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 Sep 2025

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09/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 281

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:43:54

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. ABC News (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Crime House (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
2	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
3	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
4	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
5	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
6	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
7	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
8	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
9	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
10	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
11	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
12	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
13	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
14	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
15	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
16	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
17	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
18	Who Killed Angel Harris?	ID	True Crime	36	Acast	58
19	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
20	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
21	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
22	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
23	Stolen Voices of Dole Valley	Lemonada Media	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	53
24	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
25	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
26	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
27	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	143	WideOrbit	68
28	The Hunter	BBC Studios	True Crime	7	ART19	69
29	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
30	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
31	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
32	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
33	Camp Shame	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	69
34	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
35	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
36	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
37	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
38	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
39	The Fight of My Life	Cadence Productions	True Crime	15	Buzzsprout	63
40	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
41	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
42	Julie's Gone	Casefile Presents	True Crime	8	Acast	59
43	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
44	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
45	The Rachel Cancer Scam	The Messenger	True Crime	48	ART19	83
46	Devil in the Desert	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	69
47	The Deck Investigates	audiochuck	True Crime	34	Simplecast	89
48	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
49	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
50	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
51	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
52	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
53	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
54	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
55	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
56	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
57	The Retrievals	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	12	Simplecast	79
58	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
59	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	181	Simplecast	79
60	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
61	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
62	The Mystic and The Mayor	Wondery	True Crime	9	ART19	59
63	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
64	Lore and Crime	Diego DM	True Crime	9	Podbean	58
65	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
66	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
67	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
68	What Happened to Holly Bobo?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
69	The Real Killer	iHeartPodcasts and AYR Media	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	79
70	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
71	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
72	The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby	CBC + BBC World Service	True Crime	16	Triton Digital	59
73	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
74	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
75	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
76	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
77	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
78	Shadow Kingdom	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	53
79	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
80	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
81	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
82	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
83	Big Time	Apple TV+ / Campside Media	True Crime	15	ART19	73
84	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
85	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
86	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
87	Another Fucking Horror Podcast	Monique Sanchez and Amy Traydon	True Crime	279	Spotify for Podcasters	22
88	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
89	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
90	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
91	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
92	American Criminal	Airship & Evergreen Podcasts	True Crime	140	Megaphone	69
93	Under Cover of Knight	Apple TV+ / Spoke Media	True Crime	12	ART19	83
94	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
95	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1272	Megaphone	27
96	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
97	Scamtown	Apple TV+ / FunMeter	True Crime	12	ART19	63
98	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
99	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
100	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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