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 12 sept. 2026

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09/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 226

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:47:40

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Dear Media (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 (21 shows)

2. Simplecast (10 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

4. Acast (8 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	299	Simplecast	63
2	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	100	ART19	58
3	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	23	Megaphone	79
4	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
5	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
6	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
8	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	230	Spreaker	78
9	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
10	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	207	RedCircle	48
11	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	147	Spreaker	48
12	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
13	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
14	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	284	Libsyn	48
15	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
16	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	345	Megaphone	42
17	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
18	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	58
19	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
20	The Chisme Corner with Vee Rivera	Sonoro	Society & Culture	35	Simplecast	62
21	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
22	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	38	Acast	84
23	The beyond the ordinary’s Podcast	podgrowthagency	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	37
24	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
25	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	99	Megaphone	48
26	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
27	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	136	Simplecast	62
28	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	32
29	The Chat- Life Unfiltered	Grace Pisciotta	Society & Culture	40	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	121	Omny Studio	57
31	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	38
32	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
33	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
34	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	62
36	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	219	Spotify for Podcasters	52
37	Raised Right with The Spells	Raised Right with The Spells	Society & Culture	2	Buzzsprout	62
38	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
39	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	144	Omny Studio	42
40	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	90	Acast	63
41	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
42	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
43	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1005	Spotify for Podcasters	22
44	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	228	Megaphone	49
45	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	277	Spreaker	59
46	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	54	Omny Studio	38
47	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
48	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
49	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	168	Megaphone	48
50	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
51	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	193	ART19	63
52	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	138	Acast	37
53	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	445	Omny Studio	59
54	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	264	ART19	68
55	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	18	Acast	53
56	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	355	Libsyn	63
57	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	131	Megaphone	63
58	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	182	Spotify for Podcasters	58
59	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	22
60	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	60	Megaphone	74
61	Dua Lipa: At Your Service	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	39	BBC	33
62	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
63	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	374	Acast	32
64	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
65	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
66	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
67	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	80	SoundOn	58
68	FrazierChronicles Podcast	David Frazier	Society & Culture	78	Spotify for Podcasters	27
69	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	290	Audioboom	53
70	I AM RAPAPORT: STEREO PODCAST	Michael Rapaport x DBPodcasts	Society & Culture	1083	Megaphone	42
71	LivingYosh	Joshua "Yosh" Markell	Society & Culture	30	Unknown	53
72	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	452	N/A	N/A
73	Access to Inspiration	Sue Stockdale	Society & Culture	175	Spreaker	84
74	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	73
75	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	256	Acast	53
76	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	178	Acast	58
77	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	581	Audion	83
78	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	145	Spotify for Podcasters	52
79	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	430	Megaphone	48
80	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	221	Simplecast	58
81	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
82	پادکست فارسی فیکشن Fiction Podcast	NewshaCast UG	Society & Culture	225	Unknown	47
83	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
84	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	69	Audioboom	68
85	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
86	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
87	Don't Be Sour	Maxx Chewning	Society & Culture	161	Libsyn	58
88	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	261	Captivate	58
89	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	549	Buzzsprout	53
90	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	99	Simplecast	48
91	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
92	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	428	Megaphone	69
93	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	35	Audioboom	48
94	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	79
95	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	57	Audioboom	59
96	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
97	今日の体温	Jo&Kaila	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	22
98	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	73
99	Erika de la Vega - En Defensa Propia	Erika De la Vega \| Sonoro	Society & Culture	370	Simplecast	63
100	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	190	Megaphone	53

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