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 Nov 2026

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11/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 265

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:45:38

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. ABC News (5 shows)

4. NBC News (5 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. WideOrbit (10 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	879	Simplecast	53
3	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	63
4	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	902	Simplecast	68
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1148	WideOrbit	53
7	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	63
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	35	Omny Studio	63
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	570	Simplecast	57
10	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	63
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1240	Omny Studio	38
12	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
13	Deceived: The Daybell Story	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	3	Unknown	58
14	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
15	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1222	Simplecast	58
17	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
18	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
19	My Mom’s Murder	AYR Media	True Crime	8	ART19	53
20	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
21	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	13	Captivate	58
22	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	69
23	Heart	Apple TV / Plan B / Blanchard House	True Crime	6	ART19	73
24	Over My Dead Body	Audible Original	True Crime	19	ART19	69
25	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	572	Simplecast	63
26	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
27	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
28	Ada	Casefile Presents	True Crime	28	Acast	69
29	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
31	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	7	WideOrbit	48
32	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
33	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
34	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
35	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	60	WideOrbit	62
36	The Slippery	Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge	True Crime	56	Megaphone	53
37	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	73
38	The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story	ABC News	True Crime	6	Megaphone	42
39	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
41	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
42	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
43	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
44	Morrison Mysteries	NBC News	True Crime	23	Simplecast	69
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	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
49	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
50	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
51	BABY	Particle Entertainment and Wavland	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
52	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
53	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	247	ART19	53
54	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
55	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
56	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	650	Audioboom	48
57	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	9	Megaphone	58
58	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	455	Simplecast	73
59	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
60	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	207	WideOrbit	63
61	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	73	Omny Studio	73
62	The Gilded Rage	AYR Media	True Crime	5	RedCircle	63
63	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
64	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	982	Simplecast	59
65	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
66	Unsolved Mysteries	Unsolved Media, Inc. + Audacy	True Crime	96	WideOrbit	48
67	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	63
68	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
69	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	195	Omny Studio	52
70	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	18	ART19	63
71	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
72	Heist at the Louvre	ABC News	True Crime	5	Megaphone	53
73	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	53
74	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
75	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	249	Megaphone	48
76	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	184	Simplecast	79
77	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	416	Megaphone	73
78	Bad Blood: The Final Chapter	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	53
79	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
80	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
81	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
82	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
83	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
84	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
85	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
86	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
87	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	575	Spotify for Podcasters	32
88	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
89	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
90	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	76	ART19	63
91	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	200	Megaphone	78
92	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	50	WideOrbit	62
93	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
94	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
95	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
96	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
97	Scamanda	Lionsgate Sound	True Crime	20	Acast	79
98	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
99	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	466	ART19	43
100	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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