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 19 Oct 2026

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10/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 212

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:46:13

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. Sapphire Sandalo (2 shows)

5. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

3. Acast (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Audioboom (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	141	ART19	58
2	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	132	Omny Studio	63
3	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
4	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	30	WideOrbit	48
5	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
6	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	305	Simplecast	63
7	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	235	Spreaker	78
8	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	36	Unknown	79
9	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
10	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	380	Megaphone	58
11	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	366	Megaphone	52
12	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	451	RedCircle	59
13	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	219	RedCircle	48
14	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
15	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	287	Libsyn	48
16	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	25	Audioboom	63
17	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	243	Megaphone	38
18	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	125	Omny Studio	57
19	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
20	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	359	Libsyn	63
21	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
22	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	108	Acast	68
23	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	390	Megaphone	48
24	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
25	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	449	RedCircle	63
26	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	89
27	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	145	Simplecast	62
28	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	43	Acast	84
29	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
30	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	114	Megaphone	48
31	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	293	Spreaker	59
32	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	236	Spotify for Podcasters	52
34	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	149	Omny Studio	42
35	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	73
36	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
37	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
38	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1040	Spotify for Podcasters	22
39	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	44	Podbean	62
40	LoveLustLaw	LoveLustLaw	Society & Culture	49	Audioboom	52
41	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	237	Megaphone	49
42	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
43	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
44	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
45	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
46	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	226	Simplecast	58
47	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	40	Audioboom	48
48	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	151	Spreaker	48
49	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	102	Spotify for Podcasters	22
50	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
51	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
52	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	79
53	Cocktales with Kiki	Kiki Said So	Society & Culture	504	Spreaker	64
54	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	32	PRX	69
55	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
56	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
57	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
58	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	205	ART19	63
59	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	245	BBC	43
60	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	266	Captivate	58
61	Dear Alana,	Tenderfoot TV	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	69
62	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	268	Acast	53
63	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	188	Spotify for Podcasters	58
64	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	451	Omny Studio	59
65	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
66	Danielle To You 's Podcast	Danielle To You	Society & Culture	28	Buzzsprout	72
67	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
68	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
69	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	250	Buzzsprout	73
70	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
71	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
72	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	86	SoundOn	58
73	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	137	Megaphone	63
74	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	293	Audioboom	53
75	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	24	Acast	63
76	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	180	Megaphone	48
77	Notes from the Edge	bhju	Society & Culture	137	Spreaker	63
78	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	377	Acast	32
79	The Right-Sized Life with Amy Schmidt	Amy Schmidt	Society & Culture	235	Buzzsprout	53
80	The Hoffman Podcast	Hoffman Institute Foundation	Society & Culture	251	Blubrry	68
81	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	101	Simplecast	48
82	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	89	Megaphone	32
83	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	74
84	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	96	Acast	63
85	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	63	Audioboom	59
86	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
87	We've Got To Talk	Nicole Fonarow and Jolene Conway	Society & Culture	89	Captivate	68
88	in the meadow	vicinthemeadow	Society & Culture	177	Acast	48
89	The TED Interview	TED	Society & Culture	117	PRX	64
90	Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf	Astonishing Legends Productions	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	68
91	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	189	Acast	58
92	Voices of VYVGART	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	48
93	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	48
94	جناية	Mics مايكس	Society & Culture	121	Podeo	58
95	Spent Well Podcast	Katey and Dan Brigham	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	17
96	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
97	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	143	Acast	37
98	You Will Please Me	Dominatrix Eva Oh	Society & Culture	107	Spotify for Podcasters	48
99	矽谷夫妻Chitchatting	矽谷夫妻 Annie & Jack	Society & Culture	240	Spotify for Podcasters	43
100	The Girl Brain Edit	Caroline Beckham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	32

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