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 09 Oct 2026

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10/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 233

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:46:11

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. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (11 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	131	Omny Studio	63
2	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	53
3	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	136	ART19	58
4	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	35	Unknown	79
5	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
6	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	235	Spreaker	78
7	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	59
8	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
9	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	25	Audioboom	63
10	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	287	Libsyn	48
11	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	217	RedCircle	48
12	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	364	Megaphone	52
13	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	29	WideOrbit	48
14	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	125	Omny Studio	57
15	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	112	Megaphone	48
16	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	379	Megaphone	58
17	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	79
18	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	42	Acast	84
19	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	108	Acast	68
20	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	63
21	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	389	Megaphone	48
22	Voices of VYVGART	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	48
23	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	242	Megaphone	38
24	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
25	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	149	Omny Studio	42
26	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
27	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	234	Spotify for Podcasters	52
28	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	143	Simplecast	62
29	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	236	Megaphone	49
30	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	31	PRX	69
31	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	187	Spotify for Podcasters	58
32	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
33	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
34	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	291	Spreaker	59
35	The Felon Who Raised Me: A Family Crimes Podcast	Jackie Crow	Society & Culture	16	RedCircle	32
36	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	226	Simplecast	58
37	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	450	Omny Studio	59
38	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
39	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
40	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
41	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
42	The Girl Brain Edit	Caroline Beckham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	32
43	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
44	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	178	Megaphone	48
45	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	101	Spotify for Podcasters	22
46	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	95	Acast	63
47	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	136	Megaphone	63
48	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	266	Acast	53
49	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1039	Spotify for Podcasters	22
50	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
51	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	101	Simplecast	48
52	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	73
53	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	188	Acast	58
54	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	467	N/A	N/A
55	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
56	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
57	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
58	LivingYosh	Joshua "Yosh" Markell	Society & Culture	40	Spotify for Podcasters	43
59	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
60	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	40	Audioboom	48
61	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	359	Libsyn	63
62	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	203	ART19	63
63	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	73
64	Stories That Live In Us	Crista Cowan \| The Barefoot Genealogist	Society & Culture	134	Buzzsprout	83
65	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
66	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
67	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
68	The West London Witch	Rebecca Struzyna	Society & Culture	119	Spotify for Podcasters	28
69	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	293	Audioboom	53
70	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
71	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	249	Buzzsprout	73
72	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	62	Audioboom	59
73	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	265	Captivate	58
74	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	192	Megaphone	53
75	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Between Two Beers Podcast	Steven Holloway & Seamus Marten	Society & Culture	441	Acast	28
77	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	74
78	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	33	Podbean	62
79	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	142	Acast	37
80	Awaken	Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art	Society & Culture	49	Transistor	78
81	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	85	SoundOn	58
82	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	245	BBC	43
83	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	79
84	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	473	Megaphone	53
85	Dua Lipa: At Your Service	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	39	BBC	33
86	in the meadow	vicinthemeadow	Society & Culture	177	Acast	48
87	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
88	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	48
89	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	32
90	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	304	Simplecast	63
91	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
92	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	69
93	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
94	Raised Right with The Spells	Raised Right with The Spells	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	47
95	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	68
96	The Rick and Kelly Show	Rick & Kelly Leventhal	Society & Culture	935	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Milwaukee Uncut	Story Mark Studios	Society & Culture	351	Buzzsprout	48
98	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	377	Acast	32
99	Dear Alana,	Tenderfoot TV	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	69
100	Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi	TED	Society & Culture	25	Acast	43

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