Apple Podcasts · United States · Sep 21, 2026

Podcast Charts

Daily updated Apple Podcasts rankings for the United States: every category, the episodes trending today, and 90-day trends for every show.

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#1

UN General Assembly Week, Trump's Triumphal Arch, Air Traffic Control AI

Up First from NPR · 13 min

#2

NFL Week 2, Jayden And Caleb Go Down, The Browns Win A Game, The Chargers Are Rock Bottom + Who's Back Of The Week

Pardon My Take · 3 h 21 min

#3

The Broken Chargers, Mahomes 3.0, Zombie Deshaun, the Masked Backup, First Coach Fired, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast · 1 h 51 min

#4

The Trump Administration Defangs the Endangered Species Act

The Daily · 24 min

#5

Intergenerational Space Travel

This American Life · 1 h 07 min

#6

MURDERED: Marina Ramos

Crime Junkie · 49 min

#7

Trump’s New Middle East Dilemma, and How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target Gamblers

The Headlines · 11 min

#8

Mr & Mrs Murder

20/20 · 1 h 25 min

#9

Fighting with Fox News feat. Jessica Tarlov

Pod Save America · 1 h 02 min

#10

Trump’s Greenland Power Move & Ed Sheeran Backlash Explodes | 9.21.26

Morning Wire · 19 min

#11

How a 1,000-Year-Old Tapestry Took London by Storm

The Daily · 34 min

#12

Inside Trump’s attacks on the White House press pool

Apple News Today · 14 min

Top 10 podcasts today

Overall Apple Podcasts chart · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

The Daily

The New York Times

2

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck

3

Pod Save America

Pod Save America

▲ 6
4

REAL AF with Andy Frisella

Andy Frisella

▲ 1
5

Dateline NBC

NBC News

▼ 1
6

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

▼ 3
7

The Dylan Gemelli Podcast

Dylan Gemelli

▲ 3
8

In The Dark

The New Yorker

▼ 2
9

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

▼ 1
10

Up First from NPR

NPR

▼ 3
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