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 26 Mar 2026

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03/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 296

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:45:36

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	854	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1116	WideOrbit	53
6	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	8	Simplecast	58
7	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
9	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
12	Fraudacious	Novel in association with BBC Studios	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	64
13	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	178	Simplecast	63
14	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
15	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
16	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
19	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
20	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
22	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
23	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
24	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
25	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
26	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	965	Simplecast	59
27	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
28	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
29	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
30	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
31	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	638	Audioboom	48
32	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
33	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
34	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	489	ART19	52
35	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
36	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	38	Omny Studio	83
37	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	552	Simplecast	49
38	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
39	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	79	WideOrbit	68
40	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	224	ART19	53
41	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
42	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
43	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
44	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
45	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	847	Megaphone	69
46	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	650	Audioboom	42
47	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
48	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
49	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
50	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
51	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
52	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
53	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
54	City of Lights	Willy Nast	True Crime	7	Libsyn	79
55	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
56	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
57	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
58	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
59	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
60	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
61	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	365	Audioboom	37
62	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	523	Megaphone	64
63	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
64	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
65	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	48	Simplecast	79
66	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	164	ART19	83
67	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	71	Spreaker	79
68	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
69	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
70	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
71	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
72	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
73	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
74	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
75	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	9	Megaphone	64
76	PRETEND	Creative Babble, LLC	True Crime	320	Megaphone	84
77	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
78	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Matthew Cox	True Crime	1207	Spotify for Podcasters	22
79	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
80	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
81	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
82	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
83	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
84	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	226	WideOrbit	58
85	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
86	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
87	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
88	Are You Captain Purple	Hilliard House Productions	True Crime	9	Podbean	63
89	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
90	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	417	Megaphone	53
91	American Nightmares - Gardens of Evil: Inside The Zion Society Cult	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	84
92	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
93	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
94	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
95	Judged: A Mother's Love	BBC Sounds	True Crime	7	BBC	69
96	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
97	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
98	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
99	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
100	Cup Of Justice	LUNASHARK	True Crime	193	Megaphone	94

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