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 Dec 2025

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12/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 277

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:44:56

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (16 shows)

4. ART19 (9 shows)

5. Audioboom (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	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
7	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
9	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
10	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
12	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
13	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
17	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
18	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
21	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
22	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
23	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
24	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
25	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
26	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
27	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
29	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
30	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
31	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
32	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
33	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
34	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
35	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
36	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
37	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
38	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
39	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
40	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
41	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
42	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
43	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
44	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
45	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
46	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
47	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
48	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
49	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
50	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
51	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
52	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
53	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
54	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	8	Triton Digital	63
55	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
56	What Happened in Nashville	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	63
57	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
58	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
59	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
60	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48
61	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
62	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
63	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
64	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
65	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
66	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
67	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
68	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
69	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
70	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
71	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
72	no one knows	Liv	True Crime	32	Spotify for Podcasters	79
73	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
74	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
75	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
76	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
77	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
78	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
79	Diagnosing Murder	The Age and Sydney Morning Herald	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	63
80	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
81	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
82	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	159	Megaphone	58
83	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
84	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
85	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
86	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
87	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
88	Brian Walshe murder case: The Searches for Ana Walshe	NBC10 Boston, Matt Fortin	True Crime	39	Simplecast	58
89	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
90	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
91	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	92	Unknown	63
92	Forged	CBC + ABC	True Crime	7	Triton Digital	59
93	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
94	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
95	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
96	The Detective’s Dilemma	Casefile Presents	True Crime	10	Acast	43
97	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
98	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
99	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
100	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58

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