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 Dec 2025

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12/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 295

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:46:10

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	853	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1115	WideOrbit	53
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
7	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
9	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
10	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	22	Megaphone	69
11	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
12	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
14	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
15	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
16	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
17	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
18	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
19	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
20	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
21	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
22	The Detective’s Dilemma	Casefile Presents	True Crime	10	Acast	43
23	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
24	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
25	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
26	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
27	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
28	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	560	Simplecast	63
29	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
30	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
31	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
32	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
33	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
34	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
35	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
36	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
37	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
38	Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	212	Omny Studio	63
39	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
40	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
41	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
42	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
43	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network	True Crime	23	N/A	N/A
44	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
45	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
46	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	846	Megaphone	69
47	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
48	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
49	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
50	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
51	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
52	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	54	Audioboom	73
53	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
54	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
55	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
56	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
57	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
58	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
59	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	83	Acast	53
60	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	162	Audioboom	53
61	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
62	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
63	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
64	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
65	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
66	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	358	Audioboom	68
67	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
68	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
69	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
70	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
71	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
72	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
73	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
74	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
75	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	452	Omny Studio	63
76	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	163	ART19	83
77	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
78	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
79	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	73
80	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
81	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
82	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
83	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
84	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
85	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
86	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
87	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
88	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
89	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
90	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
92	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
93	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
94	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
95	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	158	Megaphone	58
96	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	238	Megaphone	48
97	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	497	Megaphone	43
98	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
99	What Happened to Holly Bobo?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
100	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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