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 Sep 2026

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09/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 299

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:47:42

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. Audible (4 shows)

5. PodcastOne (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (14 shows)

5. Audioboom (12 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	890	Simplecast	68
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	860	Simplecast	53
4	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	445	Audioboom	63
7	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	550	Simplecast	57
9	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1222	Omny Studio	38
11	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1124	WideOrbit	53
12	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
13	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
14	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
15	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
16	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	40	Omny Studio	83
17	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
18	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
19	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
20	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
22	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
23	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
24	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
25	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	58
26	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
27	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
28	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
29	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
31	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
32	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	12	ART19	73
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
34	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
35	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
36	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
37	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
38	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
39	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
40	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
41	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
42	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
43	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
44	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
45	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
46	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
47	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
48	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
49	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
50	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	410	Megaphone	73
51	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
52	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
53	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
54	Crime Analyst	Laura Richards	True Crime	376	Megaphone	68
55	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
56	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	192	WideOrbit	58
57	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	573	ART19	58
58	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
59	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
60	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
61	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
62	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
63	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
64	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	461	Audioboom	42
65	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
66	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
67	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	16	ART19	79
68	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	63
69	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
70	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
71	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
72	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	420	Megaphone	53
73	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	68
74	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
75	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
76	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
77	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
78	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
79	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
80	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	360	Audioboom	58
81	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
82	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	165	ART19	83
83	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
84	Court Junkie	PodcastOne	True Crime	399	ART19	69
85	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
86	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
87	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
88	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
89	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	433	Omny Studio	48
90	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
91	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
92	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	42
93	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
94	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
95	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
96	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	311	Audioboom	73
97	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	92	Unknown	63
98	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
99	Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial	WBUR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	32
100	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1259	Megaphone	27

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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