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 Jul 2026

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07/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 314

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:46:55

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. Audible Original (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Audioboom (11 shows)

5. Omny Studio (9 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	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
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	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
10	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
11	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
12	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
13	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
14	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
15	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
17	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
18	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
19	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
22	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
23	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
24	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
26	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
27	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
29	The Last 12 Weeks	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	6	N/A	N/A
30	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
31	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	18	ART19	63
32	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
33	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
34	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
35	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
36	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
37	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
38	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
39	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
40	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
41	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	53
42	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
43	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
44	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
45	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
46	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
47	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
48	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
49	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
50	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
51	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
52	Missing	Crawlspace Media	True Crime	727	Megaphone	69
53	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
54	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
55	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
56	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
57	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
58	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
59	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
60	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
61	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
62	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
63	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
64	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
65	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
66	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	15	Acast	69
67	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
68	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
69	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
70	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
71	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
72	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
73	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
74	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	452	Simplecast	73
75	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
76	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
77	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
78	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
79	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
80	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
81	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
82	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
83	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
84	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	316	Audioboom	73
85	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	62
86	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
87	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
88	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1272	Megaphone	27
89	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
90	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
91	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
92	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
93	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
94	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
95	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
96	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	365	Audioboom	58
97	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
98	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
99	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
100	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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