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 05 Sep 2026

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09/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 241

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:47:28

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

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

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Acast (10 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. Audioboom (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
2	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	108	ART19	58
3	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
4	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	127	Omny Studio	63
5	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	32	Unknown	79
6	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
7	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	285	Libsyn	48
8	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	231	Spreaker	78
9	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	210	RedCircle	48
10	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	148	Spreaker	48
11	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
12	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
13	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
15	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	21	Audioboom	63
16	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	373	Megaphone	58
17	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	24	Megaphone	79
18	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	349	Megaphone	42
19	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	58
20	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
21	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	139	Simplecast	62
22	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	237	Megaphone	38
23	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	384	Megaphone	48
24	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
25	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	440	RedCircle	63
26	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	122	Omny Studio	57
27	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
28	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
29	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	33	Podbean	62
30	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	38
31	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	222	Spotify for Podcasters	52
32	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
33	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	222	Simplecast	58
34	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	61	Megaphone	74
35	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	103	Megaphone	48
36	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	145	Omny Studio	42
37	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	39	Acast	84
38	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	230	Megaphone	49
39	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	280	Spreaker	59
40	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
41	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
42	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
43	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1008	Spotify for Podcasters	22
44	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
45	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	97	Spotify for Podcasters	22
46	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	23	Acast	43
47	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
48	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
49	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	91	Acast	63
50	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	181	Acast	58
51	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	196	ART19	63
52	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	133	Megaphone	63
53	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	85	Megaphone	32
54	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
55	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	265	ART19	68
56	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	81	SoundOn	58
57	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	73
58	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	48
59	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	446	Omny Studio	59
60	The Comeback Era with Caroline and Kayla	Caroline and Kayla	Society & Culture	17	RSS.com	52
61	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	73
62	Access to Inspiration	Sue Stockdale	Society & Culture	175	Spreaker	84
63	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	375	Acast	32
64	The Chat- Life Unfiltered	Grace Pisciotta	Society & Culture	40	Spotify for Podcasters	32
65	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	259	Acast	53
66	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	58	Audioboom	59
67	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	170	Megaphone	48
68	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	430	Megaphone	69
69	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	14	Acast	63
70	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	456	N/A	N/A
71	The Real Stuff with Lucie Fink	Dear Media	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	48
72	I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST	Michael Rapaport x DBPodcasts	Society & Culture	1083	Megaphone	42
73	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
74	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
75	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
76	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	36	Audioboom	48
77	Euphomet	And,If Studio	Society & Culture	91	Megaphone	48
78	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
79	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	241	BBC	43
80	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	190	Megaphone	53
81	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	141	Buzzsprout	68
82	My Mother Made Me	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	84
83	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	356	Libsyn	63
84	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
85	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
86	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	291	Audioboom	53
87	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	585	Audion	83
88	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	262	Captivate	58
89	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	139	Acast	37
90	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	79
91	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
92	Indelibly Marked	Dominique Kuykendall	Society & Culture	144	Buzzsprout	53
93	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	99	Simplecast	48
94	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	146	Spotify for Podcasters	52
95	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	553	Buzzsprout	53
96	LA Calling	Don Anderson	Society & Culture	93	RedCircle	79
97	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	470	Megaphone	53
98	TEDx Shorts	TED and PRX	Society & Culture	446	Acast	63
99	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
100	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	70	Audioboom	68

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