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 08 Sep 2026

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09/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 227

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:48:01

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (3 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 (21 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

3. Acast (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (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	298	Simplecast	63
2	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	30	Unknown	79
3	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
4	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
5	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
6	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
7	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
8	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	207	RedCircle	48
9	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	99	ART19	58
10	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
11	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	230	Spreaker	78
13	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	58
14	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	345	Megaphone	42
15	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	284	Libsyn	48
16	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	147	Spreaker	48
17	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
18	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
19	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
21	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	355	Libsyn	63
22	The Chat- Life Unfiltered	Grace Pisciotta	Society & Culture	40	Spotify for Podcasters	32
23	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	38
24	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
25	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
26	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	38
27	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	23	Megaphone	79
28	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	136	Simplecast	62
29	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1005	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
31	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	29	Podbean	62
32	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	277	Spreaker	59
33	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	219	Spotify for Podcasters	52
34	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
35	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
36	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	37	Acast	84
37	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	89	Acast	63
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	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
41	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	99	Megaphone	48
42	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
43	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	121	Omny Studio	57
44	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
45	Access to Inspiration	Sue Stockdale	Society & Culture	175	Spreaker	84
46	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
47	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
48	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	228	Megaphone	49
49	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
50	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	168	Megaphone	48
51	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	60	Megaphone	74
52	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
53	Don't Be Sour	Maxx Chewning	Society & Culture	161	Libsyn	58
54	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	193	ART19	63
55	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
56	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	264	ART19	68
57	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	32
58	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	220	Simplecast	58
59	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	18	Acast	53
60	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	22
61	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	260	Captivate	58
62	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
63	The beyond the ordinary’s Podcast	podgrowthagency	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	37
64	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	131	Megaphone	63
65	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	35	Audioboom	48
66	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
67	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	430	Megaphone	48
68	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	73
69	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
70	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	374	Acast	32
71	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	445	Omny Studio	59
72	Missing Pieces - NPE Life	Don Anderson	Society & Culture	90	Buzzsprout	62
73	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
74	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
75	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	73
76	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	582	Audion	83
77	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	428	Megaphone	69
78	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	79
79	پادکست فارسی فیکشن Fiction Podcast	NewshaCast UG	Society & Culture	225	Unknown	47
80	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	145	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	182	Spotify for Podcasters	58
82	I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST	Michael Rapaport x DBPodcasts	Society & Culture	1083	Megaphone	42
83	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	256	Acast	53
84	جناية	Mics مايكس	Society & Culture	117	Podeo	58
85	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	141	Buzzsprout	68
86	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
87	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	290	Audioboom	53
88	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
89	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	137	Acast	37
90	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	178	Acast	58
91	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	80	SoundOn	58
92	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	57	Audioboom	59
93	Grandpa’s Sleep Stories For Grown-Ups	Grandpa’s Bedtime Stories For Grown-Ups	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
94	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
95	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	190	Megaphone	53
96	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
97	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	244	Buzzsprout	73
98	My Mother Made Me	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	84
99	No One Is Normal	Brad H. Hill	Society & Culture	42	Spotify for Podcasters	68
100	The Julie Jeppson Podcast	Gritty Mamas and More	Society & Culture	72	Buzzsprout	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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