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 Apr 2025

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04/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 274

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:42:58

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (6 shows)

3. ABC News (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (3 shows)

5. Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (23 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
2	Guru: Don't Cross Kat	Wondery	True Crime	12	ART19	69
3	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
4	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	73
5	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
6	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
7	THREE	audiochuck	True Crime	22	Simplecast	73
8	My Friend Daisy	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
9	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
11	Happy Face	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	24	Omny Studio	94
12	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
13	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
14	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
15	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
16	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
17	Big Time	Apple TV+ / Campside Media	True Crime	15	ART19	73
18	White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse	CBC	True Crime	14	Triton Digital	63
19	Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer	Wolf Entertainment + CBC	True Crime	10	Triton Digital	58
20	Shadow Kingdom	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	53
21	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
22	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
23	LUIGI	Law&Crime \| Wondery	True Crime	10	ART19	69
24	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
25	Among The Missing	FTM Media	True Crime	9	Megaphone	74
26	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
27	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
28	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
29	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
30	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
31	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
32	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1220	Simplecast	58
33	The Knife: A True Crime Podcast	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	49	Omny Studio	58
34	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
35	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
36	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
37	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
38	Crook County	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	69
39	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
40	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
41	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
42	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
43	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
44	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
45	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
46	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
47	Dear Rachelle	True Crime Australia	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	79
48	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
49	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	862	Megaphone	69
50	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
51	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
52	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
53	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
54	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
55	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	246	ART19	53
56	Late Nights with Nexpo	Ballen Studios	True Crime	18	ART19	63
57	This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me	Sword and Scale	True Crime	12	Spreaker	69
58	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
59	Truer Crime	Celisia Stanton	True Crime	59	Megaphone	73
60	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
61	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
62	In the Shadow of Princeton	NJ.com	True Crime	10	Megaphone	53
63	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
64	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
65	Spotlight: Snitch City	The Boston Globe Spotlight Team	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
66	Extrasensory	Apple TV / Blanchard House	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
68	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
69	Scamanda	Lionsgate Sound	True Crime	20	Acast	79
70	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
71	The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby	CBC + BBC World Service	True Crime	16	Triton Digital	59
72	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	465	ART19	43
73	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
74	Scam Factory	Wondery	True Crime	8	ART19	69
75	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
76	KAREN: THE RETRIAL	Law&Crime \| Wondery	True Crime	20	ART19	79
77	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
78	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
79	The Deck Investigates	audiochuck	True Crime	34	Simplecast	89
80	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
81	Scamtown	Apple TV+ / FunMeter	True Crime	12	ART19	63
82	The Crime Scene Weekly	ABC News	True Crime	16	Megaphone	53
83	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
84	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
85	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
86	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
87	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
88	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1272	Megaphone	27
89	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
90	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
91	Murder on Songbird Road	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	12	Omny Studio	73
92	(In)Justice: Killer Privilege	Message Heard \| Wondery	True Crime	7	ART19	63
93	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
94	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	454	Simplecast	73
95	Very Scary People	ID	True Crime	24	Acast	59
96	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
97	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	159	Simplecast	68
98	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
99	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
100	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59

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