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 Sep 2026

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09/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 295

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:47:17

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	531	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	861	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	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	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
8	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
9	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
10	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
11	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1125	WideOrbit	53
12	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
13	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
15	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	83
16	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	3	WideOrbit	48
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
18	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
21	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
22	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
23	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
24	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
25	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
26	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
27	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
28	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
29	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
30	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
31	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
32	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
33	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
34	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	68	Omny Studio	58
35	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
36	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
37	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
38	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
39	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
40	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
41	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
42	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
43	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
44	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
45	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	92	Unknown	63
46	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
47	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
48	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	12	ART19	73
49	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
50	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
51	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
52	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
53	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
54	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
55	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
56	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
57	The Burden	Orbit Media	True Crime	103	Omny Studio	53
58	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
59	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	165	ART19	83
60	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
61	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
62	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
63	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
64	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
65	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	63
66	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
67	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
68	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
69	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
70	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
71	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
72	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
73	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
74	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
75	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
76	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
77	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
78	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
79	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
80	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
81	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
82	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
83	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
84	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
85	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
86	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
87	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	421	Megaphone	53
88	Crime Analyst	Laura Richards	True Crime	377	Megaphone	68
89	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
90	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	555	Spotify for Podcasters	32
91	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
92	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
93	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
94	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
95	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
96	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
97	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
98	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	511	ART19	58
99	American Monster: The Trial Of Caleb Flynn	Hidden Killers Podcast	True Crime	76	Audioboom	53
100	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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