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 May 2026

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05/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 307

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:46:49

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. Megaphone (28 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. WideOrbit (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	533	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	871	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	32	Omny Studio	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	897	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1135	WideOrbit	53
6	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	561	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1232	Omny Studio	38
10	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	68	Omny Studio	78
11	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
12	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	14	Acast	69
13	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	184	Omny Studio	63
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
15	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1215	Simplecast	58
17	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	453	Simplecast	68
18	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	567	Simplecast	63
19	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	372	ART19	58
20	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	160	Megaphone	48
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	359	Megaphone	58
22	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	548	ART19	58
23	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
24	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
25	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	977	Simplecast	59
26	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	59	Simplecast	73
27	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
28	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	426	Acast	43
29	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	463	Simplecast	68
30	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	494	ART19	52
31	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
32	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
33	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
34	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	306	Audioboom	52
35	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	646	Audioboom	48
36	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	264	Megaphone	59
37	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	239	ART19	53
38	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	562	Simplecast	49
39	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	192	Omny Studio	52
40	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
41	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	96	WideOrbit	68
42	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
43	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	857	Megaphone	69
44	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
45	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	87	WideOrbit	58
46	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
47	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	666	Audioboom	42
48	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
49	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	198	Megaphone	78
50	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	73
51	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	107	Triton Digital	53
52	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	174	Simplecast	79
53	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
54	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	363	Audioboom	68
55	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	63
56	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
57	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
58	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
59	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	63
60	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	43	WideOrbit	62
61	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
62	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
63	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
64	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	59	Megaphone	68
65	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	576	ART19	58
66	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	412	Megaphone	73
67	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	428	Megaphone	53
68	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	299	Megaphone	63
69	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	464	Audioboom	42
70	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
71	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	447	Simplecast	73
72	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	462	ART19	43
73	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	444	Simplecast	68
74	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	217	ART19	68
75	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	169	ART19	83
76	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	44	Omny Studio	83
77	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
78	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
79	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	513	ART19	58
80	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
81	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan	CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	587	Omny Studio	52
82	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	137	ART19	53
83	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	335	Megaphone	69
84	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
85	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
86	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
87	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	137	WideOrbit	68
88	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	53	Simplecast	69
89	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
90	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
91	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	727	Megaphone	49
92	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
93	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	180	Megaphone	68
94	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	391	Acast	38
95	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
96	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
97	Cup Of Justice	LUNASHARK	True Crime	193	Megaphone	94
98	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	163	Megaphone	73
99	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
100	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	240	WideOrbit	58

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