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 Aug 2026

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08/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 286

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:46:44

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. ABC News (6 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. Crime House (5 shows)

5. Audible (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Audioboom (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (9 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	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1125	WideOrbit	53
7	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
8	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
12	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
13	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
14	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
15	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
16	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
18	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
19	The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani	ESPN	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
20	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
21	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
22	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
23	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
24	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
25	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
26	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
27	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
28	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
29	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
30	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
31	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
32	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
33	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
34	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
35	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
36	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
37	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
38	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
39	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
40	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
41	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
42	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
43	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
44	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
45	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
46	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
47	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
48	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
49	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
50	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
51	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
52	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
53	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
54	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
55	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
56	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	12	ART19	73
57	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
58	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
59	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
60	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
61	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
62	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
63	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
64	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
65	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	83
66	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
67	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
68	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
69	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	165	ART19	83
70	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
71	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
72	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
73	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
74	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
75	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
76	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
77	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
78	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
79	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
80	Intrigue	BBC Radio 4	True Crime	131	BBC	53
81	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A
82	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
83	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
84	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
85	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
86	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
87	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
88	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
89	Pretty Lies And Alibis	GiGi McKelvey	True Crime	1000	Spreaker	64
90	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
91	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	555	Spotify for Podcasters	32
92	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
93	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	12	Acast	69
94	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
95	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
96	Hysterical Women: women's mental health crises and the media that defines them	hysterical women podcast	True Crime	13	Unknown	52
97	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
98	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
99	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
100	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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