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 18 Sep 2026

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09/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 280

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:45:50

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	856	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	887	Simplecast	68
5	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
6	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1119	WideOrbit	53
7	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	546	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1219	Omny Studio	38
11	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
13	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	444	Audioboom	63
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
16	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
17	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
18	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	58
19	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	539	ART19	58
20	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	562	Simplecast	63
21	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
22	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
23	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
24	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
25	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
26	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
27	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
28	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
29	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
30	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
31	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
32	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
34	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
35	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
36	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
37	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
39	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
40	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
41	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
42	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
43	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
44	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
45	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
46	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
47	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
48	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
49	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
50	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
51	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
52	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
53	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	553	Simplecast	49
54	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
55	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	6	Megaphone	48
56	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	458	ART19	43
57	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	225	ART19	53
58	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	328	Megaphone	69
59	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
60	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
61	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	194	Megaphone	78
62	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
63	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	81	WideOrbit	52
64	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
65	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	228	WideOrbit	58
66	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	158	Simplecast	73
68	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	190	WideOrbit	58
69	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
70	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
71	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
72	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	69	ART19	63
73	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	178	Megaphone	68
74	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
75	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
76	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	438	Simplecast	68
77	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
78	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	440	Simplecast	73
79	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	42
80	Killer Summer	Scott A. Weiss	True Crime	3	RSS.com	68
81	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
82	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
83	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
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	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
86	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	430	Omny Studio	48
87	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
88	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
89	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	68
90	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
91	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	55	Megaphone	68
92	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	64	Omny Studio	68
93	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
94	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
95	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	294	Megaphone	63
96	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
97	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	12	Acast	69
98	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
99	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
100	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	721	Megaphone	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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