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 Oct 2025

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10/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 280

Frequency: every 19 days

Duration: 00:42:57

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Crime House (6 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

4. Audiochuck (5 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (24 shows)

3. Omny Studio (17 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. WideOrbit (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	877	Simplecast	53
3	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
4	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	900	Simplecast	68
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1143	WideOrbit	53
7	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1237	Omny Studio	38
10	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
11	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	566	Simplecast	57
12	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
13	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
14	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	218	Omny Studio	69
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
16	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
17	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
18	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
19	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
20	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	456	Simplecast	68
21	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
22	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
23	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
24	West Cork	yarn fm	True Crime	16	Acast	59
25	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	185	Omny Studio	63
26	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	570	Simplecast	63
27	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	66	WideOrbit	52
28	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	143	WideOrbit	68
29	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
30	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
31	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	294	Simplecast	63
32	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
33	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
35	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
36	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
37	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
38	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	859	Megaphone	69
39	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
40	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	648	Audioboom	48
41	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	58	WideOrbit	62
42	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
43	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
44	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	327	Triton Digital	58
45	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
46	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	160	Megaphone	48
47	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
48	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
49	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
50	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
51	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
52	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
53	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	671	Audioboom	42
54	Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy	Blanchard House / Curiouscast	True Crime	11	Megaphone	53
55	SAD OLIGARCH	Cool Zone Media and H11	True Crime	19	Omny Studio	59
56	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	244	ART19	53
57	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
58	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
59	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
60	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
61	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
62	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
63	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
64	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
65	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
66	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	451	Simplecast	73
67	The Chinatown Sting	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	69
68	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
69	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
70	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
71	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
72	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
73	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	180	Simplecast	79
74	Wild Boys	Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	59
75	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
76	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
77	Unrestorable	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	18	Omny Studio	63
78	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
79	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
80	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
81	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
82	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
83	The Surgeon Of St Helena	Always True Crime	True Crime	20	Acast	69
84	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
85	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
86	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
87	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
88	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
89	The Missing Sister	Free Turn \| Wondery	True Crime	7	ART19	59
90	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	550	ART19	58
91	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
92	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
93	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
94	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
95	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	392	Acast	38
96	Up and Vanished Weekly	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	44	Megaphone	63
97	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
98	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
99	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
100	Murder on Music Row from The Tennessean	The Tennessean	True Crime	22	Omny Studio	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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