Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - True Crime

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 01 Mar 2026

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03/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 305

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:46:05

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	876	Simplecast	53
3	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1142	WideOrbit	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	900	Simplecast	68
5	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	185	Omny Studio	63
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	566	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1236	Omny Studio	38
9	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
10	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1217	Simplecast	58
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	456	Simplecast	68
12	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	12	Megaphone	59
13	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
14	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
15	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
16	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
17	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	570	Simplecast	63
18	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	52
19	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
20	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	550	ART19	58
21	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
22	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
23	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
24	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
26	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	294	Simplecast	63
27	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
28	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
29	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
30	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
31	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
32	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	243	ART19	53
33	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
34	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
35	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
36	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
37	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
38	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	160	Megaphone	48
39	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
40	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
41	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
42	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
43	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
44	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
45	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
46	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
47	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
48	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
49	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	671	Audioboom	42
50	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	859	Megaphone	69
51	Hush	Oregon Public Broadcasting	True Crime	21	Unknown	69
52	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
53	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
54	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
55	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	63
56	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	648	Audioboom	48
57	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	392	Acast	38
58	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	446	Simplecast	68
59	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
60	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
61	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	193	Omny Studio	52
62	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
63	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
64	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	364	Audioboom	68
65	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	58
66	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	70	Omny Studio	73
67	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
68	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
69	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
70	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
71	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	327	Triton Digital	58
72	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
73	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	198	Megaphone	78
74	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
75	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	411	Audioboom	63
76	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
77	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
78	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	449	Simplecast	73
79	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	335	Megaphone	69
80	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
81	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
82	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
83	Creeps and Crimes Details temporarily unavailable	Taylar Fetzner, Morgan Harris	True Crime	406	ART19	63
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	25	Megaphone	63
85	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
86	Everything They Missed	Stephanie Tinsley	True Crime	20	ART19	53
87	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	243	Megaphone	48
88	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
89	Hell and Gone	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	170	Omny Studio	84
90	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	142	WideOrbit	68
91	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	88	WideOrbit	58
92	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
93	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
94	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	730	Megaphone	49
95	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
96	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
97	Out of the Valley’s Shadow	Aziz Saad	True Crime	6	Podbean	58
98	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
99	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
100	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	562	Spotify for Podcasters	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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