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 May 2026

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05/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 297

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:47:21

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

4. NBC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (11 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	853	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
6	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
7	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1115	WideOrbit	53
8	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	64	Omny Studio	68
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
11	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
12	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
13	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
14	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
16	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
17	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
18	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
19	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
20	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	560	Simplecast	63
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
22	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
24	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
25	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
26	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
27	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
28	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
29	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
30	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
31	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
32	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
33	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
34	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
35	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
36	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
37	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	54	Audioboom	73
38	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
39	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
41	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	846	Megaphone	69
42	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
43	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
44	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
45	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
46	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
47	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
48	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
49	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
50	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
51	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	79	WideOrbit	68
52	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
53	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	452	Omny Studio	63
54	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
55	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
56	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
57	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
58	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
59	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
60	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
61	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	22	Megaphone	69
62	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	358	Audioboom	68
63	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
64	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	365	Audioboom	37
65	Residue: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Residue: A True Crime Podcast	True Crime	134	N/A	N/A
66	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	225	WideOrbit	58
68	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	73
69	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
70	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
71	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
72	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
73	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
74	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
75	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
76	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	11	Acast	69
77	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
78	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
79	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	18	Megaphone	58
80	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	548	Spotify for Podcasters	32
81	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
82	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
83	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
84	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	124	WideOrbit	68
85	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
86	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
87	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
88	American Nightmares - Gardens of Evil: Inside The Zion Society Cult	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	84
89	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
90	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
91	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	154	Simplecast	73
92	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
93	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
94	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
95	Who Killed Roxanne?	Charles Dowdy	True Crime	8	Libsyn	63
96	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
97	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
98	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
99	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
100	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	429	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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