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 2026

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09/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 279

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:46:59

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. ABC News (5 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 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	861	Simplecast	53
3	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1125	WideOrbit	53
7	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
9	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
11	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
12	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
15	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
16	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
17	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
18	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
19	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
20	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
21	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
22	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
23	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
24	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
25	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
26	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
27	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
28	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	83
29	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
31	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
32	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
33	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
34	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
35	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
36	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
37	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
38	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
39	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
40	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
41	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
42	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
43	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
44	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
45	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
46	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
47	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
48	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
49	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	12	ART19	73
50	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
51	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
52	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
53	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
54	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
55	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
56	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	8	Omny Studio	42
57	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
58	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
59	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
60	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
61	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
62	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
63	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
64	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
65	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
66	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
67	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
68	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
69	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
70	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
71	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
72	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
73	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
74	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
75	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
76	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
77	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	225	Omny Studio	53
78	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
79	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
80	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
81	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
82	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	375	Audioboom	37
83	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
85	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
86	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
87	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
88	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
89	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
90	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
91	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
92	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
93	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
94	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
95	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
96	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
97	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
98	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
99	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	433	Omny Studio	48
100	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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