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 Jun 2026

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06/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 298

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:47:34

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Audioboom (12 shows)

5. ART19 (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	531	Simplecast	63
2	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	861	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
6	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
7	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
10	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
12	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
13	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
14	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
16	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
17	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
18	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
19	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
20	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
21	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
22	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
23	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
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	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
27	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
29	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
30	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
31	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
32	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
33	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
34	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
35	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
36	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
37	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
38	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
40	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
41	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
42	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
43	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
44	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
45	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
46	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
47	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
48	She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast	She Goes by Jane: A True Crime Podcast	True Crime	150	Audioboom	31
49	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
50	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
51	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
52	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
53	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
54	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
55	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
56	Kingdom of Fraud	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	83
57	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	421	Megaphone	53
58	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
59	Hunting the Suicide Salesman	CBC	True Crime	14	Triton Digital	63
60	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
61	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	230	Omny Studio	53
62	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
63	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
64	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
65	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
66	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
67	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
68	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
69	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
70	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
71	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
72	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
73	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
74	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
75	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
76	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
77	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
78	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
79	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
80	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
81	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
82	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48
83	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	312	Audioboom	73
84	The Lindbergh Conspiracies	The Free Press	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
85	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
86	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
87	Have A Seat with Chris Hansen	Chris Hansen	True Crime	349	Megaphone	48
88	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
89	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
90	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	153	Simplecast	68
91	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	21	Megaphone	58
92	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
93	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
94	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
95	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	13	Acast	69
96	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
97	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
98	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
99	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
100	Who Took Misty Copsey?	ID	True Crime	31	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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