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 16 Oct 2026

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10/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 227

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:47:29

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Dear Media (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Acast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	142	ART19	58
2	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	132	Omny Studio	63
3	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	30	WideOrbit	48
4	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
5	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
6	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	36	Unknown	79
7	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	287	Libsyn	48
8	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	235	Spreaker	78
9	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	25	Audioboom	63
10	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
11	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
12	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	366	Megaphone	52
13	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
14	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	452	RedCircle	59
15	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	219	RedCircle	48
16	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
17	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	89
18	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	114	Megaphone	48
19	LoveLustLaw	LoveLustLaw	Society & Culture	49	Audioboom	52
20	Notes from the Edge	bhju	Society & Culture	137	Spreaker	63
21	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	43	Acast	84
22	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	125	Omny Studio	57
23	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	380	Megaphone	58
24	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	390	Megaphone	48
25	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	108	Acast	68
26	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	145	Simplecast	62
27	Voices of VYVGART	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	48
28	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	102	Spotify for Podcasters	22
29	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
30	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	243	Megaphone	38
31	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	149	Omny Studio	42
32	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
33	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	449	RedCircle	63
34	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
35	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
36	Spent Well Podcast	Katey and Dan Brigham	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	17
37	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
38	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
39	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	268	Acast	53
40	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
41	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	236	Spotify for Podcasters	52
42	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	46	Podbean	62
43	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	359	Libsyn	63
44	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
45	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	73
46	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	237	Megaphone	49
47	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	293	Spreaker	59
48	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	32	PRX	69
49	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	189	Acast	58
50	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
51	You Will Please Me	Dominatrix Eva Oh	Society & Culture	107	Spotify for Podcasters	48
52	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
53	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	40	Audioboom	48
54	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	451	Omny Studio	59
55	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
56	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	180	Megaphone	48
57	Cocktales with Kiki	Kiki Said So	Society & Culture	505	Spreaker	64
58	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
59	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	227	Simplecast	58
60	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
61	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	137	Megaphone	63
62	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	245	BBC	43
63	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
64	The Girl Brain Edit	Caroline Beckham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	32
65	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	89	Megaphone	32
66	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
67	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
68	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
69	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	63	Audioboom	59
70	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	188	Spotify for Podcasters	58
71	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	96	Acast	63
72	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1040	Spotify for Podcasters	22
73	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	151	Spreaker	48
74	Nomadcast	Moose and Cheyanne	Society & Culture	45	Buzzsprout	43
75	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	305	Simplecast	63
76	The TED Interview	TED	Society & Culture	117	PRX	64
77	Mostly Thriving Podcast with Amanda + TJ	Amanda and TJ Vernaci	Society & Culture	38	Spotify for Podcasters	17
78	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	377	Acast	32
79	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	205	ART19	63
80	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	250	Buzzsprout	73
81	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	101	Simplecast	48
82	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
83	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
84	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	266	Captivate	58
85	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	86	SoundOn	58
86	B*tch, Listen!	Imani Gandy - Rewire News Group	Society & Culture	22	Simplecast	68
87	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	79
88	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	293	Audioboom	53
89	Latinos Who Lunch	Latinos Who Lunch	Society & Culture	231	RedCircle	43
90	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	68
91	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	48
92	Erotic Stories by Krystine	Krystine Kellogg	Society & Culture	58	Buzzsprout	48
93	Don't Be Sour	Maxx Chewning	Society & Culture	162	Libsyn	58
94	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	470	N/A	N/A
95	The Rick and Kelly Show	Rick & Kelly Leventhal	Society & Culture	936	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	474	Megaphone	53
97	Would You Believe…? with Rebecca Rogers	Rebecca Rogers & Studio71	Society & Culture	117	Megaphone	68
98	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	69
99	Living a Nordic Life with Fiona McKinna	Fiona McKinna	Society & Culture	99	Buzzsprout	53
100	You’re Gonna Want To Hear This	marie claire australia	Society & Culture	57	Omny Studio	58

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