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 2026

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09/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 298

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:47:33

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 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	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
6	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
13	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
14	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
15	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
16	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
18	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
19	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
20	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1219	Simplecast	58
21	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
22	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
25	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
26	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
27	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	59	WideOrbit	62
28	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
29	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
30	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
31	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
32	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
33	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
34	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
35	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
36	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
37	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
38	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
40	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
41	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
42	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
43	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
44	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
45	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
46	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
47	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
48	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
49	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
50	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
51	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
52	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	53
53	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
54	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
55	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
56	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
57	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
58	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
59	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
60	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
61	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
62	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
63	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
64	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
65	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	62
66	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	18	ART19	63
68	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
69	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
70	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
71	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	69
72	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
73	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
74	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
75	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
76	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
77	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
78	Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial	WBUR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	32
79	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
80	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
81	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
82	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
83	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
84	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
85	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
86	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
87	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
88	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
89	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	182	Simplecast	79
90	Missing on 9/11	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	17	Omny Studio	48
91	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	453	Simplecast	73
92	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
93	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
94	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	90	WideOrbit	58
95	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	366	Audioboom	58
96	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
97	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
98	Court Junkie	PodcastOne	True Crime	399	ART19	69
99	PRETEND	Creative Babble, LLC	True Crime	329	Megaphone	84
100	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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