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 Aug 2026

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08/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 288

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:46:27

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. ABC News (6 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. Audible (3 shows)

5. Crime House (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. ART19 (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	853	Simplecast	53
3	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1115	WideOrbit	53
6	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
7	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
9	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
12	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
13	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	560	Simplecast	63
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
17	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
19	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
21	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
22	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
23	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
24	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	54	Audioboom	73
25	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
26	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
27	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
29	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
30	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
31	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
32	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
33	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	18	RSS.com	52
34	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
35	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
36	The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani	ESPN	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
37	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
38	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	456	Libsyn	52
39	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	523	Megaphone	64
40	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
41	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
42	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
43	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
44	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
45	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
46	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
47	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
48	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	83	Acast	53
49	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
50	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
51	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
52	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
53	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
54	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	10	ART19	73
55	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
56	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	4	Megaphone	48
57	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
58	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
59	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
60	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
61	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
62	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	154	Simplecast	73
63	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
64	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
65	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
66	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
67	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
68	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
69	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	18	Megaphone	58
70	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
71	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
72	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
73	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
74	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
75	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
76	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
77	Intrigue	BBC Radio 4	True Crime	134	BBC	53
78	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
79	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	225	WideOrbit	58
80	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	54	Megaphone	68
81	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
82	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
83	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
84	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	358	Audioboom	68
85	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
86	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
87	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
88	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	217	Omny Studio	53
89	PRETEND	Creative Babble, LLC	True Crime	320	Megaphone	84
90	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
91	Pretty Lies And Alibis	GiGi McKelvey	True Crime	1000	Spreaker	64
92	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	22	Megaphone	69
93	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
94	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
95	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network	True Crime	23	N/A	N/A
96	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
97	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
98	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
99	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
100	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A

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