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 Oct 2025

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10/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 284

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:45:23

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (7 shows)

2. NBC News (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. ABC News (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (28 shows)

2. Simplecast (20 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 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	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1125	WideOrbit	53
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
8	The Surgeon Of St Helena	Always True Crime	True Crime	20	Acast	69
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
10	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
11	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
12	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
14	The Preventionist	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	N/A	N/A
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
16	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
17	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
18	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
19	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
20	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
22	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
23	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
24	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
25	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
26	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
27	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
28	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
29	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
30	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
31	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
32	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
33	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
34	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
35	Crime Salad	BLACKCAT \| Realm	True Crime	288	Megaphone	59
36	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
37	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
38	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
39	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
40	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	129	WideOrbit	68
41	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
42	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	58	WideOrbit	62
43	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
44	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
45	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
46	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
47	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
48	The Chinatown Sting	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	69
49	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	178	Megaphone	68
50	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
51	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
52	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
53	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
54	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
55	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
56	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
57	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
58	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
59	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
60	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
61	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
62	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
63	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
64	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
65	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
66	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
67	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
68	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
69	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
70	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
71	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
72	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
73	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
74	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
75	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
76	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
77	America's Crime Lab	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	True Crime	30	Omny Studio	83
78	Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy	Blanchard House / Curiouscast	True Crime	11	Megaphone	53
79	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
80	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
81	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
82	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
83	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
84	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
85	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
86	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
87	West Cork	yarn fm	True Crime	16	Acast	59
88	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
89	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	421	Megaphone	53
90	BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation	Mottafied Sound, LLC	True Crime	26	ART19	63
91	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
92	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
93	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	361	Audioboom	58
94	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
95	American Criminal	Airship & Evergreen Podcasts	True Crime	140	Megaphone	69
96	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
97	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
98	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
99	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
100	Wild Boys	Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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