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 20 Oct 2026

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10/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 213

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:48:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Dear Media (3 shows)

3. Pionaire Podcasting (2 shows)

4. Sapphire Sandalo (2 shows)

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

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

3. Acast (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Audioboom (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	145	ART19	58
2	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	132	Omny Studio	63
3	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
4	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	26	Audioboom	63
5	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	306	Simplecast	63
6	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	30	WideOrbit	48
7	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	37	Unknown	79
8	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
9	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	38	Buzzsprout	48
10	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
11	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	235	Spreaker	78
12	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	288	Libsyn	48
13	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	220	RedCircle	48
14	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	368	Megaphone	52
15	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	381	Megaphone	58
16	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	454	RedCircle	59
17	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	109	Acast	68
18	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	360	Libsyn	63
19	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	44	Acast	84
20	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	57
21	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
22	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
23	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	237	Spotify for Podcasters	52
24	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	48
25	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	390	Megaphone	48
26	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
27	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	150	Omny Studio	42
28	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	89
29	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	451	RedCircle	63
30	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	146	Simplecast	62
31	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
32	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	244	Megaphone	38
33	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
34	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
35	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	49	Podbean	62
36	Cocktales with Kiki	Kiki Said So	Society & Culture	505	Spreaker	64
37	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	97	Acast	63
38	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	73
39	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	294	Spreaker	59
40	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	227	Simplecast	58
41	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	246	BBC	43
42	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
43	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	41	Audioboom	48
44	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
45	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
46	LoveLustLaw	LoveLustLaw	Society & Culture	50	Audioboom	52
47	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
48	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	102	Spotify for Podcasters	22
49	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	237	Megaphone	49
50	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1041	Spotify for Podcasters	22
51	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	267	Captivate	58
52	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	55	Omny Studio	48
53	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
54	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
55	Danielle To You 's Podcast	Danielle To You	Society & Culture	28	Buzzsprout	72
56	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
57	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
58	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
59	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
60	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	181	Megaphone	48
61	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	138	Megaphone	63
62	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	79
63	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
64	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	269	Acast	53
65	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	33	PRX	59
66	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	101	Simplecast	48
67	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
68	You Will Please Me	Dominatrix Eva Oh	Society & Culture	107	Spotify for Podcasters	48
69	The Chat- Life Unfiltered	Gracespiration	Society & Culture	50	Spotify for Podcasters	32
70	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	206	ART19	63
71	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	151	Spreaker	48
72	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	189	Spotify for Podcasters	58
73	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	293	Audioboom	53
74	Dear Alana,	Tenderfoot TV	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	69
75	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	90	Megaphone	32
76	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
77	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	451	Omny Studio	59
79	The Girl Brain Edit	Caroline Beckham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	32
80	We've Got To Talk	Nicole Fonarow and Jolene Conway	Society & Culture	89	Captivate	68
81	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	191	Acast	58
82	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
83	The TED Interview	TED	Society & Culture	117	PRX	64
84	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	377	Acast	32
85	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	250	Buzzsprout	73
86	Volume of Fire	Ryan Cleckner & Nishan Campbell	Society & Culture	3	Libsyn	68
87	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	74
88	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	86	SoundOn	58
89	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	63	Audioboom	59
90	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	569	Buzzsprout	53
91	Mostly Thriving Podcast with Amanda + TJ	Amanda and TJ Vernaci	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	17
92	Pregnantish	Andrea Syrtash	Society & Culture	73	Acast	63
93	Gritty Mamas with Julie Jeppson	Julie Jeppson	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	63
94	It's Always Something with Davis Roe	Davis Roe	Society & Culture	60	Megaphone	42
95	Breaking Social Norms	Isaac "Illuminati Watcher" Weishaupt & Josie Weishaupt	Society & Culture	290	Spreaker	53
96	in the meadow	vicinthemeadow	Society & Culture	178	Acast	48
97	The Hoffman Podcast	Hoffman Institute Foundation	Society & Culture	251	Blubrry	68
98	Notes from the Edge	bhju	Society & Culture	137	Spreaker	63
99	The Right-Sized Life with Amy Schmidt	Amy Schmidt	Society & Culture	235	Buzzsprout	53
100	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

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