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 sept. 2026

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09/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 274

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:45:46

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. Audible (4 shows)

5. ABC News (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (17 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (11 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	886	Simplecast	68
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	855	Simplecast	53
4	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1117	WideOrbit	53
7	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	544	Simplecast	57
10	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	442	Audioboom	63
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1218	Omny Studio	38
12	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
13	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
14	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
15	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
16	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
17	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
18	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
19	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
20	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
21	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
22	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
23	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
24	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
25	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
26	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	178	Simplecast	63
27	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
28	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
29	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1205	Simplecast	58
30	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
31	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	58
32	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
33	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
34	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
35	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
36	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
37	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
38	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
39	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
40	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
41	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
42	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	650	Audioboom	42
43	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
44	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
45	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	83	Acast	53
46	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
47	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	10	ART19	73
48	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
49	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
50	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
51	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
52	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
53	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	638	Audioboom	48
54	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
55	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	224	ART19	53
56	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
57	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	552	Simplecast	49
58	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
59	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
60	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
61	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
62	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
63	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	42
64	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
65	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
66	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
67	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
68	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
69	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
70	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
71	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
72	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
73	Killer Summer	Scott A. Weiss	True Crime	3	RSS.com	68
74	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
75	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
76	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	162	Audioboom	53
77	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	437	Simplecast	68
78	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
79	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	64	Omny Studio	68
80	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
81	Missing on 9/11	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	17	Omny Studio	48
82	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	418	Megaphone	53
83	The Piketon Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	63	Omny Studio	89
84	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
85	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
86	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
87	Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial	WBUR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	32
88	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
89	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
90	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	81	WideOrbit	52
91	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
92	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
93	The Poisoned Wife	The Australian	True Crime	4	Omny Studio	69
94	To Live and Die in LA	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	35	WideOrbit	58
95	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
96	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
97	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	358	Audioboom	58
98	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
99	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	219	Omny Studio	53
100	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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