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 2026

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09/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 280

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:46:20

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. ABC News (4 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (11 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	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1119	WideOrbit	53
6	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	546	Simplecast	57
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
9	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
10	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	444	Audioboom	63
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
12	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark Details temporarily unavailable	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1220	Omny Studio	38
13	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
14	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
16	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
17	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	39	Omny Studio	83
18	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	540	ART19	58
19	Examined: The Backfire Effect Details temporarily unavailable	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	58
20	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	563	Simplecast	63
21	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
22	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
23	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
24	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
26	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	490	ART19	52
27	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	368	ART19	58
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
29	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
30	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
31	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
32	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
33	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
34	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
35	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
36	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
37	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
38	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
39	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	422	Acast	43
40	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
41	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
42	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
43	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
44	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
45	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
46	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
47	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	553	Simplecast	49
48	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
49	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	6	Megaphone	48
50	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	226	ART19	53
51	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	294	Megaphone	63
52	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	438	Simplecast	68
53	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
54	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
55	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
56	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	458	ART19	43
57	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
58	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	328	Megaphone	69
59	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
60	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	228	WideOrbit	58
61	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
62	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
63	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes Details temporarily unavailable	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
64	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
65	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
66	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	406	Audioboom	63
67	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	158	Simplecast	73
68	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
69	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	194	Megaphone	78
70	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	190	WideOrbit	58
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	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
74	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
75	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	52
76	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
77	Bone Valley Details temporarily unavailable	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	136	Omny Studio	73
78	Deep Cover Details temporarily unavailable	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	86	Omny Studio	63
79	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
80	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
81	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
82	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	440	Simplecast	73
83	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
84	Killer Summer	Scott A. Weiss	True Crime	3	RSS.com	68
85	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	178	Megaphone	68
86	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	134	ART19	53
87	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
88	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
89	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
90	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
91	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
92	What Came Next	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	195	Audioboom	73
93	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
94	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
95	True Crime Conversations Details temporarily unavailable	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	432	Omny Studio	48
96	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight Details temporarily unavailable	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	68
97	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	6	Omny Studio	42
98	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48
99	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	12	Acast	69
100	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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