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 Sep 2026

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09/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 290

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:48:07

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	856	Simplecast	53
3	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
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	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
9	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
10	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
11	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
12	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark Details temporarily unavailable	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1220	Omny Studio	38
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	444	Audioboom	63
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
15	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	563	Simplecast	63
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
17	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
18	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
19	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
21	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	39	Omny Studio	83
22	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	422	Acast	43
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	540	ART19	58
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
25	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	368	ART19	58
26	Examined: The Backfire Effect Details temporarily unavailable	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	58
27	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
28	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
29	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	490	ART19	52
30	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
31	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
32	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
33	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
34	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
35	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
36	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
37	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
38	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
39	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
40	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
41	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
42	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	553	Simplecast	49
43	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
44	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	226	ART19	53
45	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	294	Megaphone	63
46	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
47	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
48	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
49	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	6	Megaphone	48
50	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
51	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	438	Simplecast	68
52	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
53	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	458	ART19	43
54	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
55	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
56	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
57	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
58	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
59	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
60	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	228	WideOrbit	58
61	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
62	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
63	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	440	Simplecast	73
64	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
65	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	406	Audioboom	63
66	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
67	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	190	WideOrbit	58
68	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
69	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	328	Megaphone	69
70	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
71	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	69	ART19	63
72	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
73	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
74	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	52
75	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
76	Deep Cover Details temporarily unavailable	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	86	Omny Studio	63
77	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
78	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	194	Megaphone	78
79	Bone Valley Details temporarily unavailable	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	136	Omny Studio	73
80	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	71	Spreaker	79
81	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
82	Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial	WBUR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	32
83	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	158	Simplecast	73
84	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	551	Spotify for Podcasters	32
85	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
86	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight Details temporarily unavailable	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	68
87	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
88	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	134	ART19	53
89	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
90	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
91	What Came Next	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	195	Audioboom	73
92	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
93	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
94	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
95	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	178	Megaphone	68
96	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
97	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	239	Megaphone	48
98	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
99	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	12	Acast	69
100	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1252	Megaphone	27

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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