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 Sep 2026

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09/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 267

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:48:53

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

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

5. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (10 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Audioboom (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	114	ART19	58
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
3	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
4	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	496	Libsyn	48
5	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	236	Spreaker	78
6	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
7	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	857	Megaphone	58
8	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
9	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
10	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
11	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	22	Audioboom	63
12	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
13	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	211	RedCircle	48
14	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	148	Spreaker	48
16	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	352	Megaphone	42
17	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	140	Simplecast	62
18	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	25	Megaphone	79
19	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
20	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	545	Megaphone	58
21	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
22	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	123	Omny Studio	57
23	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	250	Megaphone	38
24	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	441	RedCircle	63
25	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	407	Megaphone	48
26	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
27	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
28	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	225	Spotify for Podcasters	52
29	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	231	Megaphone	49
30	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
31	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	62	Megaphone	74
32	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	146	Omny Studio	42
33	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	105	Megaphone	48
34	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	33	Podbean	62
36	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	98	Spotify for Podcasters	22
37	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	457	Spreaker	59
38	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	40	Acast	84
39	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	92	Acast	63
40	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	38
41	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	375	Acast	32
42	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
43	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	197	ART19	63
44	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
45	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	85	Megaphone	32
46	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1037	Spotify for Podcasters	22
47	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	133	Megaphone	63
48	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	37	Audioboom	48
49	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
50	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	172	Megaphone	48
51	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	242	BBC	43
52	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	222	Simplecast	58
53	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
54	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
55	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	458	N/A	N/A
56	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
57	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
58	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	69
59	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	370	Libsyn	63
60	The Real Stuff with Lucie Fink	Dear Media	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	48
61	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	447	Omny Studio	59
62	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	59	Audioboom	59
63	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	261	Acast	53
64	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	182	Acast	58
65	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
66	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
67	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
68	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
69	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	146	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland	GoLoud	Society & Culture	100	Sharpstream	72
71	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	556	Buzzsprout	53
72	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
73	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	262	Captivate	58
74	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	53
75	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	48
76	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	73
77	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	79
78	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
79	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	142	Buzzsprout	68
80	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	71	Audioboom	68
81	Empowerography	Podgo	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
82	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
83	여둘톡	여자 둘이 토크하고 있습니다	Society & Culture	205	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	19	Acast	43
85	Breaking Social Norms	Isaac "Illuminati Watcher" Weishaupt & Josie Weishaupt	Society & Culture	286	Spreaker	53
86	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	189	Megaphone	53
87	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	266	ART19	68
88	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
89	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	702	Audion	83
90	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	99	Simplecast	48
91	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
92	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
93	Indelibly Marked	Dominique Kuykendall	Society & Culture	144	Buzzsprout	53
94	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	470	Megaphone	53
95	Erika de la Vega - En Defensa Propia	Erika De la Vega \| Sonoro	Society & Culture	372	Simplecast	63
96	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	140	Acast	37
97	The Rick and Kelly Show	Rick & Kelly Leventhal	Society & Culture	925	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	پادکست فارسی فیکشن Fiction Podcast	امین اردانی	Fiction	225	Unknown	47
99	Oh! The Places You'll GROW!	Amanda Radel	Society & Culture	15	Acast	68
100	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	82	SoundOn	58

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