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 19 Sep 2025

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09/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 309

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:45:09

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (28 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (14 shows)

5. WideOrbit (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	871	Simplecast	53
2	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	533	Simplecast	63
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	897	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1135	WideOrbit	53
5	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1232	Omny Studio	38
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	561	Simplecast	57
10	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	184	Omny Studio	63
12	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	453	Simplecast	68
13	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
14	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
15	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
16	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
17	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
18	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	372	ART19	58
19	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
21	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	306	Audioboom	52
22	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	567	Simplecast	63
23	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
24	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	646	Audioboom	48
25	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1215	Simplecast	58
26	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
27	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
29	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	359	Megaphone	58
30	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	73
31	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	426	Acast	43
32	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
33	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	977	Simplecast	59
34	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	239	ART19	53
35	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	326	Triton Digital	58
36	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
37	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	160	Megaphone	48
38	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	192	Omny Studio	52
39	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
40	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	857	Megaphone	69
41	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
42	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
43	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
44	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	666	Audioboom	42
45	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	63
46	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
47	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
48	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	562	Simplecast	49
49	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
50	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	264	Megaphone	59
51	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
52	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
53	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
54	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	391	Acast	38
55	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	464	Audioboom	42
56	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	198	Megaphone	78
57	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	447	Simplecast	73
58	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	59	Megaphone	68
59	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
60	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	87	WideOrbit	58
61	Who Killed Angel Harris?	ID	True Crime	34	Acast	58
62	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
63	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	462	ART19	43
64	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	363	Audioboom	68
65	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
66	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	576	ART19	58
67	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	335	Megaphone	69
68	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
69	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	444	Simplecast	68
70	Julie's Gone	Casefile Presents	True Crime	8	Acast	59
71	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	412	Megaphone	73
72	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	137	ART19	53
73	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	428	Megaphone	53
74	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	727	Megaphone	49
75	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	159	Simplecast	68
76	The Missing Sister	Free Turn \| Wondery	True Crime	7	ART19	59
77	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	548	ART19	58
78	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	58
79	Creeps and Crimes Details temporarily unavailable	Taylar Fetzner, Morgan Harris	True Crime	406	ART19	63
80	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
81	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	217	ART19	68
82	Court Junkie	PodcastOne	True Crime	399	ART19	69
83	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	163	Megaphone	73
84	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
85	America's Crime Lab	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	True Crime	30	Omny Studio	83
86	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	240	WideOrbit	58
87	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	200	WideOrbit	58
88	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
89	Unrestorable	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	18	Omny Studio	63
90	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
91	The Deck Investigates	audiochuck	True Crime	34	Simplecast	89
92	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
93	Weird Little Guys	iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media	True Crime	105	Omny Studio	64
94	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	513	ART19	58
95	Up and Vanished Weekly	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	44	Megaphone	63
96	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	299	Megaphone	63
97	Devil in the Desert	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	69
98	Everything They Missed	Stephanie Tinsley	True Crime	20	ART19	53
99	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan	CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	587	Omny Studio	52
100	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	180	Megaphone	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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