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 07 Jan 2026

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01/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 274

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:44:04

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Crime House (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. WideOrbit (9 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	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
6	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
11	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
12	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
13	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
14	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
15	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
16	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
17	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
19	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
20	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
22	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
23	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
24	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
25	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
26	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
27	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
28	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
29	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
30	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
31	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
32	One of Their Own	KPBS	True Crime	7	StreamGuys	59
33	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
34	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
35	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
36	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
37	Toil and Trouble	Always True Crime	True Crime	8	Acast	59
38	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
39	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
40	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
41	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
42	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
43	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
44	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
45	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
46	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
47	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
48	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
49	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
50	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	57	WideOrbit	62
51	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
52	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
53	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
54	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
55	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
56	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
57	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
58	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
59	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
60	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
61	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
62	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
63	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
64	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
65	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
66	Island Crime	Laura Palmer	True Crime	110	Acast	59
67	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
68	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
69	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
70	My Fugitive Dad	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	7	Megaphone	69
71	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
72	Morrison Mysteries	NBC News	True Crime	19	Simplecast	69
73	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
74	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
75	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
76	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
77	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
78	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
79	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
80	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
81	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	128	WideOrbit	68
82	What Happened in Nashville	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	63
83	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
84	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
85	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	54	WideOrbit	62
86	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
87	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
88	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	8	Triton Digital	63
89	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
90	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
91	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
92	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
93	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
94	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	312	Audioboom	73
95	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
96	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
97	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
98	Cup Of Justice	LUNASHARK	True Crime	193	Megaphone	94
99	Killer Kin	ID	True Crime	61	Acast	59
100	BETH'S DEAD	Deadline Podcast	True Crime	11	Spreaker	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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