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 25 Aug 2026

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08/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 246

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:48:12

Top 5 authors

1. Dear Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Thomas FreeMe (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

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

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Acast (8 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	147	ART19	58
2	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	306	Simplecast	63
3	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	26	Audioboom	63
4	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
5	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
6	Bearing Scars	Michael Ertel	Society & Culture	21	Unknown	59
7	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	236	Spreaker	78
8	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	37	Unknown	79
9	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	369	Megaphone	52
10	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	381	Megaphone	58
11	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
12	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	30	Megaphone	89
13	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	32
14	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
15	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
16	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	220	RedCircle	48
17	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	288	Libsyn	48
18	Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic	Shawna and LaLa	Society & Culture	151	Spreaker	48
19	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	452	RedCircle	63
21	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	58
22	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
23	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	38	Buzzsprout	48
24	Different Points Podcast	Roy Coughlan & Catherine Llewellyn at Podfather Network	Society & Culture	51	Podbean	62
25	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	44	Acast	84
26	Thanks For Asking	Feelings & Co.	Society & Culture	244	Megaphone	38
27	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	146	Simplecast	62
28	Keep it Positive, Sweetie	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	150	Omny Studio	42
29	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	109	Acast	68
30	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	391	Megaphone	48
31	Red Pilled America	Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
32	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1044	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	238	Spotify for Podcasters	52
34	The Cozy Chat Podcast	Aliyah's Corner	Society & Culture	103	Spotify for Podcasters	22
35	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
36	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	295	Spreaker	59
37	TANGENT with Tanner Devore	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	90	Megaphone	32
38	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	117	Megaphone	48
39	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	98	Acast	63
40	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	246	BBC	43
41	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	96	Megaphone	68
42	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
43	GenX Stories	Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes	Society & Culture	142	Buzzsprout	68
44	Let's Try This Again with B. Simone	Dear Media	Society & Culture	138	Megaphone	63
45	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
46	The Comeback Era with Caroline and Kayla	Caroline and Kayla	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	62
47	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	182	Megaphone	48
48	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	127	Omny Studio	57
49	Be There in Five	Kate Kennedy	Society & Culture	360	Libsyn	63
50	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
51	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	206	ART19	63
52	Fruit: The Cost of Legacy	Hoorae Media, Issa Rae Productions, Raedio LLc	Society & Culture	26	Simplecast	53
53	Girlscamp	Hayley Rawle	Society & Culture	238	Megaphone	49
54	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
55	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
56	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
57	Chins & Giggles	Karina Garcia & Mayra Garcia	Society & Culture	227	Simplecast	58
58	Life Shift™ \| Pivotal Moments & Life Change	Matt Gilhooly	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	69
59	AA Grapevine's Podcast	AA Grapevine, Inc.	Society & Culture	267	Captivate	58
60	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	270	Acast	53
61	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	601	Audiomeans	83
62	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
63	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	24	Acast	63
64	Good Moms Bad Choices	The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	451	Omny Studio	59
65	Under the Influence with Jo Piazza	Jo Piazza	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	48
66	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	33	PRX	59
67	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	191	Acast	58
68	禎甄要chat內	胡小禎 & 李佩甄	Society & Culture	87	SoundOn	58
69	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
70	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	Tell Me A Ghost Story	Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story	Society & Culture	93	Spotify for Podcasters	73
72	Note to Self	Dear Media	Society & Culture	269	ART19	68
73	پادکست باضیا - Ba Ziya Podcast	Ali Ziya	Society & Culture	143	Acast	37
74	The Thomas FreeMe Show: From Prison to Prosperity!	Thomas FreeMe	Society & Culture	241	WideOrbit	52
75	The Mortified Podcast	Mortified Media and Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	49
76	The Ugly Sister	Kendra Jaymes	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	22
77	Indelibly Marked	Dominique Kuykendall	Society & Culture	148	Buzzsprout	53
78	The Sister Circle Podcast	Chrystal Evans Hurst	Society & Culture	51	Libsyn	38
79	The Paranormal 60 Network	Dave Schrader	Society & Culture	1000	Simplecast	58
80	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
81	te compré flores	mara urbina	Society & Culture	114	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	پادکست قصه گو Ghesegoo	Amin Ardani, Marzieh Sadeqi	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	79
83	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	475	Megaphone	53
84	NPE Stories	Lily Wood	Society & Culture	250	Buzzsprout	73
85	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	189	Spotify for Podcasters	58
86	Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins	Pionaire Podcasting	Society & Culture	41	Audioboom	48
87	To All the Men I've Tolerated Before	To All The Men I've Tolerated	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
89	加州101	加州101	other	109	lizhi.fm	38
90	Dear Alana,	Tenderfoot TV	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	69
91	The Girl Next Door Podcast	Kelsey Wharton and Erica Ladd	Society & Culture	378	Acast	32
92	It's Going To Be OK	Feelings & Co	Society & Culture	464	Megaphone	68
93	Stories That Live In Us	Crista Cowan \| The Barefoot Genealogist	Society & Culture	137	Buzzsprout	83
94	The Imagination	Emma Katherine	Society & Culture	569	Buzzsprout	53
95	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
96	Cut the Camera with the Sturniolo Triplets	Sturniolo Triplets	Society & Culture	39	Megaphone	63
97	Erika de la Vega - En Defensa Propia	Erika De la Vega \| Sonoro	Society & Culture	376	Simplecast	63
98	See You Sunday	Jasmine Shah	Society & Culture	293	Audioboom	53
99	جناية	Mics مايكس	Society & Culture	122	Podeo	58
100	Frankie and Jess Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Frankie and Jess	Personal Journals	473	N/A	N/A

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