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 10 Sep 2026

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09/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 284

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:47:02

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. ABC News (5 shows)

4. Crime House (5 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	856	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	887	Simplecast	68
4	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
7	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1118	WideOrbit	53
8	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	545	Simplecast	57
10	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1219	Omny Studio	38
12	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
13	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	443	Audioboom	63
15	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
16	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
17	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	53
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
19	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
20	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1206	Simplecast	58
21	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
22	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	539	ART19	58
24	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
25	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
26	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
27	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
28	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
29	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
30	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
31	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
32	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
33	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
34	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	552	Simplecast	49
35	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
36	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
37	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
38	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
39	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	650	Audioboom	42
40	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
41	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
42	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
43	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
44	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
45	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
46	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
47	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	290	Simplecast	63
48	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
49	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	55	Megaphone	68
50	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	225	ART19	53
51	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
52	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	81	WideOrbit	52
53	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
54	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
55	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
56	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
57	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
58	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
59	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	194	Megaphone	78
60	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
61	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
62	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
63	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	42
64	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
65	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
66	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
67	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	157	Simplecast	73
68	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	437	Simplecast	68
69	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
70	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
71	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	524	Megaphone	64
72	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
73	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
74	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
75	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
76	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	219	Omny Studio	53
77	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
78	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
79	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
80	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
81	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	439	Simplecast	73
82	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
83	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	328	Megaphone	69
84	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	18	RSS.com	52
85	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
86	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	418	Megaphone	53
87	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
88	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
89	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
90	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
91	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	191	WideOrbit	58
92	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
93	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
94	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	162	Audioboom	53
95	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
96	PRETEND	Creative Babble, LLC	True Crime	320	Megaphone	84
97	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
98	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	68
99	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	227	WideOrbit	58
100	Missing on 9/11	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	17	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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