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 04 Mar 2026

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03/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 269

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:43:28

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	531	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	862	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	892	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
5	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
6	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	554	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1226	Omny Studio	38
11	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	9	Megaphone	64
12	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	544	ART19	58
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
14	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
16	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	370	ART19	58
17	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	158	Megaphone	48
18	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
19	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	492	ART19	52
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
21	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
22	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	461	Simplecast	68
23	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1230	Simplecast	58
24	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
25	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
26	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
27	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
28	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
29	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
30	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
31	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
32	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	424	Acast	43
33	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
34	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
35	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
36	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	642	Audioboom	48
37	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
38	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
39	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
41	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
42	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	558	Simplecast	49
43	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
44	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
45	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
46	Hush	Oregon Public Broadcasting	True Crime	21	Unknown	69
47	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
48	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
49	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
50	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	42	Omny Studio	83
51	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
52	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	853	Megaphone	69
53	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
54	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
55	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	51	Simplecast	69
56	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
57	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	380	Audioboom	37
58	Are You Captain Purple	Hilliard House Productions	True Crime	9	Podbean	63
59	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
60	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
61	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	233	ART19	53
62	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
63	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
64	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
65	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
66	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	195	WideOrbit	58
67	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
68	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
69	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	215	ART19	68
70	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
71	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
72	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
73	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
74	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
75	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
76	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	389	Acast	38
77	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
78	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
79	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
80	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
81	Ghost Story	Wondery \| Pineapple Street Studios	True Crime	9	ART19	79
82	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
83	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
85	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
86	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
87	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
88	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
89	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	233	WideOrbit	58
90	Out of the Valley’s Shadow	Aziz Saad	True Crime	6	Podbean	58
91	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
92	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	422	Megaphone	53
93	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
94	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
95	Narco Warriors: Secrets From The Global Drug War Details temporarily unavailable	Narco Warriors: Secrets From The Global Drug War	True Crime	7	N/A	N/A
96	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	93	Unknown	63
97	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
98	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
99	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
100	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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