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 oct. 2025

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10/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 280

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:44:28

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. NBC News (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (18 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	855	Simplecast	53
2	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
4	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
5	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1117	WideOrbit	53
6	Wild Boys	Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	59
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1218	Omny Studio	38
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
9	The Preventionist	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	N/A	N/A
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	544	Simplecast	57
11	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1205	Simplecast	58
12	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
13	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
14	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
15	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	55	Audioboom	73
16	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
17	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
18	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
19	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	178	Simplecast	63
20	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
21	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
22	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	442	Audioboom	63
23	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
24	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
26	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
27	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
28	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
29	Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	212	Omny Studio	63
30	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	650	Audioboom	42
31	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
32	The Surgeon Of St Helena	Always True Crime	True Crime	20	Acast	69
33	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
35	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	847	Megaphone	69
36	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	199	WideOrbit	63
37	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
38	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	552	Simplecast	49
39	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	224	ART19	53
40	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
41	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
42	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
43	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	638	Audioboom	48
44	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	966	Simplecast	59
45	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
46	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	55	Megaphone	68
47	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
48	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
49	Crime Salad Details temporarily unavailable	Weird Salad Media \| QCODE	True Crime	446	Megaphone	59
50	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	54	WideOrbit	62
51	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
52	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
53	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
54	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
55	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
56	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
57	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	125	WideOrbit	68
58	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
59	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	437	Simplecast	68
60	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
61	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
62	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	52
63	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
64	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
65	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	439	Simplecast	73
66	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
67	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
68	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	452	Omny Studio	63
69	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
70	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
71	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
72	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
73	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
74	BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation	Mottafied Sound, LLC	True Crime	26	ART19	63
75	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
76	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	73
77	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
78	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
79	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
80	Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan Details temporarily unavailable	Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan	True Crime	266	N/A	N/A
81	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
82	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
83	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
84	Crying Wolf	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	4	Omny Studio	69
85	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
86	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	52	WideOrbit	62
87	The Chinatown Sting	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	69
88	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
89	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	194	Megaphone	78
90	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
91	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
92	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	81	WideOrbit	52
93	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
94	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
95	The Rachel Cancer Scam	The Messenger	True Crime	48	ART19	83
96	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
97	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
98	The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs	PodcastOne	True Crime	186	Nox Solutions	43
99	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
100	America's Crime Lab	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	True Crime	30	Omny Studio	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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