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 12 Feb 2026

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02/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 282

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:45:15

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (5 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. Audible (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 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	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1127	WideOrbit	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
7	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	552	Simplecast	57
9	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	378	Audioboom	37
10	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1224	Omny Studio	38
12	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
13	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
16	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
17	Finding Nancy Guthrie	The Daily Wire	News	16	Simplecast	53
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
19	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
20	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
21	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
22	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
23	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1210	Simplecast	58
24	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
25	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
26	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
27	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
28	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
29	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
30	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
31	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
32	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
33	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
34	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
35	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
36	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
37	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
38	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
39	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
40	The Thing About Helen & Olga	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
41	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
42	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
44	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
45	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	231	ART19	53
46	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
47	Everything They Missed	Stephanie Tinsley/Audacy/TFTV	True Crime	13	Megaphone	59
48	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
49	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
50	Toil and Trouble	Always True Crime	True Crime	8	Acast	59
51	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
52	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
53	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
54	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
55	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
56	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
57	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
58	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
59	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
60	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
61	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
62	Codename Badger	Always True Crime	True Crime	11	Acast	79
63	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
64	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
65	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
66	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
67	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
68	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
69	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
70	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
71	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
72	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
73	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	442	Simplecast	73
74	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
75	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
76	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
77	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
78	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
79	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
80	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
81	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	422	Megaphone	53
82	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
83	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
84	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
85	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
86	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
87	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	54	WideOrbit	62
88	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	57	Megaphone	68
89	The Consult: Real FBI Profilers	PodcastOne	True Crime	145	Nox Solutions	38
90	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
91	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
92	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
93	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
94	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
95	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	232	Omny Studio	53
96	BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	22	Megaphone	59
97	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
98	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
99	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	63
100	Over My Dead Body	Wondery	True Crime	44	ART19	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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