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 13 Aug 2026

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08/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 242

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:47:03

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Thomas FreeMe (2 shows)

5. The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

3. Acast (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	107	ART19	58
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	301	Simplecast	63
3	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	32	Unknown	79
4	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	58
5	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	127	Omny Studio	63
6	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	21	Audioboom	63
7	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
8	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	285	Libsyn	48
9	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
10	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
11	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
12	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	348	Megaphone	42
13	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	24	Megaphone	79
14	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
15	No One Is Normal	Brad H. Hill	Society & Culture	42	Spotify for Podcasters	68
16	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	209	RedCircle	48
17	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	231	Spreaker	78
18	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	32
19	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
20	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	138	Simplecast	62
21	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	440	RedCircle	63
22	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	384	Megaphone	48
23	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	39	Acast	84
24	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	373	Megaphone	58
25	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	236	Megaphone	38
26	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	356	Libsyn	63
27	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	141	Buzzsprout	68
28	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	145	Omny Studio	42
29	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	102	Megaphone	48
30	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
31	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	91	Acast	63
32	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	280	Spreaker	59
34	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
35	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	230	Megaphone	49
36	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
37	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
38	te compré flores	mara urbina	Society & Culture	114	Spotify for Podcasters	28
39	Not Aspirational with Hannah Aaron Brown	Hannah Aaron Brown	Society & Culture	281	Libsyn	32
40	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	241	BBC	43
41	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
42	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	122	Omny Studio	57
43	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
44	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	180	Acast	58
45	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
46	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	222	Spotify for Podcasters	52
47	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	23	Acast	43
48	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	222	Simplecast	58
49	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
50	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	38
51	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	195	ART19	63
52	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	33	Podbean	62
53	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	375	Acast	32
54	Oh! The Places You'll GROW!	Amanda Radel	Society & Culture	15	Acast	68
55	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1008	Spotify for Podcasters	22
56	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
57	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	36	Audioboom	48
58	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	133	Megaphone	63
59	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
60	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	455	N/A	N/A
61	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	48
62	Between Us Girlies	USALA Media	Society & Culture	87	Spreaker	74
63	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	139	Acast	37
64	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	446	Omny Studio	59
65	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
66	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	262	Captivate	58
67	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	265	ART19	68
68	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	146	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	170	Megaphone	48
70	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	585	Audion	83
71	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
72	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
73	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	79
74	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	259	Acast	53
75	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	73
76	Indelibly Marked	Dominique Kuykendall	Society & Culture	144	Buzzsprout	53
77	Matriarch Movement	Shayla Oulette Stonechild	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	83
78	Sort Your Life Out Unpacked	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	26	BBC	42
79	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
80	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	241	WideOrbit	52
81	The Rick and Kelly Show	Rick & Kelly Leventhal	Society & Culture	925	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
83	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
84	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	183	Spotify for Podcasters	58
85	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	81	SoundOn	58
86	今日の体温	Jo&Kaila	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	22
87	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	99	Simplecast	48
88	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	291	Audioboom	53
89	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
90	Breaking Social Norms	Isaac "Illuminati Watcher" Weishaupt & Josie Weishaupt	Society & Culture	284	Spreaker	53
91	Powering Through	Jessie Owen & ONWARD Medical	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	73
92	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	97	Spotify for Podcasters	22
93	Girl Stop Playin \| #1 Podcast for Black Women	KOEREYELLE, Personal Development Coach	Society & Culture	414	RedCircle	43
94	Clutter Free Academy	Kathi Lipp	Society & Culture	642	Transistor	48
95	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	469	Megaphone	53
96	Gender Reveal	Tuck Woodstock	Society & Culture	292	Libsyn	58
97	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	553	Buzzsprout	53
98	Athenaeum Book Club	Athaenum Book Club	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	48
99	The Comeback Era with Caroline and Kayla	Caroline and Kayla	Society & Culture	17	RSS.com	52
100	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	245	Buzzsprout	73

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