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 May 2026

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05/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 312

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:47:55

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
10	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
12	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
16	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
17	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
18	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	15	Acast	69
19	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
20	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
21	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
22	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
23	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
25	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
26	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
27	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
29	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
30	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
31	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
32	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
33	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
34	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
35	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
36	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
37	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
39	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
40	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
41	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
42	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
43	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
44	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
45	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
46	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
47	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
48	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
49	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
50	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
51	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
52	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
53	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
54	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
55	Kingdom of Fraud	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	83
56	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
57	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
58	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
59	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
60	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
61	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
62	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
63	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
64	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
65	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
66	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
67	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	181	Simplecast	79
68	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
69	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
70	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
71	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
72	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
73	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
74	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	365	Audioboom	58
75	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
76	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
77	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
78	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
79	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
80	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
81	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan	CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	587	Omny Studio	52
82	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
83	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
85	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
86	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
87	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
88	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	562	Spotify for Podcasters	32
89	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
90	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	143	WideOrbit	68
91	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
92	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
93	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
94	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
95	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
96	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
97	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
98	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
99	A Date With Dateline	Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL	True Crime	533	Libsyn	53
100	Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	58

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