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 Dec 2025

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12/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 295

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:45

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. CBC (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (26 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (10 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	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
9	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
10	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
12	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
13	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
14	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
15	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
16	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
17	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
18	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
20	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
21	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
22	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
23	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
24	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
25	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
26	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
27	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
28	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
29	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
30	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
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	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
34	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
35	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
36	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
37	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
38	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
39	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
40	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
41	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
42	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
43	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
44	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
45	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
46	Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast	Allison and Mike	True Crime	232	Simplecast	68
47	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
48	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
49	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
50	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
51	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
52	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
53	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
54	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
55	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
56	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
57	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
58	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
59	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
60	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
61	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
62	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
63	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
64	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
65	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
66	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
67	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
68	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
69	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
70	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
71	Forged	CBC + ABC	True Crime	7	Triton Digital	59
72	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
73	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
74	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
75	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	63
76	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
77	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	365	Audioboom	58
78	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
79	The Detective’s Dilemma	Casefile Presents	True Crime	10	Acast	43
80	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
81	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
82	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
83	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
85	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
86	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
87	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	243	Megaphone	48
88	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
89	Spotlight: Snitch City	The Boston Globe Spotlight Team	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
90	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
91	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
92	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
93	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
94	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
95	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
96	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
97	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
98	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	53
99	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
100	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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