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 Apr 2026

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04/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 292

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:35

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (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. WideOrbit (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
9	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
11	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
12	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
13	Unheard: True Crime in Their Own Words	Justin Shepherd	True Crime	24	ART19	73
14	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
17	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
18	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
19	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
20	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
21	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
22	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
23	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
24	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
25	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
26	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
27	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
28	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
29	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
30	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
31	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
32	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
33	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
34	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
35	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
36	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
37	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
38	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
39	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
40	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
41	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
42	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
43	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
44	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
45	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
46	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
47	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
48	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
49	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
50	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
51	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
52	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
53	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
54	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
55	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
56	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
57	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
58	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
59	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
60	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
61	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
62	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
63	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	62
64	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
65	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
66	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
67	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
68	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
69	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
70	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
71	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
72	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
73	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
74	Residue: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Residue: A True Crime Podcast	True Crime	134	N/A	N/A
75	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
76	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
77	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
78	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
79	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
80	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
81	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
82	Beware Book	Bauer Media	True Crime	8	Sharpstream	63
83	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
84	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
85	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
86	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
87	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
88	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	365	Audioboom	58
89	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
90	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
91	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	243	Megaphone	48
92	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
93	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
94	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	143	WideOrbit	68
95	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
96	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
97	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
98	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
99	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
100	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53

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