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 May 2026

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05/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 299

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:47:21

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Audioboom (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. ART19 (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	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
8	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
9	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
11	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
12	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
13	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
14	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
16	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
18	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
19	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
21	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
22	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
23	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
24	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
25	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
26	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
27	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
29	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
30	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
31	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
32	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
33	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
34	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
35	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
36	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
37	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
38	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
39	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
40	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
41	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
42	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
43	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
44	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
45	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
46	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
47	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
48	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
49	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
50	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
51	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
52	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
53	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
54	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
55	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
56	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
57	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
58	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
59	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
60	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
61	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
62	Calls From a Killer	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	59
63	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
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	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
66	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	13	Acast	69
67	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
68	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
69	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
70	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
71	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
72	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
73	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
74	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	361	Audioboom	58
75	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	92	Unknown	63
76	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
77	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
78	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
79	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	421	Megaphone	53
80	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	21	Megaphone	58
81	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
82	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
83	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
84	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
85	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
86	The Lindbergh Conspiracies	The Free Press	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
87	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
88	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
89	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	230	Omny Studio	53
90	Crimes of the Centuries Details temporarily unavailable	Amber Hunt	True Crime	306	Audioboom	78
91	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
92	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	555	Spotify for Podcasters	32
93	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
94	Crime Salad	BLACKCAT \| Realm	True Crime	288	Megaphone	59
95	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	128	WideOrbit	68
96	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
97	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
98	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
99	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
100	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58

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