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 15 Apr 2026

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04/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 280

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:44:32

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (4 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (16 shows)

4. ART19 (15 shows)

5. WideOrbit (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	534	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	872	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	32	Omny Studio	63
4	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
5	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	107	Triton Digital	53
6	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	898	Simplecast	68
7	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1137	WideOrbit	53
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
9	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	562	Simplecast	57
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	184	Omny Studio	63
12	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1233	Omny Studio	38
13	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
14	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
15	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	372	ART19	58
16	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
17	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	454	Simplecast	68
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1215	Simplecast	58
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	568	Simplecast	63
20	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	361	Megaphone	58
22	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	548	ART19	58
23	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	426	Acast	43
24	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	74	ART19	63
25	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
26	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
27	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	160	Megaphone	48
28	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	96	WideOrbit	68
29	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	60	Simplecast	73
30	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	306	Audioboom	52
31	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
32	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	647	Audioboom	48
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
34	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
35	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	264	Megaphone	59
36	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
37	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	563	Simplecast	49
38	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
39	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	668	Audioboom	42
40	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	978	Simplecast	59
41	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
42	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
43	Beware Book	Bauer Media	True Crime	8	Sharpstream	63
44	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
45	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
46	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	857	Megaphone	69
47	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
48	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
49	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
50	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	63
51	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	413	Megaphone	73
52	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	577	ART19	58
53	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	240	ART19	53
54	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	464	Audioboom	42
55	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	463	Simplecast	68
56	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	43	WideOrbit	62
57	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	494	ART19	52
58	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
59	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
60	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	44	Omny Studio	83
61	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	217	ART19	68
62	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	163	Megaphone	73
63	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
64	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	74	Spreaker	79
65	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	463	ART19	43
66	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
67	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
68	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
69	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
70	Unheard: True Crime in Their Own Words	Justin Shepherd	True Crime	24	ART19	73
71	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
72	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
73	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
74	The Burden	Orbit Media	True Crime	103	Omny Studio	53
75	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
76	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	73
77	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
78	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	386	Audioboom	37
79	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	87	WideOrbit	58
80	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
81	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	180	Megaphone	68
82	Murder on Songbird Road	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	12	Omny Studio	73
83	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
84	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	58
85	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	63
86	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	364	Audioboom	68
87	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	53	Simplecast	69
88	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	170	ART19	83
89	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
90	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	391	Acast	38
91	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	192	Omny Studio	52
92	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
93	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
94	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	326	Triton Digital	58
95	Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	58
96	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	444	Simplecast	68
97	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
98	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
99	To Live and Die in LA	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	35	WideOrbit	58
100	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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