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 23 Apr 2026

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04/23/2026

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Episodes: 295

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:46:02

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

4. NBC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (20 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	854	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
4	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
5	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1116	WideOrbit	53
6	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
9	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
10	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
12	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
13	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	178	Simplecast	63
14	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
16	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
17	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
18	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
20	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
21	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
22	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
23	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
24	Unheard: True Crime in Their Own Words	Justin Shepherd	True Crime	24	ART19	73
25	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	79	WideOrbit	68
26	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
27	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	64	Omny Studio	68
28	American Nightmares - Gardens of Evil: Inside The Zion Society Cult	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	84
29	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
30	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
31	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	965	Simplecast	59
32	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
33	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
34	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
35	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
36	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
37	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
38	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	638	Audioboom	48
39	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
40	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	650	Audioboom	42
41	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
42	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
43	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
44	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
45	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
46	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	552	Simplecast	49
47	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
48	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
49	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	224	ART19	53
50	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
51	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
52	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
53	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
54	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
55	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
56	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	847	Megaphone	69
57	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
58	The Michael Jackson Case for Innocence Podcast	@Case4Innocence	True Crime	26	Buzzsprout	47
59	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
60	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
61	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
62	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
63	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
64	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
65	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
66	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
67	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
68	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	719	Megaphone	49
69	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
70	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
71	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
72	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
73	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
74	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
75	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
76	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
77	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
78	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
79	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	417	Megaphone	53
80	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
81	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
82	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	73
83	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
84	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
85	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	54	Megaphone	68
86	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
87	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
88	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
89	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
90	Beware Book	Bauer Media	True Crime	8	Sharpstream	63
91	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
92	Residue: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Residue: A True Crime Podcast	True Crime	134	N/A	N/A
93	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	124	WideOrbit	68
94	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
95	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
96	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
97	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
98	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	226	WideOrbit	58
99	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	497	Megaphone	43
100	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	71	Spreaker	79

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