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 Feb 2026

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02/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 286

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:44:53

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. Audioboom (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. ART19 (11 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	853	Simplecast	53
2	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1115	WideOrbit	53
5	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
6	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
10	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	9	Megaphone	64
11	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
12	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
14	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
15	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
16	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
17	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
18	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
21	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
22	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
23	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
24	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
25	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	177	Simplecast	73
26	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
27	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
28	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	560	Simplecast	63
29	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
30	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
31	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
32	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
33	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
35	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
36	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	365	Audioboom	37
37	The Girl in the Blue Mustang	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	58
38	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
39	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	964	Simplecast	59
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
41	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
42	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
43	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
44	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	22	Megaphone	69
45	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	223	ART19	53
46	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	54	Audioboom	73
47	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
48	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
49	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
50	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
51	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
52	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	719	Simplecast	49
53	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	846	Megaphone	69
54	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	648	Audioboom	42
55	Finding Nancy Guthrie	The Daily Wire	News	16	Simplecast	53
56	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
57	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
58	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
59	Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno	FOX News Podcasts	True Crime	3	Megaphone	48
60	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
61	Everything They Missed	Stephanie Tinsley/Audacy/TFTV	True Crime	13	Megaphone	59
62	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	71	Spreaker	79
63	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	637	Audioboom	48
64	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	719	Megaphone	49
65	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
66	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
67	BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	22	Megaphone	59
68	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
69	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
70	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
71	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
72	American Criminal	Airship & Evergreen Podcasts	True Crime	140	Megaphone	69
73	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
74	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
75	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
76	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
77	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
78	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
79	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
80	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	358	Audioboom	68
81	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
82	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	225	WideOrbit	58
83	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
85	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
86	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
87	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
88	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
89	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
90	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
91	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
92	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
93	The Knife: A True Crime Podcast	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	49	Omny Studio	58
94	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
95	American Nightmares - Gardens of Evil: Inside The Zion Society Cult	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	84
96	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
97	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
98	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
99	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
100	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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