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 Dec 2025

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12/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 289

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:59

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (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	878	Simplecast	53
3	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
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	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
10	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
11	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
12	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
13	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
14	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
15	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
16	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
17	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
18	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
19	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
21	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
22	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
23	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
24	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
25	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
26	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
27	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
28	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
29	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
30	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
31	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
32	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
33	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
34	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
35	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
36	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
37	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
38	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
39	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
40	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
41	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
42	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
43	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
44	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
45	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
46	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
47	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
48	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
49	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
50	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	63
51	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
52	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
53	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
54	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
55	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
56	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
57	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
58	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
59	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
60	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
61	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
62	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
63	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
64	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
65	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
66	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
67	Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast	Allison and Mike	True Crime	232	Simplecast	68
68	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
69	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
70	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
71	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
72	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
73	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
74	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
75	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
76	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
77	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
78	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
79	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
80	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
81	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
82	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
83	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
84	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
85	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
86	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
87	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
88	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
89	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	59	WideOrbit	62
90	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	513	ART19	58
91	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
92	The Detective’s Dilemma	Casefile Presents	True Crime	10	Acast	43
93	Forged	CBC + ABC	True Crime	7	Triton Digital	59
94	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
95	Scorned: Love Kills	ID	True Crime	76	Acast	53
96	Spotlight: Snitch City	The Boston Globe Spotlight Team	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
97	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	243	Megaphone	48
98	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
99	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
100	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	316	Audioboom	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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