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 02 May 2026

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05/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 304

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:47:14

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

4. NBC News (4 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (23 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	531	Simplecast	63
2	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	862	Simplecast	53
4	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	892	Simplecast	68
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	554	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1226	Omny Studio	38
9	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
10	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
12	Who Killed Roxanne?	Charles Dowdy	True Crime	8	Libsyn	63
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1230	Simplecast	58
14	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
15	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
16	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
17	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
20	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
21	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
22	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	370	ART19	58
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	544	ART19	58
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
25	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
26	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	51	Simplecast	69
27	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
29	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
30	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
31	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
32	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
33	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
34	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	158	Megaphone	48
35	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	461	Simplecast	68
36	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
37	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	492	ART19	52
38	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	424	Acast	43
39	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
40	Strangely	Always True Crime	True Crime	31	Acast	79
41	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
42	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
43	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
44	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
45	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
46	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	558	Simplecast	49
47	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
48	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
49	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	642	Audioboom	48
50	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	42	Omny Studio	83
51	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	233	ART19	53
52	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
53	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
54	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
55	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	297	Megaphone	63
56	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
57	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
58	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	853	Megaphone	69
59	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
60	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
61	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
62	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
63	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	442	Simplecast	68
64	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
65	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
66	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
67	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
68	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
69	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
70	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	332	Megaphone	69
71	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
72	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
73	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
74	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
75	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
76	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	166	Simplecast	79
77	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	389	Acast	38
78	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
79	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	233	WideOrbit	58
80	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
81	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
82	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
83	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
84	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
85	Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology	Investigator Slater	True Crime	235	ART19	58
86	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	195	WideOrbit	58
87	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1266	Megaphone	27
88	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	408	Audioboom	63
89	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
90	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	242	Megaphone	48
91	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	443	Simplecast	73
92	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
93	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
94	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
95	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
96	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
97	The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby	CBC + BBC World Service	True Crime	16	Triton Digital	59
98	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
99	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
100	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	131	WideOrbit	68

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