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 Sep 2026

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09/06/2026

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Episodes: 297

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:48:11

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. ABC News (4 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 (14 shows)

4. Audioboom (12 shows)

5. ART19 (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	853	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	885	Simplecast	68
4	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1114	WideOrbit	53
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	542	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
10	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	18	Simplecast	58
11	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
12	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
13	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
16	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
17	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	178	Simplecast	68
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	560	Simplecast	63
20	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
21	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
22	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	378	Spreaker	84
23	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	456	ART19	43
24	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
25	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
26	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	54	Audioboom	73
27	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
29	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
30	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
31	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	355	Megaphone	58
32	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
33	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
34	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
35	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
36	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
37	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
38	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
39	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
40	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
41	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
42	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
43	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
44	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
45	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
46	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
47	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	128	N/A	N/A
48	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
49	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	83	Acast	53
50	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	456	Libsyn	52
51	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
52	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
53	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
54	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
55	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
56	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
57	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
58	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	10	ART19	73
59	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
60	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	154	Simplecast	73
61	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	18	Megaphone	58
62	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
63	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	18	RSS.com	52
64	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
65	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	523	Megaphone	64
66	Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial	WBUR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	32
67	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
68	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	5	Omny Studio	42
69	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
70	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
71	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	407	Megaphone	73
72	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
73	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	365	Audioboom	37
74	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
75	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
76	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	358	Audioboom	68
77	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
78	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
79	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	52
80	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	226	WideOrbit	58
81	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
82	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
83	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
84	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
85	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	54	Megaphone	68
86	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
87	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	216	Omny Studio	53
88	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
89	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
90	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
91	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
92	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	548	Spotify for Podcasters	32
93	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
94	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	238	Megaphone	48
95	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
96	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
97	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
98	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
99	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	459	Audioboom	42
100	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	429	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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