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 Aug 2026

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08/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 303

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:48:35

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. ABC News (5 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. Audible (4 shows)

5. Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (11 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	857	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1120	WideOrbit	53
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
6	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	547	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1220	Omny Studio	38
9	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	445	Audioboom	63
10	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
11	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	563	Simplecast	63
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
13	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	368	ART19	58
14	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
15	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
16	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
17	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
18	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
19	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
20	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
21	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
22	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	540	ART19	58
24	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	422	Acast	43
25	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	405	Megaphone	63
26	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
27	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
28	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
29	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
30	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
31	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	490	ART19	52
32	The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani	ESPN	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
33	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
34	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
35	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
36	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
37	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
38	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
39	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	553	Simplecast	49
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
41	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
42	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
43	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
44	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
45	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
46	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
47	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
48	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	409	Megaphone	73
49	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
50	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
51	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
52	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	461	Audioboom	42
53	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	226	ART19	53
54	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
55	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
56	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	191	WideOrbit	58
57	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
58	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
59	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	228	WideOrbit	58
60	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	573	ART19	58
61	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	295	Megaphone	63
62	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A
63	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
64	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
65	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	39	Omny Studio	83
66	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
67	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
68	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
69	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
70	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
71	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
72	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	178	Megaphone	68
73	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
74	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
75	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
76	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
77	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
78	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
79	Legally Brunette Details temporarily unavailable	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	222	Omny Studio	53
80	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	438	Simplecast	68
81	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
82	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	68
83	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
84	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	311	Audioboom	73
85	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
86	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	551	Spotify for Podcasters	32
87	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
88	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
89	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
90	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1254	Megaphone	27
91	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	406	Audioboom	63
92	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	419	Megaphone	53
93	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
94	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
95	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
96	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
97	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	12	Acast	69
98	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
99	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	158	Simplecast	73
100	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Not Your Mom Media	True Crime	623	Libsyn	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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