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 Jul 2025

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07/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 253

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:40:04

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. CBC (4 shows)

5. ABC News (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Devil in the Desert	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	69
2	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
3	The Retrievals	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	12	Simplecast	79
4	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
6	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
7	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
8	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
11	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
12	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
13	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
15	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
16	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
17	The Most Wanted Olympian from Suspicion	Toronto Star	True Crime	54	Libsyn	58
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
19	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
20	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
21	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
22	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1219	Simplecast	58
23	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
24	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
25	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
26	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
27	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
28	What Happened to Holly Bobo?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
29	7/7: The Inside Story	Wondery	True Crime	7	ART19	69
30	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
31	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
32	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
34	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
35	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
36	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	90	WideOrbit	58
37	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
38	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
39	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
41	Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University	Wondery	True Crime	4	ART19	63
42	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
43	Troubled Waters	Casefile Presents	True Crime	12	Acast	69
44	Blood Vines	Foxtopus Ink	True Crime	9	ART19	69
45	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
46	Camp Shame	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	69
47	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
48	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
49	Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge?	Slate Podcasts	True Crime	9	Megaphone	69
50	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
51	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
52	Firebug	truth.media	True Crime	14	Megaphone	59
53	Papi Killed Mommy	NIKKI	True Crime	17	Buzzsprout	79
54	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
55	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
56	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
57	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
58	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
59	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
60	Tom Brown's Body	Texas Monthly	True Crime	11	Spreaker	64
61	The Outlaw Ocean	CBC	True Crime	20	Triton Digital	63
62	The Rachel Cancer Scam	The Messenger	True Crime	48	ART19	83
63	Big Time	Apple TV+ / Campside Media	True Crime	15	ART19	73
64	The Hunter	BBC Studios	True Crime	7	ART19	69
65	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	63
66	Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia	TNT / Cadence13	True Crime	11	Megaphone	63
67	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
68	THREE	audiochuck	True Crime	22	Simplecast	73
69	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
70	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
71	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
72	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
73	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
74	Infamy	Valtown Network	True Crime	10	Soundcloud	59
75	A Murder On Orchard Street	ABC News	True Crime	21	Libsyn	58
76	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
77	The Case Of	ABC Australia	True Crime	224	ABC Australia	53
78	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
79	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
80	Back to Bardstown	VAULT Studios	True Crime	49	Simplecast	63
81	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
82	Guru: Don't Cross Kat	Wondery	True Crime	12	ART19	69
83	The Deck Investigates	audiochuck	True Crime	34	Simplecast	89
84	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
85	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
86	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
87	Felonious Florida	Wondery \| Sun Sentinel	True Crime	43	ART19	73
88	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
89	The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby	CBC + BBC World Service	True Crime	16	Triton Digital	59
90	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
91	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
92	Hell and Gone	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	170	Omny Studio	84
93	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan	CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	587	Omny Studio	52
94	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
95	Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets	TVO	True Crime	8	Omny Studio	53
96	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
97	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
98	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
99	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
100	The Knife: A True Crime Podcast	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	49	Omny Studio	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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