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 22 May 2026

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05/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 303

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:46:17

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. ABC News (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (27 shows)

2. Simplecast (24 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (7 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	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
4	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
6	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
7	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
8	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
9	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
11	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
12	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1220	Simplecast	58
14	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
16	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
17	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
18	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
19	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
20	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
22	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
23	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
24	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
25	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
26	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
27	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	15	Acast	69
28	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
29	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
31	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
32	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
33	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
34	The Lindbergh Conspiracies	The Free Press	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
35	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	246	ART19	53
36	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
37	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
39	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
40	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
41	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
42	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
43	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
44	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	862	Megaphone	69
45	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
46	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
47	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
48	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
49	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
50	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
51	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
52	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
53	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
54	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
55	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
56	Kingdom of Fraud	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	83
57	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
58	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
59	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
60	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
61	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
62	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
63	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
64	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
65	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
66	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
67	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	454	Simplecast	73
68	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
69	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
70	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
71	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
72	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	73
73	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
74	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
75	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
76	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
77	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
78	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
79	While They Were Sleeping: The Pike County Murders	WCPO 9 News	True Crime	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
80	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
81	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
82	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
83	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
84	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
85	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	182	Simplecast	79
86	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
87	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
88	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
89	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	171	ART19	83
90	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	465	ART19	43
91	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	730	Megaphone	49
92	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
93	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
94	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
95	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
96	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
97	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
98	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	159	Simplecast	68
99	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
100	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	247	Megaphone	48

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