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 27 May 2026

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05/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 304

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:47:28

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 (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (19 shows)

3. Audioboom (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. ART19 (11 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	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
7	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
8	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
9	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	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	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
13	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
14	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
15	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
16	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
18	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
19	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
20	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
21	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
22	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
23	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
24	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
26	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
27	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
28	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
29	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
30	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
31	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
32	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
34	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
35	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
36	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
37	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
38	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	21	Megaphone	58
39	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
40	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
41	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
42	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
43	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
44	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
45	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
46	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
47	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
48	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
49	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	23	Omny Studio	63
50	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
51	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
52	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
53	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
54	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	13	Acast	69
55	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
56	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
57	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
58	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
59	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
60	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
61	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
62	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
63	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
64	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
65	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
66	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
67	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
68	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
69	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
70	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
71	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
72	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
73	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
74	Calls From a Killer	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	59
75	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	92	Unknown	63
76	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
77	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	230	Omny Studio	53
78	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
79	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
80	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
81	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
82	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	421	Megaphone	53
83	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	555	Spotify for Podcasters	32
84	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
85	The Lindbergh Conspiracies	The Free Press	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
86	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
87	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
88	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
89	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
90	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
91	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
92	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
93	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	312	Audioboom	73
94	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
95	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
96	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	361	Audioboom	58
97	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	128	WideOrbit	68
98	Crimes of the Centuries Details temporarily unavailable	Amber Hunt	True Crime	306	Audioboom	78
99	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
100	Kingdom of Fraud	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	83

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