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 Dec 2025

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12/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 279

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:15

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (8 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

4. Audiochuck (5 shows)

5. CBC (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (17 shows)

4. ART19 (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	856	Simplecast	53
3	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	887	Simplecast	68
5	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
6	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1119	WideOrbit	53
7	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1219	Omny Studio	38
9	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	546	Simplecast	57
11	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
12	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
13	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
14	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
16	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
17	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
19	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	444	Audioboom	63
20	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
21	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
22	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
23	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
24	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	562	Simplecast	63
25	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
26	The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron	Casefile Presents	True Crime	10	Acast	43
27	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
28	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
29	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
30	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
31	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
32	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
33	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
34	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
35	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
36	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
37	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
38	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
39	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
40	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
41	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	225	ART19	53
42	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	539	ART19	58
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	553	Simplecast	49
44	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
45	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
46	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
47	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	848	Megaphone	69
48	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
49	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
50	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	458	ART19	43
51	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
52	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
53	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
54	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
55	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
56	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
57	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	8	Triton Digital	63
58	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
59	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
60	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
61	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
62	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	81	WideOrbit	52
63	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
64	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
65	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
66	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
67	What Happened in Nashville	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	63
68	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
69	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
70	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
71	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
72	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
73	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
74	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
75	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	294	Megaphone	63
76	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
77	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
78	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
79	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
80	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
81	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
82	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
83	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
84	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	219	Omny Studio	53
85	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	73
86	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
87	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	190	WideOrbit	58
88	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
89	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48
90	Forged	CBC + ABC	True Crime	7	Triton Digital	59
91	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
92	Spotlight: Snitch City	The Boston Globe Spotlight Team	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
93	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	178	Megaphone	68
94	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	440	Simplecast	73
95	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
96	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	406	Audioboom	63
97	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
98	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
99	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
100	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	228	WideOrbit	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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