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 Sep 2026

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09/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 282

Frequency: every 19 days

Duration: 00:46:58

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. Crime House (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	908	Simplecast	53
4	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1115	WideOrbit	53
7	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	552	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1218	Omny Studio	38
10	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
11	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
12	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
13	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
15	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	510	Acast	43
16	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
17	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
18	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
19	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
20	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
21	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
22	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
23	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
24	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
25	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
26	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
27	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
28	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
29	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
30	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
31	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
32	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
35	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	54	Audioboom	73
36	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
37	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
38	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
40	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
41	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
42	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
43	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
44	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
45	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
46	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
47	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
48	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
49	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	83	Acast	53
50	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
51	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
52	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
53	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
54	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
55	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
56	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
57	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
58	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
59	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
60	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	18	Megaphone	58
61	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	76	Megaphone	69
62	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	10	ART19	73
63	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
64	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	245	Audioboom	53
65	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
66	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
67	Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial	WBUR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	32
68	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
69	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
70	Missing on 9/11	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	17	Omny Studio	48
71	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	358	Audioboom	68
72	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
73	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	241	WideOrbit	58
74	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	456	Libsyn	52
75	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
76	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
77	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
78	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
79	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
80	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
81	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
82	The Piketon Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	63	Omny Studio	89
83	Killer Summer	Scott A. Weiss	True Crime	3	RSS.com	68
84	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	89	Unknown	63
85	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	42
86	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
87	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
88	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
89	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	217	Omny Studio	53
90	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	64	Omny Studio	68
91	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	548	Spotify for Podcasters	32
92	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
93	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
94	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
95	To Live and Die in LA	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	35	WideOrbit	58
96	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
97	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	154	Simplecast	73
98	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
99	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
100	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	238	Megaphone	48

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