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 Sep 2026

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09/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 287

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:46:55

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Audible (4 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (11 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	857	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
4	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
6	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1120	WideOrbit	53
7	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	547	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1220	Omny Studio	38
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
12	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
13	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	368	ART19	58
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	445	Audioboom	63
15	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	422	Acast	43
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	405	Megaphone	63
17	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	563	Simplecast	63
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1207	Simplecast	58
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	179	Simplecast	63
21	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	39	Omny Studio	83
22	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
23	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
24	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
25	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	540	ART19	58
26	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
27	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
29	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	490	ART19	52
30	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	58
31	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
32	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
33	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
34	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
35	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
36	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
37	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
38	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
39	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
40	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
41	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
42	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	553	Simplecast	49
44	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	226	ART19	53
45	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
46	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	6	Megaphone	48
47	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	295	Megaphone	63
48	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
49	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	639	Audioboom	48
50	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
51	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
52	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
53	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
54	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
55	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
56	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
57	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	438	Simplecast	68
58	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
59	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
60	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	440	Simplecast	73
61	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
62	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
63	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	409	Megaphone	73
64	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
65	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	19	Megaphone	58
66	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	69	ART19	63
68	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	228	WideOrbit	58
69	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
70	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	191	WideOrbit	58
71	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
72	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
73	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
74	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
75	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	406	Audioboom	63
76	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
77	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	387	Acast	38
78	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
79	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	82	WideOrbit	52
80	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	551	Spotify for Podcasters	32
81	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
82	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
83	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
84	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	68
85	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	194	Megaphone	78
86	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
87	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	329	Megaphone	69
88	Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial	WBUR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	32
89	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
90	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
91	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	573	ART19	58
92	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	12	Acast	69
93	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	90	Unknown	63
94	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
95	Crime Salad	BLACKCAT \| Realm	True Crime	287	Megaphone	59
96	Legally Brunette Details temporarily unavailable	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	222	Omny Studio	53
97	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
98	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	371	Audioboom	37
99	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	71	Spreaker	79
100	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	461	Audioboom	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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