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 Nov 2026

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11/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 258

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:45:21

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. ABC News (5 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. WideOrbit (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
3	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	902	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1147	WideOrbit	53
6	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	63
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	35	Omny Studio	63
9	Deceived: The Daybell Story	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	3	Unknown	58
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	569	Simplecast	57
11	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
12	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1239	Omny Studio	38
13	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	63
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1221	Simplecast	58
16	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
17	My Mom’s Murder	AYR Media	True Crime	8	ART19	53
18	Heart	Apple TV / Plan B / Blanchard House	True Crime	6	ART19	73
19	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	69
20	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	13	Captivate	58
21	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
22	Over My Dead Body	Audible Original	True Crime	19	ART19	69
23	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
24	Ada	Casefile Presents	True Crime	28	Acast	69
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
26	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
27	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
28	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
29	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	7	WideOrbit	48
30	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	60	WideOrbit	62
31	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
32	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
33	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
34	The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story	ABC News	True Crime	6	Megaphone	42
35	Morrison Mysteries	NBC News	True Crime	23	Simplecast	69
36	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
37	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
38	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
39	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
40	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	73
41	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
42	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
43	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
44	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
45	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
46	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	567	Simplecast	49
47	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	674	Audioboom	42
48	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
49	BABY	Particle Entertainment and Wavland	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
50	The Slippery	Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge	True Crime	56	Megaphone	53
51	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
52	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	9	Megaphone	58
53	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
54	The Gilded Rage	AYR Media	True Crime	5	RedCircle	63
55	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	650	Audioboom	48
56	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
57	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	247	ART19	53
58	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
59	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
60	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
61	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	454	Simplecast	73
62	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	18	ART19	63
63	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
64	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	63
65	Unsolved Mysteries	Unsolved Media, Inc. + Audacy	True Crime	96	WideOrbit	48
66	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
67	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	980	Simplecast	59
68	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
69	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	53
70	Heist at the Louvre	ABC News	True Crime	5	Megaphone	53
71	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
72	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	73
73	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
74	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
75	Bad Blood: The Final Chapter	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	53
76	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
77	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
78	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
79	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	416	Megaphone	73
80	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
81	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
82	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
83	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	183	Simplecast	79
84	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
85	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
86	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
87	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
88	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
89	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
90	Lost Hills	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	51	Omny Studio	63
91	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	575	Spotify for Podcasters	32
92	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
93	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
94	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	76	ART19	63
95	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	58
96	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
97	Who Killed Angel Harris?	ID	True Crime	36	Acast	58
98	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
99	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	248	Megaphone	48
100	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	26	Megaphone	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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