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 08 Mar 2026

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03/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 287

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:21

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 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	528	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
5	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
6	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
7	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
11	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1219	Simplecast	58
12	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
13	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
14	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
15	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	12	Megaphone	59
16	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
17	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
19	Out of the Valley’s Shadow	Aziz Saad	True Crime	6	Podbean	58
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
21	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
22	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
23	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
24	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
25	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	62
26	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
27	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
28	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
29	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
30	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
31	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
32	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
33	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
35	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
36	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
37	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
38	Are You Captain Purple	Hilliard House Productions	True Crime	9	Podbean	63
39	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
40	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
41	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
42	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
43	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
44	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
45	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
46	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
47	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
48	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
49	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
50	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
51	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
52	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
53	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
54	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
55	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
56	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
57	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
58	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
59	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
60	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
61	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
62	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
63	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
64	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
65	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
66	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
67	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
68	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
69	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
70	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
71	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
72	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
73	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
74	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
75	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
76	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	453	Simplecast	73
77	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
78	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
79	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
80	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
81	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
82	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
83	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
84	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
85	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
86	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
87	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
88	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
89	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
90	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	90	WideOrbit	58
91	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
92	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
93	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
94	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
95	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
96	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
97	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
98	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
99	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
100	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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