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 Sep 2026

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09/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 277

Frequency: every 19 days

Duration: 00:46:28

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	854	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
4	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
5	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
6	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1116	WideOrbit	53
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
8	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
10	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
12	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
13	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	178	Simplecast	63
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
16	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
17	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
21	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	965	Simplecast	59
22	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
23	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
24	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
26	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
27	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
28	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
29	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
30	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
31	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
32	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	650	Audioboom	42
33	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
34	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
35	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
36	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
37	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
38	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
40	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	552	Simplecast	49
41	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	638	Audioboom	48
42	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
43	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
44	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
45	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	83	Acast	53
46	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
47	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	224	ART19	53
48	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
49	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
50	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
51	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
52	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
53	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	10	ART19	73
54	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
55	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
56	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
57	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
58	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
59	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	162	Audioboom	53
60	Missing on 9/11	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	17	Omny Studio	48
61	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
62	The Piketon Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	63	Omny Studio	89
63	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
64	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
65	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
66	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
67	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	155	Simplecast	73
68	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
69	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
70	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
71	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
72	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
73	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
74	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
75	To Live and Die in LA	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	35	WideOrbit	58
76	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
77	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
78	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
79	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
80	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	226	WideOrbit	58
81	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	42
82	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
83	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
84	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
85	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
86	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
87	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	238	Megaphone	48
88	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	89	Unknown	63
89	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
90	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
91	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	54	Megaphone	68
92	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
93	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	64	Omny Studio	68
94	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
95	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
96	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	79	WideOrbit	68
97	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan	CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	583	Omny Studio	52
98	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
99	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	18	RSS.com	52
100	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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