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 07 sept. 2026

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09/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 232

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:47:39

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. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Acast (9 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (5 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	299	Simplecast	63
2	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
3	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
4	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
5	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	101	ART19	58
6	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	208	RedCircle	48
7	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	58
8	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
9	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
10	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
11	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	230	Spreaker	78
12	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
13	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	147	Spreaker	48
14	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
16	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	285	Libsyn	48
17	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	345	Megaphone	42
18	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
19	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	235	Megaphone	38
20	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
22	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	137	Simplecast	62
23	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
24	The Chat- Life Unfiltered	Grace Pisciotta	Society & Culture	40	Spotify for Podcasters	32
25	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	23	Megaphone	79
26	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
27	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
28	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	277	Spreaker	59
29	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
30	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	355	Libsyn	63
31	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	219	Spotify for Podcasters	52
32	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	54	Omny Studio	38
33	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
34	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	121	Omny Studio	57
35	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	62
36	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	100	Megaphone	48
37	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	38	Acast	84
38	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	144	Omny Studio	42
39	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
40	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
41	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	169	Megaphone	48
42	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
43	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	228	Megaphone	49
44	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	194	ART19	63
45	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
46	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
47	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1005	Spotify for Podcasters	22
48	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	60	Megaphone	74
49	Access to Inspiration	Sue Stockdale	Society & Culture	175	Spreaker	84
50	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	221	Simplecast	58
51	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	90	Acast	63
52	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	22	Acast	43
53	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
54	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	48
55	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
56	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
57	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
58	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	73
59	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	374	Acast	32
60	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
61	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	445	Omny Studio	59
62	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	32
63	Missing Pieces - NPE Life	Don Anderson	Society & Culture	90	Buzzsprout	62
64	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	264	ART19	68
65	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
66	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	79
67	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	80	SoundOn	58
68	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
69	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	132	Megaphone	63
70	پادکست فارسی فیکشن Fiction Podcast	NewshaCast UG	Society & Culture	225	Unknown	47
71	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	22
72	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
73	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	35	Audioboom	48
74	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	428	Megaphone	69
75	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	261	Captivate	58
76	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	244	Buzzsprout	73
77	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	145	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	57	Audioboom	59
79	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	257	Acast	53
80	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	183	Spotify for Podcasters	58
81	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
82	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	138	Acast	37
83	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	581	Audion	83
84	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	290	Audioboom	53
85	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	179	Acast	58
86	I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST	Michael Rapaport x DBPodcasts	Society & Culture	1083	Megaphone	42
87	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	141	Buzzsprout	68
88	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
89	Euphomet	And,If Studio	Society & Culture	91	Megaphone	48
90	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	190	Megaphone	53
91	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	453	N/A	N/A
92	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
93	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	73
94	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
95	Grandpa’s Sleep Stories For Grown-Ups	Grandpa’s Bedtime Stories For Grown-Ups	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
96	The Real Stuff with Lucie Fink	Dear Media	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	48
97	My Mother Made Me	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	84
98	جناية	Mics مايكس	Society & Culture	118	Podeo	58
99	The Comeback Era with Caroline and Kayla	Caroline and Kayla	Society & Culture	17	RSS.com	52
100	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

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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