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 Oct 2025

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10/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 274

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:43:10

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. NBC News (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (27 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (17 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. WideOrbit (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	879	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	902	Simplecast	68
4	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1148	WideOrbit	53
6	The Preventionist	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	N/A	N/A
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1240	Omny Studio	38
8	Wild Boys	Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	59
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	570	Simplecast	57
10	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
11	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	63
13	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
14	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1222	Simplecast	58
15	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
16	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
17	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
18	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
19	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
21	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	73	Omny Studio	73
22	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
23	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
25	The Surgeon Of St Helena	Always True Crime	True Crime	20	Acast	69
26	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	572	Simplecast	63
27	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
28	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
29	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
30	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	674	Audioboom	42
31	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
32	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	207	WideOrbit	63
33	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	862	Megaphone	69
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
35	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
36	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
37	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
38	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
39	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
40	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	68	WideOrbit	62
41	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
42	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	650	Audioboom	48
43	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
44	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald	True Crime	62	Megaphone	62
45	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	982	Simplecast	59
46	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
47	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	567	Simplecast	49
48	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
49	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	145	WideOrbit	68
50	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	247	ART19	53
51	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
52	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
53	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
54	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
55	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	416	Megaphone	73
56	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
57	BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation	Mottafied Sound, LLC	True Crime	26	ART19	63
58	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	455	Simplecast	73
59	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
60	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
61	Crying Wolf	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	4	Omny Studio	69
62	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
63	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
64	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	195	Omny Studio	52
65	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
66	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
67	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
68	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
69	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	60	WideOrbit	62
70	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
71	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	631	Megaphone	53
72	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
73	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
74	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
75	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
76	The Chinatown Sting	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	69
77	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	63
78	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
79	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
80	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
81	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
82	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
83	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
84	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
85	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
86	Mr. Nightmare Podcast	Mr. Nightmare	True Crime	105	Spotify for Podcasters	32
87	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	200	Megaphone	78
88	Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan Details temporarily unavailable	Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan	True Crime	266	N/A	N/A
89	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
90	America's Crime Lab	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	True Crime	30	Omny Studio	83
91	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
92	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
93	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	466	Audioboom	42
94	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
95	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	579	ART19	58
96	The Rachel Cancer Scam	The Messenger	True Crime	48	ART19	83
97	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
98	The Missing Sister	Free Turn \| Wondery	True Crime	7	ART19	59
99	Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy	Blanchard House / Curiouscast	True Crime	11	Megaphone	53
100	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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