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 2026

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10/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 261

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:45:08

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. ABC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. NBC News (5 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	534	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	875	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	900	Simplecast	68
5	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	185	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1141	WideOrbit	53
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	566	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1236	Omny Studio	38
10	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
11	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	550	ART19	58
12	Heart	Apple TV / Plan B / Blanchard House	True Crime	5	ART19	73
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1217	Simplecast	58
14	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	11	Captivate	78
15	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
17	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	25	Megaphone	63
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	456	Simplecast	68
19	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
20	My Mom’s Murder	AYR Media	True Crime	7	ART19	53
21	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
22	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
23	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	570	Simplecast	63
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
25	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	57	WideOrbit	62
26	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
27	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	183	Simplecast	63
28	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	160	Megaphone	48
29	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
30	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	7	WideOrbit	48
31	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
32	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	294	Simplecast	63
34	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	670	Audioboom	42
35	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
36	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	9	Megaphone	58
37	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
38	The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story	ABC News	True Crime	4	Megaphone	42
39	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
40	Morrison Mysteries	NBC News	True Crime	23	Simplecast	69
41	The Gilded Rage	AYR Media	True Crime	4	RedCircle	63
42	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	97	Unknown	63
43	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	242	ART19	53
44	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	564	Simplecast	49
45	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	446	Simplecast	68
46	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
47	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
48	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	60	Simplecast	73
49	Heist at the Louvre	ABC News	True Crime	5	Megaphone	53
50	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
51	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
52	BABY	Particle Entertainment and Wavland	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
53	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	63
54	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
55	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	44	Omny Studio	63
56	Bad Blood: The Final Chapter	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	53
57	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	978	Simplecast	59
58	The Slippery	Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge	True Crime	54	Megaphone	53
59	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	76	Spreaker	79
60	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
61	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
62	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	89	Acast	53
63	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
64	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
65	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
66	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	58
67	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	63
68	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	647	Audioboom	48
69	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
70	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	70	Omny Studio	73
71	Who Killed Angel Harris?	ID	True Crime	35	Acast	58
72	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	411	Audioboom	63
73	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	193	Omny Studio	52
74	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
75	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	327	Triton Digital	58
76	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	198	Megaphone	78
77	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
78	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
79	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
80	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
81	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	364	Audioboom	68
82	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	392	Acast	38
83	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	244	WideOrbit	58
84	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
85	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	17	ART19	63
86	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	74	ART19	63
87	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	88	WideOrbit	58
88	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	448	Simplecast	73
89	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	171	ART19	83
90	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	15	ART19	59
91	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	24	Megaphone	58
92	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
93	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
94	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
95	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	178	Simplecast	79
96	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
97	The Poisoned Wife	The Australian	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	89
98	Devil Town	Free Range Productions	True Crime	20	Spreaker	74
99	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
100	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	219	ART19	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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