefoot Genealogist	Society & Culture	137	Buzzsprout	83
96	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	73
97	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	31	WideOrbit	48
98	جناية	Mics مايكس	Society & Culture	122	Podeo	58
99	여둘톡	여자 둘이 토크하고 있습니다	Society & Culture	210	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	Can I Walk With You?	Thoraya	Society & Culture	16	Libsyn	58

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