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 Apr 2026

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04/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 290

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:07

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (23 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (14 shows)

5. WideOrbit (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	531	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	862	Simplecast	53
3	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
4	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	892	Simplecast	68
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
7	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
9	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	554	Simplecast	57
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1226	Omny Studio	38
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
13	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
16	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
17	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1230	Simplecast	58
19	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
20	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	543	ART19	58
21	Murder on Songbird Road	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	12	Omny Studio	73
22	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
23	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
24	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
25	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
26	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	424	Acast	43
27	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
28	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
29	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	158	Megaphone	48
30	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
31	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
32	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
33	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
34	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
35	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
36	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
37	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	642	Audioboom	48
39	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
40	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	852	Megaphone	69
41	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
42	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	233	ART19	53
43	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
44	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	558	Simplecast	49
45	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
46	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
47	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
48	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
49	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	42	Omny Studio	83
50	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
51	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
52	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
53	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
54	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
55	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
56	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
57	The Burden	Orbit Media	True Crime	103	Omny Studio	53
58	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	461	Simplecast	68
59	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
60	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
61	Murder At Land Between The Lakes	Amelia Courtney and Lainie Sullivan	True Crime	49	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
63	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
64	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
65	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	443	Simplecast	73
66	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
67	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
68	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
69	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
70	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
71	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
72	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
73	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	442	Simplecast	68
74	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
75	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
76	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
77	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	57	Megaphone	68
78	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	422	Megaphone	53
79	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
80	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
81	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
82	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
83	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
84	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
85	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
86	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	389	Acast	38
87	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
88	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
89	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
90	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	130	WideOrbit	68
91	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
92	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
93	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	232	Omny Studio	53
94	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
95	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
96	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	194	WideOrbit	58
97	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	380	Audioboom	37
98	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	166	Simplecast	79
99	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	51	Simplecast	69
100	Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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