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 17 Apr 2026

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04/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 288

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:15

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	531	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	861	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
4	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
8	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
9	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
10	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
12	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
13	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
16	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
18	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
21	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
22	Unheard: True Crime in Their Own Words	Justin Shepherd	True Crime	24	ART19	73
23	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
24	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
25	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
26	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
27	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
28	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
29	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
30	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
31	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
32	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
33	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
34	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
35	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
36	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
37	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
38	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
39	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
40	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
41	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
42	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
43	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
44	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
45	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
46	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
47	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48
48	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
49	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
50	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
51	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
52	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
53	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
54	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
55	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
56	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
57	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
58	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
59	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
60	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
61	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
62	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
63	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
64	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
65	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
66	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	83
67	Beware Book	Bauer Media	True Crime	8	Sharpstream	63
68	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
69	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
70	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
71	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
72	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
73	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
74	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
75	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
76	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
77	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
78	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
79	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
80	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
81	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
82	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
83	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
84	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
85	Big Mad True Crime	Big Mad Media \| Daylight Media	True Crime	442	Megaphone	53
86	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
87	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
88	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
89	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
90	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
91	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
92	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
93	Murder on Songbird Road	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	12	Omny Studio	73
94	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
95	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
96	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
97	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
98	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
99	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	230	Omny Studio	53
100	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	153	Simplecast	68

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