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 Apr 2026

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04/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 298

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:46:28

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. WideOrbit (9 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	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
4	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
7	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
8	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
10	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
12	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
13	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
14	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
15	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
16	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
17	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
18	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
19	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
20	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
21	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
22	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
23	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
24	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
26	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
27	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
28	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
29	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
30	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
31	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
32	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
33	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
34	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
35	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
36	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
37	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
38	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
39	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
40	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
41	Beware Book	Bauer Media	True Crime	8	Sharpstream	63
42	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
43	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
44	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
45	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
46	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
47	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
48	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
49	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
50	The Burden	Orbit Media	True Crime	103	Omny Studio	53
51	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
52	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
53	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
54	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
55	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
56	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
57	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
58	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
59	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
60	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
61	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
62	Murder on Songbird Road	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	12	Omny Studio	73
63	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
64	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
65	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
66	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
67	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
68	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
69	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
70	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
71	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
72	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
73	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
74	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
75	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
76	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
77	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
78	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
79	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
80	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
81	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
82	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	62
83	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
84	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
85	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
86	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
87	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
88	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
89	To Live and Die in LA	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	35	WideOrbit	58
90	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
91	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
92	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	562	Spotify for Podcasters	32
93	Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	58
94	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
95	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
96	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
97	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
98	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
99	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
100	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74

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