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 13 Jan 2026

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01/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 329

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:48:04

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Audioboom (13 shows)

5. Omny Studio (11 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	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
6	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
7	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
8	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
9	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
10	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
11	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
12	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
14	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
15	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
16	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
17	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
18	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
19	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
20	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
21	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
22	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
23	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
24	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
26	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
27	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
28	Under Cover of Knight	Apple TV+ / Spoke Media	True Crime	12	ART19	83
29	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
30	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
31	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
32	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
33	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
34	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
35	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
36	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
37	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
38	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
39	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
40	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
41	Toil and Trouble	Always True Crime	True Crime	8	Acast	59
42	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
43	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
44	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
45	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
46	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
47	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
48	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
49	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
50	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
51	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
52	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
53	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
54	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	421	Megaphone	53
55	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
56	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
57	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
58	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
59	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
60	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
61	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	361	Audioboom	58
62	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
63	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
64	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
65	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
66	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
67	One of Their Own	KPBS	True Crime	7	StreamGuys	59
68	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
69	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
70	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
71	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
72	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
73	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	312	Audioboom	73
74	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
75	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
76	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
77	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
78	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
79	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	375	Audioboom	37
80	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
81	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
82	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
83	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
84	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
85	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
86	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
87	Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson	Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network	True Crime	266	Megaphone	69
88	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
89	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
90	Big Mad True Crime	Big Mad Media \| Daylight Media	True Crime	442	Megaphone	53
91	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
92	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	511	ART19	58
93	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
94	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1259	Megaphone	27
95	Crime Salad	BLACKCAT \| Realm	True Crime	288	Megaphone	59
96	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
97	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
98	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
99	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48
100	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83

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