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 25 Apr 2026

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04/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 299

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:18

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 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. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. WideOrbit (10 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	880	Simplecast	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1149	WideOrbit	53
6	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	571	Simplecast	57
8	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1241	Omny Studio	38
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	63
12	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
13	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
14	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1223	Simplecast	58
16	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
17	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
18	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	572	Simplecast	63
20	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	553	ART19	58
21	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
22	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
23	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
24	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
25	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	108	WideOrbit	68
26	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	309	Audioboom	52
27	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	56	Simplecast	69
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	296	Simplecast	63
29	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	63
30	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	76	ART19	63
31	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
32	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
33	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
34	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
35	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
36	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
37	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
38	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	207	WideOrbit	63
39	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
40	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	982	Simplecast	59
41	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	675	Audioboom	42
42	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
43	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
44	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	248	ART19	63
45	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
46	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	567	Simplecast	49
47	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
48	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
49	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
50	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
51	Unheard: True Crime in Their Own Words	Justin Shepherd	True Crime	24	ART19	73
52	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	863	Megaphone	69
53	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
54	Intrigue	BBC Radio 4	True Crime	131	BBC	53
55	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
56	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	734	Megaphone	49
57	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
58	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
59	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	185	Simplecast	79
60	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	651	Audioboom	48
61	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
62	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
63	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
64	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
65	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
66	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	195	Omny Studio	52
67	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
68	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	417	Megaphone	73
69	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
70	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
71	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
72	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	337	Megaphone	69
73	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
74	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
75	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
76	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
77	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	394	Acast	38
78	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	200	Megaphone	78
79	La Gata	The Ringer	True Crime	5	Megaphone	53
80	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
81	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
82	The Michael Jackson Case for Innocence Podcast	@Case4Innocence	True Crime	26	Buzzsprout	47
83	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	250	Megaphone	48
84	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	248	WideOrbit	58
85	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	73
86	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	413	Audioboom	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	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
89	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	455	Simplecast	73
90	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	58
91	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	401	Audioboom	37
92	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	73	Omny Studio	73
93	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
94	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	63
95	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	579	ART19	58
96	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	145	WideOrbit	68
97	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	466	Audioboom	42
98	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
99	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	50	WideOrbit	62
100	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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