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 14 Feb 2026

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02/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 293

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:45:07

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. Audible (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Audioboom (11 shows)

5. Omny Studio (10 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	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
5	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
9	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
10	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
11	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
12	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	375	Audioboom	37
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
15	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
16	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
17	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
18	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
19	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
20	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
21	Finding Nancy Guthrie	The Daily Wire	News	16	Simplecast	53
22	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
23	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
24	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
25	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
26	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
27	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
29	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
31	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
32	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
33	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
35	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
36	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
37	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
38	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
39	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
41	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
42	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
43	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
44	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
45	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
46	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
47	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
48	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
49	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
50	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
51	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
52	Profiling Evil	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	336	ART19	59
53	Everything They Missed	Stephanie Tinsley/Audacy/TFTV	True Crime	13	Megaphone	59
54	The Thing About Helen & Olga	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
55	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
56	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
57	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
58	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
59	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
60	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
61	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
62	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
63	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
64	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
65	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
66	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
67	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
68	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
69	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
70	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
71	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
72	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
73	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
74	Toil and Trouble	Always True Crime	True Crime	8	Acast	59
75	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
76	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
77	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
78	BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	22	Megaphone	59
79	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
80	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
81	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
82	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
83	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
84	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
85	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
86	Codename Badger	Always True Crime	True Crime	11	Acast	79
87	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
88	Chasing Ghislaine	Audible	True Crime	2	ART19	59
89	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
90	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
91	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
92	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
93	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
94	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
95	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	153	Simplecast	68
96	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
97	Hell and Gone	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	170	Omny Studio	84
98	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
99	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
100	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27

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