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 Mar 2026

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03/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 313

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:45:30

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. ART19 (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	534	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	931	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	914	Simplecast	68
4	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1157	WideOrbit	53
6	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	63
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	573	Simplecast	57
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1236	Omny Studio	38
10	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	79	ART19	63
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	561	Megaphone	38
12	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
13	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	549	ART19	58
14	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	12	Megaphone	59
15	Out of the Valley’s Shadow	Aziz Saad	True Crime	6	Podbean	58
16	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1239	Simplecast	58
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	573	Simplecast	68
19	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
21	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	45	WideOrbit	62
22	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	175	Megaphone	48
23	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
24	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	372	ART19	58
25	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
26	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
27	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	500	Megaphone	63
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
29	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	570	Simplecast	63
30	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	1142	Simplecast	59
31	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	296	Simplecast	63
32	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
33	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	493	Megaphone	58
34	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
35	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
36	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
37	Are You Captain Purple	Hilliard House Productions	True Crime	9	Podbean	63
38	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
39	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
40	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
41	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	78	Megaphone	69
42	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	71	Simplecast	73
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	734	Simplecast	49
44	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	818	ART19	53
45	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	480	Acast	43
46	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
47	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
48	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	259	WideOrbit	63
49	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
50	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	667	Audioboom	42
51	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
52	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	331	Triton Digital	58
53	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	858	Megaphone	69
54	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
55	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
56	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
57	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
58	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
59	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
60	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	193	Omny Studio	52
61	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
62	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
63	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	647	Audioboom	48
64	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	218	WideOrbit	58
65	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	141	Omny Studio	73
66	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
67	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
68	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	789	ART19	68
69	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
70	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
71	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
72	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
73	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	454	Simplecast	68
74	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
75	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	481	Megaphone	73
76	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	392	Acast	38
77	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	205	Megaphone	78
78	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	334	Megaphone	69
79	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
80	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	364	Audioboom	68
81	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
82	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
83	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	25	Megaphone	63
84	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
85	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	411	Audioboom	63
86	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
87	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	60	Megaphone	68
88	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
89	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
90	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
91	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	109	Triton Digital	53
92	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	463	ART19	43
93	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	250	Audioboom	53
94	FBI Case File Review	Jerri Williams	True Crime	397	Libsyn	59
95	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
96	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	464	Audioboom	42
97	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	259	WideOrbit	58
98	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
99	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
100	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	577	ART19	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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