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 Aug 2026

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08/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 300

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:49:29

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. Audible (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	857	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1120	WideOrbit	53
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	547	Simplecast	57
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1220	Omny Studio	38
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
9	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
10	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	445	Audioboom	63
11	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
12	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	563	Simplecast	63
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
14	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	368	ART19	58
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
16	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
17	The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani	ESPN	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
21	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
22	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	540	ART19	58
23	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
24	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
25	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
26	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
27	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
28	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
29	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
30	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	490	ART19	52
31	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
32	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
33	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
34	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
35	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
36	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	422	Acast	43
37	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
38	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
39	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	405	Megaphone	63
40	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
41	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
42	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	226	ART19	53
43	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
44	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
45	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
46	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
47	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
48	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
49	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
50	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	39	Omny Studio	83
51	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
52	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
53	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
54	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
55	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
56	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
57	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
58	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
59	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
60	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
61	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	553	Simplecast	49
62	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
63	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	191	WideOrbit	58
64	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	52
65	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
66	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	438	Simplecast	68
67	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	409	Megaphone	73
68	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
69	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
70	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
71	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
72	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	228	WideOrbit	58
73	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A
74	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	55	Megaphone	68
75	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
76	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	68
77	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	440	Simplecast	73
78	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
79	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
80	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	158	Simplecast	73
81	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
82	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
83	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
84	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
85	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
86	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
87	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	295	Megaphone	63
88	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
89	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	461	Audioboom	42
90	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
91	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
92	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	419	Megaphone	53
93	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	329	Megaphone	69
94	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	406	Audioboom	63
95	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	551	Spotify for Podcasters	32
96	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1254	Megaphone	27
97	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
98	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
99	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
100	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	721	Megaphone	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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