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 Oct 2025

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10/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 289

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:45:15

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (7 shows)

2. NBC News (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (28 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. WideOrbit (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	877	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	900	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1143	WideOrbit	53
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1237	Omny Studio	38
7	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	566	Simplecast	57
9	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
10	The Surgeon Of St Helena	Always True Crime	True Crime	20	Acast	69
11	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	185	Omny Studio	63
13	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	The Preventionist	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	N/A	N/A
16	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
17	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
18	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
19	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	456	Simplecast	68
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
21	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
22	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
23	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	294	Simplecast	63
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
25	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	570	Simplecast	63
26	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
27	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	218	Omny Studio	69
28	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
29	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
30	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
31	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
32	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
33	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
34	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
35	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
36	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	859	Megaphone	69
37	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	648	Audioboom	48
39	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	244	ART19	53
40	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
41	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
42	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
43	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
44	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	143	WideOrbit	68
45	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
46	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	160	Megaphone	48
47	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
48	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	451	Simplecast	73
49	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
50	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	392	Acast	38
51	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
52	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
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	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	671	Audioboom	42
55	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
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	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
58	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
59	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
60	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
61	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	66	WideOrbit	52
62	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
63	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
64	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
65	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
66	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
67	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
68	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	327	Triton Digital	58
69	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
70	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
71	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	335	Megaphone	69
72	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
73	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	550	ART19	58
74	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
75	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
76	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
77	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	411	Audioboom	63
78	Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy	Blanchard House / Curiouscast	True Crime	11	Megaphone	53
79	The Chinatown Sting	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	69
80	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
81	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
82	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	243	Megaphone	48
83	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
84	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
85	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
86	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
87	West Cork	yarn fm	True Crime	16	Acast	59
88	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
89	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	58	WideOrbit	62
90	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
91	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
92	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
93	American Criminal	Airship & Evergreen Podcasts	True Crime	140	Megaphone	69
94	BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation	Mottafied Sound, LLC	True Crime	26	ART19	63
95	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
96	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
97	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
98	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
99	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	58
100	Hell and Gone	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	170	Omny Studio	84

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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