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 11 Jan 2026

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01/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 287

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:44:37

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 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	861	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
5	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
6	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
9	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
11	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
12	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
13	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
15	Under Cover of Knight	Apple TV+ / Spoke Media	True Crime	12	ART19	83
16	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
17	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
18	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
19	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
20	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
22	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
23	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
24	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
25	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
26	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
27	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
28	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
29	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
30	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
31	Toil and Trouble	Always True Crime	True Crime	8	Acast	59
32	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
33	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
35	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
36	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
37	One of Their Own	KPBS	True Crime	7	StreamGuys	59
38	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
39	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
40	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
41	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
42	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
43	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
44	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
45	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
46	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
47	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
48	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
49	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
50	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
51	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
52	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
53	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
54	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
55	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
56	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
57	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
58	Killer Kin	ID	True Crime	61	Acast	59
59	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
60	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
61	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
62	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
63	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
64	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
65	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
66	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
67	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
68	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
69	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
70	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
71	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
72	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
73	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
74	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
75	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
76	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
77	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
78	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	375	Audioboom	37
79	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
80	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
81	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
82	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
83	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
84	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
85	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
86	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
87	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
88	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
89	Morrison Mysteries	NBC News	True Crime	19	Simplecast	69
90	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
91	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
92	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
93	Crime Salad	BLACKCAT \| Realm	True Crime	288	Megaphone	59
94	What Happened in Nashville	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	63
95	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
96	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
97	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
98	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
99	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	128	WideOrbit	68
100	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48

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