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 09 Mar 2026

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03/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 286

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:45:09

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. ART19 (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	1144	WideOrbit	53
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
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	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
11	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
12	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
13	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
14	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
15	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
16	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	12	Megaphone	59
17	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
18	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
19	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
20	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
22	Out of the Valley’s Shadow	Aziz Saad	True Crime	6	Podbean	58
23	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
24	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
25	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
26	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
27	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	62
28	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
29	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
30	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
31	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
32	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
33	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
34	Are You Captain Purple	Hilliard House Productions	True Crime	9	Podbean	63
35	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
36	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
37	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
38	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
39	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
40	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
41	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
42	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
43	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
44	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
45	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
46	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
47	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
48	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
49	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
50	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
51	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
52	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
53	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
54	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
55	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
56	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
57	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
58	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
59	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
60	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
61	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
62	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
63	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
64	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
65	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
66	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
67	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
68	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
69	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
70	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
71	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
72	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
73	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
74	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
75	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
76	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
77	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
78	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
79	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
80	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
81	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
82	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
83	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
84	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
85	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
86	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
87	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
88	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
89	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
90	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
91	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
92	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
93	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
94	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
95	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
96	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
97	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
98	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
99	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
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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