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 15 Aug 2026

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08/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 230

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:46:11

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. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (16 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

3. Acast (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	102	ART19	58
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	63
3	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
4	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
5	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
6	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
7	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	24	Megaphone	79
8	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	58
9	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	285	Libsyn	48
10	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
11	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	231	Spreaker	78
12	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
13	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
15	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	346	Megaphone	42
16	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
17	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	58
18	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	32
19	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
20	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	208	RedCircle	48
21	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
22	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
23	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
24	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	137	Simplecast	62
25	The Comeback Era with Caroline and Kayla	Caroline and Kayla	Society & Culture	17	RSS.com	52
26	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	144	Omny Studio	42
27	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	38	Acast	84
28	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
29	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	141	Buzzsprout	68
30	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	278	Spreaker	59
31	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	235	Megaphone	38
32	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	100	Megaphone	48
33	No One Is Normal	Brad H. Hill	Society & Culture	42	Spotify for Podcasters	68
34	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
35	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	147	Spreaker	48
36	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
37	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	229	Megaphone	49
38	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	22	Acast	43
39	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	355	Libsyn	63
40	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
41	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
42	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	220	Spotify for Podcasters	52
43	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	55	Omny Studio	38
44	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	179	Acast	58
45	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	90	Acast	63
46	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	446	Omny Studio	59
47	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1005	Spotify for Podcasters	22
48	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	194	ART19	63
49	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
50	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
51	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	121	Omny Studio	57
53	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	375	Acast	32
54	te compré flores	mara urbina	Society & Culture	114	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
56	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	73
57	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
58	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	264	ART19	68
59	Behind The Long Gray Line	Sarah Persteins	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	17
60	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	35	Audioboom	48
61	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	145	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	132	Megaphone	63
63	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	581	Audion	83
64	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	28	PRX	69
65	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
66	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	80	SoundOn	58
67	Not Aspirational with Hannah Aaron Brown	Hannah Aaron Brown	Society & Culture	281	Libsyn	32
68	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	169	Megaphone	48
69	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	62
70	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	48
71	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	261	Captivate	58
72	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	221	Simplecast	58
73	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
74	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	454	N/A	N/A
75	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
76	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	70	Audioboom	68
77	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	241	WideOrbit	52
78	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
79	Oh! The Places You'll GROW!	Amanda Radel	Society & Culture	15	Acast	68
80	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
81	Created Worthy - The Life Stories Podcast	Danielle Damrell	Society & Culture	113	Libsyn	N/A
82	Have You Heard George's Podcast?	BBC Sounds	Personal Journals	42	BBC	42
83	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	257	Acast	53
84	Between Us Girlies	USALA Media	Society & Culture	87	Spreaker	74
85	Indelibly Marked	Dominique Kuykendall	Society & Culture	144	Buzzsprout	53
86	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	138	Acast	37
87	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	99	Simplecast	48
88	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	57	Audioboom	59
89	B*tch, Listen!	Imani Gandy - Rewire News Group	Society & Culture	18	Simplecast	68
90	Seacoast Stories	Troy Farkas	Society & Culture	130	Spotify for Podcasters	48
91	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	79
92	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
93	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
94	You’re Gonna Want To Hear This	marie claire australia	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	58
95	The Rick and Kelly Show	Rick & Kelly Leventhal	Society & Culture	923	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	469	Megaphone	53
97	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	183	Spotify for Podcasters	58
98	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
99	TEDx Shorts	TED and PRX	Society & Culture	446	Acast	63
100	Girl Stop Playin \| #1 Podcast for Black Women	KOEREYELLE, Personal Development Coach	Society & Culture	414	RedCircle	43

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