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 Sep 2025

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09/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 248

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:42:01

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. audiochuck (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
2	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
3	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
4	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	853	Simplecast	53
5	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
6	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
7	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
8	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
9	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1115	WideOrbit	53
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
11	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
12	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
13	Stolen Voices of Dole Valley	Lemonada Media	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	53
14	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
15	Who Took Misty Copsey?	ID	True Crime	31	Acast	69
16	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	124	WideOrbit	68
17	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
18	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
19	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
21	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
22	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
23	The Hunter	BBC Studios	True Crime	7	ART19	69
24	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
25	Camp Shame	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	69
26	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
27	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	560	Simplecast	63
28	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
29	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
30	Devil in the Desert	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	69
31	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
32	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
33	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	154	Simplecast	73
34	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
35	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
36	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	846	Megaphone	69
37	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
38	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	22	Megaphone	69
39	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
40	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
41	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
42	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
43	The Mystic and The Mayor	Wondery	True Crime	9	ART19	59
44	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
45	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
46	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
47	Lore and Crime	Diego DM	True Crime	9	Podbean	58
48	The Real Killer	iHeartPodcasts and AYR Media	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	79
49	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
50	The Retrievals	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	Simplecast	79
51	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
52	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
53	American Criminal	Airship & Evergreen Podcasts	True Crime	140	Megaphone	69
54	The Deck Investigates	audiochuck	True Crime	34	Simplecast	89
55	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
56	The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby	CBC + BBC World Service	True Crime	16	Triton Digital	59
57	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
58	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
59	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
60	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
61	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
62	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
63	Stalked	BBC Sounds	True Crime	13	BBC	53
64	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
65	The Fight of My Life	Cadence Productions	True Crime	15	Buzzsprout	63
66	What Happened to Holly Bobo?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
67	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
68	Big Time	Apple TV+ / Campside Media	True Crime	15	ART19	73
69	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
70	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
71	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
72	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	73
73	Over My Dead Body	Wondery	True Crime	44	ART19	79
74	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	8	Triton Digital	63
75	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
76	Another Fucking Horror Podcast	Monique Sanchez and Amy Traydon	True Crime	279	Spotify for Podcasters	22
77	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
78	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
79	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
80	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
81	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
82	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
83	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	64	Omny Studio	68
84	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	238	Megaphone	48
85	Scamtown	Apple TV+ / FunMeter	True Crime	12	ART19	63
86	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
87	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
88	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
89	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
90	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	158	Megaphone	58
91	Law & Order: Criminal Justice System - Season 1 & Season 2	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	58
92	Unlawful Acts	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	13	Megaphone	59
93	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
94	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	89	Unknown	63
95	Blood Vines	Foxtopus Ink	True Crime	9	ART19	69
96	Scamanda	Lionsgate Sound	True Crime	18	Megaphone	64
97	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
98	THREE	audiochuck	True Crime	22	Simplecast	73
99	KAREN: THE RETRIAL	Law&Crime \| Wondery	True Crime	20	ART19	79
100	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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