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 16 sept. 2026

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09/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 271

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:45:54

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Audible (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (16 shows)

4. ART19 (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	858	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	1121	WideOrbit	53
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
8	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	547	Simplecast	57
10	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	445	Audioboom	63
12	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1220	Omny Studio	38
13	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
14	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	58
15	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	66	Spreaker	84
16	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
17	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	180	Simplecast	63
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
19	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	540	ART19	58
20	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
21	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	368	ART19	58
22	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	39	Omny Studio	83
23	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
24	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
25	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
26	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	490	ART19	52
27	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
28	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
29	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	563	Simplecast	63
30	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
31	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	422	Acast	43
32	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
33	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	406	Megaphone	63
34	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
35	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
36	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
37	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
38	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
39	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
40	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
41	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
42	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
43	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	967	Simplecast	59
44	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
45	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
46	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
47	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
48	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	554	Simplecast	49
49	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
50	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
51	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
52	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
53	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
54	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	409	Megaphone	73
55	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
56	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
57	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	165	ART19	83
58	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
59	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
60	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
61	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	461	Audioboom	42
62	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	573	ART19	58
63	Killer Summer	Scott A. Weiss	True Crime	3	RSS.com	68
64	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
65	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	42
66	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
67	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
68	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	191	WideOrbit	58
69	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	227	ART19	53
70	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
71	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
72	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
73	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
74	Missing on 9/11	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	17	Omny Studio	48
75	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
76	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
77	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	295	Megaphone	63
78	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
79	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
80	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
81	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	329	Megaphone	69
82	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	68
83	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	162	Audioboom	53
84	The Poisoned Wife	The Australian	True Crime	5	Omny Studio	69
85	The Piketon Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	63	Omny Studio	89
86	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	12	Acast	69
87	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	438	Simplecast	68
88	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
89	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	52
90	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	225	Omny Studio	53
91	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
92	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	552	Spotify for Podcasters	32
93	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
94	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	159	Simplecast	73
95	To Live and Die in LA	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	35	WideOrbit	58
96	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
97	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	194	Megaphone	78
98	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A
99	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
100	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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