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 May 2026

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05/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 307

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:46:59

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 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	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
5	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
9	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
10	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
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	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
14	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1220	Simplecast	58
16	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
18	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
19	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
20	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
21	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
22	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
25	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
26	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
27	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
28	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
29	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
30	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
31	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
32	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
33	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
34	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
35	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
36	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
37	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
38	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
39	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
40	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
41	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	246	ART19	53
42	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
43	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
44	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
45	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
46	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
47	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	861	Megaphone	69
48	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
49	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
50	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
51	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	15	Acast	69
52	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
53	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	73
54	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
55	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
56	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
57	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
58	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
59	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
60	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
61	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
62	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
63	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
64	Who Killed Roxanne?	Charles Dowdy	True Crime	8	Libsyn	63
65	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
66	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
67	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
68	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
69	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
70	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
71	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
72	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
73	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
74	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
75	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
76	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
77	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
78	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
79	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
80	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	182	Simplecast	79
81	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
82	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	454	Simplecast	73
83	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
84	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	730	Megaphone	49
85	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
86	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
87	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
88	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
89	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
90	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
91	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
92	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
93	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
94	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	144	WideOrbit	68
95	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
96	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
97	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	441	Omny Studio	48
98	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
99	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	247	Megaphone	48
100	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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