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 2026

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07/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 309

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:49:09

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. PodcastOne (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (24 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Audioboom (12 shows)

5. Omny Studio (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	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
4	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
5	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
9	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
10	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
12	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1219	Simplecast	58
13	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
15	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
16	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
17	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
18	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
19	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
20	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
21	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
22	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
23	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
24	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A
25	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
26	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
27	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
28	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
29	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
30	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
31	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
32	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
33	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
34	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
35	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
36	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
37	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
39	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
40	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
41	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
42	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
43	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
44	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
45	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
46	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
47	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
48	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
49	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
50	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
51	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
52	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
53	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
54	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
55	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
56	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
57	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
58	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
59	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
60	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
61	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
62	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
63	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
64	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1272	Megaphone	27
65	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
66	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
67	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
68	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	90	WideOrbit	58
69	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
70	Hide and Seek	James Baysinger	True Crime	133	Spotify for Podcasters	48
71	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
72	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	562	Spotify for Podcasters	32
73	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
74	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	453	Simplecast	73
75	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
76	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
77	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	182	Simplecast	79
78	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
79	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
80	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
81	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
82	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
83	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
84	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
85	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
86	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	243	Megaphone	48
87	The Antiquarium of Documented Atrocities	Bloody FM	True Crime	21	Simplecast	62
88	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
89	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	15	Acast	69
90	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
91	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
92	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
93	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	171	ART19	83
94	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
95	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	316	Audioboom	73
96	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	366	Audioboom	58
97	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
98	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
99	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
100	Court Junkie	PodcastOne	True Crime	399	ART19	69

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