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 28 Jan 2026

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01/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 309

Frequency: every 13 days

Duration: 00:47:19

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Audioboom (13 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Omny Studio (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	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1125	WideOrbit	53
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
8	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
9	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
10	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
11	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
12	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
14	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
15	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
16	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
17	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
18	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
20	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
21	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
22	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
23	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
24	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
25	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
26	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
27	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
28	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
29	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
30	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
31	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
32	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
33	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
34	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
35	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
36	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
37	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
38	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
39	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
40	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
41	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
42	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
43	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
44	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
45	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
46	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69
47	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
48	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
49	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
50	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
51	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
52	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
53	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
54	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
55	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	178	Megaphone	68
56	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
57	Sick to Death	The Australian	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
58	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
59	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
60	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
61	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
62	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	165	ART19	83
63	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	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	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
66	One of Their Own	KPBS	True Crime	7	StreamGuys	59
67	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	421	Megaphone	53
68	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
69	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	311	Audioboom	73
70	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
71	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
72	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
73	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
74	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
75	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
76	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
77	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
78	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
79	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
80	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
81	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
82	The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories	Grip Tape	True Crime	361	Audioboom	58
83	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
84	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	301	Megaphone	73
85	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
86	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
87	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
88	Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson	Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network	True Crime	266	Megaphone	69
89	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
90	Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	59	Omny Studio	53
91	Cup Of Justice	LUNASHARK	True Crime	193	Megaphone	94
92	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
93	Under Cover of Knight	Apple TV+ / Spoke Media	True Crime	12	ART19	83
94	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
95	American Greed Podcast	CNBC	True Crime	150	Simplecast	32
96	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
97	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
98	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
99	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
100	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52

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