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 May 2026

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05/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 293

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:46:08

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. ABC News (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	53
2	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	35	Omny Studio	63
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	879	Simplecast	53
4	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	902	Simplecast	68
6	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
7	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1148	WideOrbit	53
8	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	570	Simplecast	57
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1240	Omny Studio	38
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
12	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1222	Simplecast	58
13	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	63
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	572	Simplecast	63
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
17	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
19	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
20	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
21	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
22	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
23	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
24	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
25	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
26	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
27	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	77	Acast	63
28	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
29	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
30	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
31	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
32	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	15	Acast	69
33	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	247	ART19	53
34	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
35	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	567	Simplecast	49
36	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
37	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
38	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
39	The Lindbergh Conspiracies	The Free Press	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
40	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
41	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	982	Simplecast	59
42	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	674	Audioboom	42
43	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	862	Megaphone	69
44	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
45	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
46	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
47	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
48	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	207	WideOrbit	63
49	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
50	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
51	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
52	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	650	Audioboom	48
53	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
54	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
55	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	26	Megaphone	58
56	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	195	Omny Studio	52
57	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
58	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
59	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	416	Megaphone	73
60	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
61	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
62	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
63	While They Were Sleeping: The Pike County Murders	WCPO 9 News	True Crime	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
64	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
65	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
66	Kingdom of Fraud	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	83
67	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	200	Megaphone	78
68	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
69	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald	True Crime	62	Megaphone	62
70	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
71	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
72	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
73	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
74	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
75	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	73	Omny Studio	73
76	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
77	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
78	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
79	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
80	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
81	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
82	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
83	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	99	Unknown	63
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	63
85	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
86	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	455	Simplecast	73
87	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
88	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
89	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
90	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	184	Simplecast	79
91	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	579	ART19	58
92	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
93	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	145	WideOrbit	68
94	The Rachel Cancer Scam	The Messenger	True Crime	48	ART19	83
95	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
96	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	466	Audioboom	42
97	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	249	Megaphone	48
98	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
99	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	137	ART19	53
100	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68

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