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 Sep 2025

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09/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 273

Frequency: every 19 days

Duration: 00:43:37

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. ABC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
2	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
3	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
4	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	853	Simplecast	53
5	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	54	Megaphone	68
6	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
7	The Fight of My Life	Cadence Productions	True Crime	15	Buzzsprout	63
8	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
9	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
10	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1115	WideOrbit	53
11	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
12	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
13	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
14	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
15	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
16	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
17	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
19	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
21	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
22	Who Took Misty Copsey?	ID	True Crime	31	Acast	69
23	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
24	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
25	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
26	The Hunter	BBC Studios	True Crime	7	ART19	69
27	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
28	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
29	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	560	Simplecast	63
30	Stolen Voices of Dole Valley	Lemonada Media	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	53
31	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	124	WideOrbit	68
32	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
34	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
35	Julie's Gone	Casefile Presents	True Crime	8	Acast	59
36	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
37	Over My Dead Body	Wondery	True Crime	44	ART19	79
38	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	846	Megaphone	69
39	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
40	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
41	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
42	Camp Shame	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	69
43	The Rachel Cancer Scam	The Messenger	True Crime	48	ART19	83
44	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
45	The Deck Investigates	audiochuck	True Crime	34	Simplecast	89
46	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	154	Simplecast	73
47	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	22	Megaphone	69
48	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
49	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
50	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
51	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
52	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
53	Devil in the Desert	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	69
54	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
55	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
56	Untested: A true crime podcast	USA TODAY	True Crime	8	ART19	58
57	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
58	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
59	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	73
60	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	523	Megaphone	64
61	The Retrievals	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	Simplecast	79
62	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
63	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
64	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
65	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
66	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
67	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
68	What Happened to Holly Bobo?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
69	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
70	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
71	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
72	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
73	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	162	Audioboom	53
74	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
75	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
76	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
77	The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby	CBC + BBC World Service	True Crime	16	Triton Digital	59
78	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
79	Another Fucking Horror Podcast	Monique Sanchez and Amy Traydon	True Crime	279	Spotify for Podcasters	22
80	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
81	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
82	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
83	The Mystic and The Mayor	Wondery	True Crime	9	ART19	59
84	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	158	Megaphone	58
85	Big Time	Apple TV+ / Campside Media	True Crime	15	ART19	73
86	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
87	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
88	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
89	The Real Killer	iHeartPodcasts and AYR Media	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	79
90	Scamanda	Lionsgate Sound	True Crime	18	Megaphone	64
91	Lore and Crime	Diego DM	True Crime	9	Podbean	58
92	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
93	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
94	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	89	Unknown	63
95	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
96	Scamtown	Apple TV+ / FunMeter	True Crime	12	ART19	63
97	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
98	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
99	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
100	Crime Salad Details temporarily unavailable	Weird Salad Media \| QCODE	True Crime	446	Megaphone	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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