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 21 Jan 2026

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01/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 301

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:46:20

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. ID (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (11 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	531	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	861	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1127	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	1224	Omny Studio	38
7	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
8	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	552	Simplecast	57
10	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
11	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
12	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
15	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1210	Simplecast	58
17	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
18	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
21	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
22	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
23	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
24	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
25	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
26	One of Their Own	KPBS	True Crime	7	StreamGuys	59
27	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
28	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
29	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
30	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
31	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
32	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
33	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
34	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
35	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
36	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
37	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
38	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
39	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
40	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	231	ART19	53
41	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
42	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
43	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
44	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
45	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
46	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
47	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
48	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
49	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
50	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
51	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
52	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
53	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
54	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
55	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
56	Under Cover of Knight	Apple TV+ / Spoke Media	True Crime	12	ART19	83
57	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
58	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	378	Audioboom	37
59	Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy	Blanchard House / Curiouscast	True Crime	11	Megaphone	53
60	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
61	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
62	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
63	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
64	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
65	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
66	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
68	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
69	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
70	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
71	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
72	Who Took Misty Copsey?	ID	True Crime	31	Acast	69
73	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
74	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
75	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
76	Killer Kin	ID	True Crime	61	Acast	59
77	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
78	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	442	Simplecast	73
79	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
80	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
81	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	312	Audioboom	73
82	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
83	Toil and Trouble	Always True Crime	True Crime	8	Acast	59
84	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
85	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
86	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
87	Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer	iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	53
88	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	54	WideOrbit	62
89	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
90	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	422	Megaphone	53
91	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
92	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
93	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
94	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	441	Simplecast	68
95	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
96	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	362	Audioboom	58
97	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
98	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
99	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
100	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	129	WideOrbit	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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