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 06 Feb 2026

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

02/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 291

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:46:45

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. ART19 (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 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	862	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	892	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
7	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	554	Simplecast	57
9	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1226	Omny Studio	38
11	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	380	Audioboom	37
12	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
13	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	543	ART19	58
14	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1211	Simplecast	58
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
16	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
17	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
18	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
19	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
20	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
22	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
23	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
24	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
25	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
26	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
27	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	158	Megaphone	48
28	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
29	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
30	Toil and Trouble	Always True Crime	True Crime	8	Acast	59
31	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
32	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
33	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
34	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
35	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
36	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
37	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
38	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
39	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
40	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
41	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	232	ART19	53
42	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
43	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
44	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
45	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	51	Simplecast	69
46	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
47	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
48	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
49	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
50	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	642	Audioboom	48
51	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
52	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
53	The Conspiracy Files	Bloody FM	True Crime	85	Simplecast	74
54	Codename Badger	Always True Crime	True Crime	11	Acast	79
55	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
56	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	558	Simplecast	49
57	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
58	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	852	Megaphone	69
59	The Consult: Real FBI Profilers	PodcastOne	True Crime	145	Nox Solutions	38
60	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
61	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
62	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
63	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
64	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
65	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	389	Acast	38
66	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
67	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
68	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
69	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
70	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	443	Simplecast	73
71	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
72	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
73	I Rest My Case	Pixiu Podcasts	True Crime	6	Acast	59
74	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
75	Hell and Gone	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	170	Omny Studio	84
76	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
77	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
78	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
79	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	54	WideOrbit	62
80	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	57	Megaphone	68
81	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
82	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
83	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
84	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
85	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	332	Megaphone	69
86	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	422	Megaphone	53
87	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
88	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
89	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
90	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	442	Simplecast	68
91	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	153	Simplecast	68
92	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	233	WideOrbit	58
93	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
94	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	242	Megaphone	48
95	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
96	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
97	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
98	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	130	WideOrbit	68
99	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
100	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in USA.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice