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 24 Apr 2026

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04/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 301

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:28

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. WideOrbit (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
6	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
9	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
12	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
14	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
16	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1220	Simplecast	58
18	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
19	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
20	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
21	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
22	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
23	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
24	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
26	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
27	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
28	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
29	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
30	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
31	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	27	Omny Studio	63
32	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
33	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
34	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
35	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
36	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
37	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
38	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
39	Unheard: True Crime in Their Own Words	Justin Shepherd	True Crime	24	ART19	73
40	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
41	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
42	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
43	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
44	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	246	ART19	53
45	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
46	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
47	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
48	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
49	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	862	Megaphone	69
50	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
51	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
52	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
53	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
54	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
55	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
56	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	730	Megaphone	49
57	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
58	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
59	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
60	The Michael Jackson Case for Innocence Podcast	@Case4Innocence	True Crime	26	Buzzsprout	47
61	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
62	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
63	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
64	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
65	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
66	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
67	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
68	Intrigue	BBC Radio 4	True Crime	130	BBC	53
69	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
70	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
71	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
72	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
73	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
74	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
75	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	454	Simplecast	73
76	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
77	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
78	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	247	Megaphone	48
79	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
80	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	73
81	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
82	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	48	WideOrbit	62
83	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
84	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
85	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
86	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
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	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	465	ART19	43
89	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
90	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
91	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
92	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
93	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
94	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
95	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
96	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
97	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	159	Simplecast	68
98	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
99	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	144	WideOrbit	68
100	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68

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