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 20 Jul 2026

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07/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 309

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:47:45

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. Audible Original (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. ART19 (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 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	878	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
4	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
9	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
10	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
11	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
14	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
16	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
18	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
19	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
20	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
21	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
22	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
23	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
24	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
25	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
26	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
27	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A
28	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
29	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
30	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
31	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
32	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
33	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
34	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
35	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
36	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
37	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
38	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
39	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
40	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	53
41	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
42	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
43	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
44	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
45	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
46	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
47	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
48	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
49	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
50	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
51	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
52	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	18	ART19	63
53	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
54	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
55	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
56	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
57	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
58	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
59	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
60	Missing	Crawlspace Media	True Crime	727	Megaphone	69
61	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
62	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
63	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
64	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	15	Acast	69
65	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
66	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
67	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
68	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
69	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
70	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
71	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
72	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
73	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
74	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
75	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
76	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
77	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
78	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
79	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
80	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
81	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
82	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
83	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
84	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1272	Megaphone	27
85	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
86	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
87	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	562	Spotify for Podcasters	32
88	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
89	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
90	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
91	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
92	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
93	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
94	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
95	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
96	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
97	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
98	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
99	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
100	Kingdom of Fraud	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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