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 Nov 2025

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11/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 281

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:44:26

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. NBC News (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. WideOrbit (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
3	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
4	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
6	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
7	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
8	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
9	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
11	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
12	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
13	The Preventionist	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	N/A	N/A
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
15	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
16	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
17	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
18	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
20	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
21	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
22	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
23	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
24	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
25	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
26	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
27	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
28	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
29	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
31	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
32	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
33	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
34	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
35	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
36	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
37	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
38	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
39	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
40	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
41	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	59	WideOrbit	62
42	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
43	Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy	Blanchard House / Curiouscast	True Crime	11	Megaphone	53
44	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
45	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
46	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
47	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
48	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
49	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
50	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
51	Wild Boys	Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	59
52	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
53	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
54	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
55	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
56	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
57	Le Monstre	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	69
58	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
59	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
60	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
61	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
62	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
63	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
64	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
65	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
66	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
67	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
68	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
69	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
70	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	143	WideOrbit	68
71	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
72	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
73	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
74	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
75	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
76	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
77	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
78	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
79	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
80	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
81	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	67	WideOrbit	62
82	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
83	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	316	Audioboom	73
84	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
85	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
86	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
87	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
88	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
89	Unravel	ABC Australia	True Crime	77	ABC Australia	58
90	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
91	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
92	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
93	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
94	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
95	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
96	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
97	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
98	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	365	Audioboom	58
99	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
100	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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