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 10 Aug 2026

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08/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 239

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:47:40

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Dear Media (3 shows)

3. Thomas FreeMe (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

3. Acast (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	150	ART19	58
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	306	Simplecast	63
3	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	58
4	No One Is Normal	Brad H. Hill	Society & Culture	42	Spotify for Podcasters	68
5	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
6	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
7	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	30	Megaphone	89
8	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	37	Unknown	79
9	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
10	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	27	Audioboom	63
11	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	382	Megaphone	58
12	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
13	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	52
14	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	236	Spreaker	78
15	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	458	RedCircle	59
16	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	288	Libsyn	48
17	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	221	RedCircle	48
18	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
19	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	32
21	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	38	Buzzsprout	48
22	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	142	Buzzsprout	68
23	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	146	Simplecast	62
24	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
25	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
26	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	297	Spreaker	59
27	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	118	Megaphone	48
28	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	452	RedCircle	63
29	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	25	Acast	63
30	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	44	Acast	84
31	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	245	Megaphone	38
32	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	391	Megaphone	48
33	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	151	Omny Studio	42
34	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
35	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	109	Acast	68
36	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1044	Spotify for Podcasters	22
37	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	239	Spotify for Podcasters	52
38	Not Aspirational with Hannah Aaron Brown	Hannah Aaron Brown	Society & Culture	286	Libsyn	32
39	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
40	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	239	Megaphone	49
41	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
42	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	127	Omny Studio	57
43	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	207	ART19	63
44	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	53	Podbean	62
45	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
46	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	98	Acast	63
47	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
48	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	33	PRX	59
49	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
50	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	189	Spotify for Podcasters	58
51	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	270	Acast	53
52	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	451	Omny Studio	59
53	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
54	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	138	Megaphone	63
55	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	361	Libsyn	63
56	Oh! The Places You'll GROW!	Amanda Radel	Society & Culture	26	Acast	58
57	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
58	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	603	Audiomeans	83
59	Between Us Girlies	USALA Media	Society & Culture	87	Spreaker	74
60	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	378	Acast	32
61	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	182	Megaphone	48
62	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	Athenaeum Book Club	Athaenum Book Club	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	48
64	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	73
65	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	143	Acast	37
66	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	87	SoundOn	58
67	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	69
68	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	192	Acast	58
69	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	42	Audioboom	48
70	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
71	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
72	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	228	Simplecast	58
73	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	267	Captivate	58
74	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
75	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	247	BBC	43
76	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	48
77	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
78	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	93	Spotify for Podcasters	73
79	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
80	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	79
81	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
82	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	63	Audioboom	59
83	Stories From The Stage	GBH	Society & Culture	180	PRX	73
84	te compré flores	mara urbina	Society & Culture	114	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	Stories That Live In Us	Crista Cowan \| The Barefoot Genealogist	Society & Culture	137	Buzzsprout	83
86	Can I Walk With You?	Thoraya	Society & Culture	16	Libsyn	58
87	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	250	Buzzsprout	73
88	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	101	Simplecast	48
89	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
90	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	570	Buzzsprout	53
91	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	241	WideOrbit	52
92	When Goodbye Comes Too Early	LTP Hope	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	Don't Be Sour	Maxx Chewning	Society & Culture	163	Libsyn	58
94	I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST	Michael Rapaport x DBPodcasts	Society & Culture	1083	Megaphone	42
95	Would You Believe…? with Rebecca Rogers	Rebecca Rogers & Studio71	Society & Culture	117	Megaphone	68
97	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
98	جناية	Mics مايكس	Society & Culture	122	Podeo	58
99	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
100	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	475	Megaphone	53

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