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 21 Oct 2026

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10/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 217

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:48:53

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Sapphire Sandalo (2 shows)

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

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Acast (8 shows)

5. Audioboom (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	141	ART19	58
2	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	145	Simplecast	62
3	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	132	Omny Studio	63
4	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	25	Audioboom	63
5	What We Spend	Audacy	Society & Culture	30	WideOrbit	48
6	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	305	Simplecast	63
7	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
8	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
9	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	36	Unknown	79
10	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
11	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
12	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
13	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	219	RedCircle	48
14	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	287	Libsyn	48
15	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	235	Spreaker	78
16	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	366	Megaphone	52
17	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	451	RedCircle	59
18	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	380	Megaphone	58
19	CIRCULOS INFINITOS	Vidal Estévez	Education	68	Buzzsprout	73
20	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	108	Acast	68
21	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	43	Acast	84
22	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	114	Megaphone	48
23	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	243	Megaphone	38
24	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	96	Acast	63
25	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	236	Spotify for Podcasters	52
26	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	149	Omny Studio	42
27	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
28	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
29	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	390	Megaphone	48
30	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	125	Omny Studio	57
31	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	449	RedCircle	63
33	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	359	Libsyn	63
34	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
35	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	44	Podbean	62
36	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
37	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	89
38	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
39	Cocktales with Kiki	Kiki Said So	Society & Culture	504	Spreaker	64
40	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	226	Simplecast	58
41	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	137	Megaphone	63
42	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	32	PRX	69
43	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	293	Spreaker	59
44	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	73
45	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
46	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
47	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
48	LoveLustLaw	LoveLustLaw	Society & Culture	49	Audioboom	52
49	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
50	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	188	Spotify for Podcasters	58
51	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	205	ART19	63
52	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	245	BBC	43
53	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	102	Spotify for Podcasters	22
54	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	266	Captivate	58
55	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	268	Acast	53
56	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1040	Spotify for Podcasters	22
57	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
58	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	180	Megaphone	48
59	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	40	Audioboom	48
60	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
61	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
62	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	237	Megaphone	49
63	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
64	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	451	Omny Studio	59
65	B*tch, Listen!	Imani Gandy - Rewire News Group	Society & Culture	22	Simplecast	68
66	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
67	Stories with Sapphire	Sapphire Sandalo	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	53
68	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	189	Acast	58
69	Danielle To You 's Podcast	Danielle To You	Society & Culture	28	Buzzsprout	72
70	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	89	Megaphone	32
71	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	79
72	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	151	Spreaker	48
73	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	143	Acast	37
74	The Chat- Life Unfiltered	Gracespiration	Society & Culture	50	Spotify for Podcasters	32
75	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
76	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
77	Mostly Thriving Podcast with Amanda + TJ	Amanda and TJ Vernaci	Society & Culture	38	Spotify for Podcasters	17
78	Gritty Mamas with Julie Jeppson	Julie Jeppson	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	53
79	The Colion Noir Podcast	Colion Noir	Society & Culture	101	Simplecast	48
80	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
81	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	293	Audioboom	53
82	Dear Alana,	Tenderfoot TV	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	69
83	You Will Please Me	Dominatrix Eva Oh	Society & Culture	107	Spotify for Podcasters	48
84	The TED Interview	TED	Society & Culture	117	PRX	64
85	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
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	여둘톡	여자 둘이 토크하고 있습니다	Society & Culture	209	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	The Girl Brain Edit	Caroline Beckham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	32
89	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	250	Buzzsprout	73
90	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	377	Acast	32
91	Breaking Social Norms	Isaac "Illuminati Watcher" Weishaupt & Josie Weishaupt	Society & Culture	290	Spreaker	53
92	Talk To Me Sis	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	63	Audioboom	59
93	Girl Stop Playin \| #1 Podcast for Black Women	KOEREYELLE, Personal Development Coach	Society & Culture	414	RedCircle	43
94	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	567	Buzzsprout	53
95	Volume of Fire	Ryan Cleckner & Nishan Campbell	Society & Culture	3	Libsyn	68
96	Caribbean Mystics	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	66	Megaphone	74
97	We've Got To Talk	Nicole Fonarow and Jolene Conway	Society & Culture	89	Captivate	68
98	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	86	SoundOn	58
99	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	470	N/A	N/A
100	Artifacts of Grief	Snack Labs	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63

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