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 May 2026

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05/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 301

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:48:08

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

4. NBC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (24 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (11 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	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	892	Simplecast	68
7	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	554	Simplecast	57
9	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1226	Omny Studio	38
11	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
12	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	370	ART19	58
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1230	Simplecast	58
14	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
16	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
17	Who Killed Roxanne?	Charles Dowdy	True Crime	8	Libsyn	63
18	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	158	Megaphone	48
19	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	424	Acast	43
20	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
22	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
23	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
24	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	544	ART19	58
25	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
26	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
27	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	461	Simplecast	68
28	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
29	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
30	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	492	ART19	52
31	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
32	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
33	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
34	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
35	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
36	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
37	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
38	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	233	ART19	53
39	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	51	Simplecast	69
40	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
41	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
42	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	558	Simplecast	49
44	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
45	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
46	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	853	Megaphone	69
47	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	42	Omny Studio	83
48	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
49	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	297	Megaphone	63
50	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
51	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
52	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
53	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
54	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
55	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	642	Audioboom	48
56	Strangely	Always True Crime	True Crime	31	Acast	79
57	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
58	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
59	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
60	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
61	Classic City Crime	Classic City Crime	True Crime	33	Spotify for Podcasters	33
62	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	442	Simplecast	68
63	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
64	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
65	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
66	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
67	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
68	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
69	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
70	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
71	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
72	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	389	Acast	38
73	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
74	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
75	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
76	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
77	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
78	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	443	Simplecast	73
79	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
80	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	233	WideOrbit	58
81	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
82	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
83	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
84	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
85	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
86	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	332	Megaphone	69
87	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
88	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	195	WideOrbit	58
89	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
90	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
91	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
92	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
93	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	166	Simplecast	79
94	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
95	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
96	Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology	Investigator Slater	True Crime	235	ART19	58
97	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
98	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1266	Megaphone	27
99	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	557	Spotify for Podcasters	32
100	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	408	Audioboom	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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