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 05 Mar 2026

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03/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 280

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. ABC News (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	534	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	875	Simplecast	53
3	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	899	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1140	WideOrbit	53
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	74	ART19	63
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	565	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1235	Omny Studio	38
10	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	185	Omny Studio	63
11	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
12	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	12	Megaphone	59
13	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
14	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	549	ART19	58
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	455	Simplecast	68
16	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	160	Megaphone	48
17	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	45	WideOrbit	62
18	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	372	ART19	58
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
20	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
21	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
22	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1217	Simplecast	58
23	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	494	ART19	52
24	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	463	Simplecast	68
25	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	978	Simplecast	59
26	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	361	Megaphone	58
27	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
28	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	569	Simplecast	63
29	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
30	Out of the Valley’s Shadow	Aziz Saad	True Crime	6	Podbean	58
31	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
32	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	60	Simplecast	73
33	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
34	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
35	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	427	Acast	43
36	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
37	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	647	Audioboom	48
39	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
40	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
41	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
42	Are You Captain Purple	Hilliard House Productions	True Crime	9	Podbean	63
43	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
44	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
45	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	564	Simplecast	49
46	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	296	Simplecast	63
47	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	241	ART19	53
48	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
49	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
50	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
51	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
52	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	193	Omny Studio	52
53	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
54	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	63
55	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
56	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	858	Megaphone	69
57	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	386	Audioboom	37
58	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	327	Triton Digital	58
59	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
60	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
61	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	75	Spreaker	79
62	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	70	Omny Studio	73
63	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	198	Megaphone	78
64	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	414	Megaphone	73
65	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	670	Audioboom	42
66	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	60	Megaphone	68
67	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	364	Audioboom	68
68	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
69	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
70	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
71	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
72	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	88	WideOrbit	58
73	Hush	Oregon Public Broadcasting	True Crime	21	Unknown	69
74	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
75	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
76	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
77	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	58
78	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	577	ART19	58
79	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	463	ART19	43
80	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	464	Audioboom	42
81	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
82	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
83	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	170	ART19	83
84	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	430	Megaphone	53
85	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
86	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
87	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	218	ART19	68
88	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	446	Simplecast	68
89	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	107	Triton Digital	53
90	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
91	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	392	Acast	38
92	Ghost Story	Wondery \| Pineapple Street Studios	True Crime	9	ART19	79
93	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
94	Best Case Worst Case	X-G Productions	True Crime	486	ART19	63
95	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
96	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
97	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
98	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	25	Megaphone	63
99	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
100	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	448	Simplecast	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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