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 Sep 2026

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09/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 298

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:48:01

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Audible (4 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. PodcastOne (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (15 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	859	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
4	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
7	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
9	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1122	WideOrbit	53
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	548	Simplecast	57
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	444	Audioboom	63
12	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1221	Omny Studio	38
13	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	180	Simplecast	63
14	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	180	Omny Studio	63
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	406	Megaphone	63
16	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	563	Simplecast	63
17	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	368	ART19	58
18	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	40	Omny Studio	83
19	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
21	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	540	ART19	58
22	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
23	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
24	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
25	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
26	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1208	Simplecast	58
27	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	422	Acast	43
28	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
29	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	66	Spreaker	84
30	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	490	ART19	52
31	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
32	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	58
33	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
34	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
35	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	291	Simplecast	63
36	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
37	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	260	Megaphone	59
38	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
39	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	11	ART19	73
40	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	652	Audioboom	42
41	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	555	Simplecast	49
42	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
43	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
44	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	6	Megaphone	48
45	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
46	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
47	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
48	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
49	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
50	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	84	Acast	53
51	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	165	ART19	83
52	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
53	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	295	Megaphone	63
54	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	409	Megaphone	73
55	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
56	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
57	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	63
58	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	227	ART19	53
59	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
60	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
61	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	200	WideOrbit	63
62	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	229	WideOrbit	58
63	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	573	ART19	58
64	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	191	WideOrbit	58
65	Crime Analyst	Laura Richards	True Crime	375	Megaphone	68
66	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	49	ART19	79
67	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
68	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	49	Simplecast	69
69	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	461	Audioboom	42
70	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	329	Megaphone	69
71	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
72	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
73	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
74	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
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	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
77	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
78	The Burden	Orbit Media	True Crime	103	Omny Studio	53
79	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
80	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
81	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	225	Omny Studio	53
82	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
83	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	68
84	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
85	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
86	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
87	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
88	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
89	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	439	Simplecast	68
90	True Crime Conversations	Mamamia Podcasts	True Crime	432	Omny Studio	48
91	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	552	Spotify for Podcasters	32
92	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
93	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	160	Simplecast	73
94	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
95	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	4	Captivate	42
96	Cold	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	92	Unknown	63
97	Court Junkie	PodcastOne	True Crime	399	ART19	69
98	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
99	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	311	Audioboom	73
100	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1255	Megaphone	27

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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