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 Oct 2026

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10/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 256

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:44:16

Top 5 authors

1. ABC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (6 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. Audible (5 shows)

5. Crime House (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (15 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	532	Simplecast	63
2	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	4	WideOrbit	48
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	864	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	893	Simplecast	68
5	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	26	Megaphone	69
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	My Mom’s Murder	Audible	True Crime	4	ART19	53
8	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1130	WideOrbit	53
9	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
10	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	450	Simplecast	68
11	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	555	Simplecast	57
12	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
13	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1227	Omny Studio	38
14	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	8	Captivate	42
15	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	159	Megaphone	48
16	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	43	Omny Studio	83
17	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
18	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	370	ART19	58
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1211	Simplecast	58
21	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	424	Acast	43
22	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
23	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	183	Simplecast	63
24	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
25	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	359	Megaphone	58
26	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
27	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
29	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
30	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	72	ART19	63
31	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	55	WideOrbit	62
32	Heist at the Louvre	ABC News	True Crime	3	Megaphone	53
33	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	8	Megaphone	58
34	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
35	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
36	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
37	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
38	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
39	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
41	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	58	Simplecast	73
42	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	22	Megaphone	58
43	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
44	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	93	Unknown	63
45	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	544	ART19	58
46	The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story	ABC News	True Crime	2	Megaphone	42
47	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
48	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	14	ART19	63
49	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
50	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	86	Acast	53
51	Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia	TNT / Cadence13	True Crime	11	Megaphone	63
52	BABY	Particle Entertainment and Wavland	True Crime	4	Megaphone	53
53	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
54	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
55	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	196	WideOrbit	58
56	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	412	Megaphone	73
57	Unrestorable	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	19	Omny Studio	53
58	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	167	ART19	83
59	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
60	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
61	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
62	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	972	Simplecast	59
63	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	215	ART19	68
64	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
65	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	58
66	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
68	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
69	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
70	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	297	Megaphone	63
71	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	643	Audioboom	48
72	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	234	ART19	53
73	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	575	ART19	58
74	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
75	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	13	Acast	69
76	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	167	Simplecast	79
77	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
78	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	559	Simplecast	49
79	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	333	Megaphone	69
80	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	313	Audioboom	73
81	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	463	Audioboom	42
82	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	63
83	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	443	Simplecast	73
84	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
85	Doctor’s Orders	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	2	Megaphone	63
86	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
87	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	442	Simplecast	68
88	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
89	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
90	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
91	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
92	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	461	ART19	43
93	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	78
94	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
95	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
96	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
97	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
98	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	435	Omny Studio	48
99	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	408	Audioboom	63
100	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68

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.

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