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 Sep 2026

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09/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 291

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:47:06

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (21 shows)

3. Audioboom (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. ART19 (12 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	860	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	890	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1124	WideOrbit	53
5	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
6	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	550	Simplecast	57
7	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1222	Omny Studio	38
9	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
10	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	445	Audioboom	63
12	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
13	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	3	WideOrbit	48
14	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
16	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
18	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	40	Omny Studio	83
19	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
21	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
22	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
23	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
24	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
25	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
26	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
27	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
28	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
29	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
30	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
31	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
32	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
33	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
34	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
35	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
36	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	58
37	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
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	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
41	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
42	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
43	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
44	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
45	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
46	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	92	Unknown	63
47	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
48	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
49	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
50	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
51	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
52	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
53	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	12	ART19	73
54	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
55	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
56	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
57	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	192	WideOrbit	58
58	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	410	Megaphone	73
59	The Burden	Orbit Media	True Crime	103	Omny Studio	53
60	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
61	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
62	American Monster: The Trial Of Caleb Flynn	Hidden Killers Podcast	True Crime	66	Audioboom	53
63	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
64	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
65	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	70	ART19	63
66	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
67	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	16	ART19	79
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	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
70	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
71	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
72	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
73	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
74	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
75	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	165	ART19	83
76	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
77	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
78	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
79	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
80	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
81	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
82	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
83	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
84	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
85	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
86	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
87	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
88	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
89	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
90	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
91	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
92	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
93	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
94	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	375	Audioboom	37
95	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
96	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1259	Megaphone	27
97	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	68
98	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	461	Audioboom	42
99	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
100	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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