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 Oct 2025

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10/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 279

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:43:42

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (7 shows)

2. NBC News (7 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (27 shows)

2. Simplecast (24 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. WideOrbit (8 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	862	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	892	Simplecast	68
4	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
5	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1226	Omny Studio	38
8	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	554	Simplecast	57
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
11	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
13	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
14	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	216	Omny Studio	69
15	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
16	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1230	Simplecast	58
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
19	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
20	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
21	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
22	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
23	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
25	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
26	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
27	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
28	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	130	WideOrbit	68
29	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
30	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
31	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
32	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
33	West Cork	yarn fm	True Crime	16	Acast	59
34	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
35	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	424	Acast	43
36	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
37	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	642	Audioboom	48
39	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	852	Megaphone	69
40	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	57	WideOrbit	62
41	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
42	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
43	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
44	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
45	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	233	ART19	53
46	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
47	Crime Salad	BLACKCAT \| Realm	True Crime	288	Megaphone	59
48	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	297	Megaphone	63
49	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
50	SAD OLIGARCH	Cool Zone Media and H11	True Crime	19	Omny Studio	59
51	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
52	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	158	Megaphone	48
53	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
54	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
55	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	57	Megaphone	68
56	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
57	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	54	WideOrbit	62
58	Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy	Blanchard House / Curiouscast	True Crime	11	Megaphone	53
59	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
60	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
61	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
62	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
63	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	389	Acast	38
64	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
65	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
66	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
67	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
68	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
69	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
70	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	442	Simplecast	68
71	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
72	Wild Boys	Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	59
73	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	558	Simplecast	49
74	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
75	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
76	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	332	Megaphone	69
77	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	408	Audioboom	63
78	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
79	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	443	Simplecast	73
80	The Surgeon Of St Helena	Always True Crime	True Crime	20	Acast	69
81	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
82	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
83	The Chinatown Sting	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	69
84	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
85	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
86	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
87	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	166	Simplecast	79
88	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	543	ART19	58
89	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
90	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
91	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	194	WideOrbit	58
92	Unrestorable	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	19	Omny Studio	53
93	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
94	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
95	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	159	Megaphone	58
96	MURDERISH	Cloud10	True Crime	393	Megaphone	64
97	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
98	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
99	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
100	The Missing Sister	Free Turn \| Wondery	True Crime	7	ART19	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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