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 Feb 2026

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02/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 293

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:45:42

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Crime House (5 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (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	862	Simplecast	53
3	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	892	Simplecast	68
5	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	182	Omny Studio	63
6	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	554	Simplecast	57
7	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1226	Omny Studio	38
8	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
9	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	9	Megaphone	64
10	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
12	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
13	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1230	Simplecast	58
14	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
15	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
17	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	544	ART19	58
18	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
19	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	370	ART19	58
20	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
21	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
22	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
23	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	304	Audioboom	52
25	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
26	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
27	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	293	Simplecast	63
28	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	492	ART19	52
29	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	193	Megaphone	48
30	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
31	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	51	Simplecast	69
32	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
33	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	262	Megaphone	59
34	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
35	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
36	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
37	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
38	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
39	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	233	ART19	53
40	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	461	Simplecast	68
41	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	424	Acast	43
42	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	158	Megaphone	48
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	558	Simplecast	49
44	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	380	Audioboom	37
45	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
46	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
47	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
48	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
49	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	658	Audioboom	42
50	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
51	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	853	Megaphone	69
52	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
53	Hush	Oregon Public Broadcasting	True Crime	21	Unknown	69
54	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
55	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
56	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	642	Audioboom	48
57	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	195	WideOrbit	58
58	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
59	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
60	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
61	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
62	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
63	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	389	Acast	38
64	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
65	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	442	Simplecast	68
66	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
67	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
68	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
69	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
70	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
71	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
72	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
73	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	332	Megaphone	69
74	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
75	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
76	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	408	Audioboom	63
77	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	443	Simplecast	73
78	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
79	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
80	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
81	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	233	WideOrbit	58
82	Everything They Missed	Stephanie Tinsley/Audacy/TFTV	True Crime	13	Megaphone	59
83	The Girl in the Blue Mustang	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	58
84	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
85	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
86	Creeps and Crimes Details temporarily unavailable	Taylar Fetzner, Morgan Harris	True Crime	406	ART19	63
87	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
88	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
89	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
90	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
91	13th Juror Podcast	Brandi Churchwell	True Crime	154	Audioboom	38
92	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
93	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
94	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	166	Simplecast	79
95	Hell and Gone	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	170	Omny Studio	84
96	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
97	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27
98	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
99	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	131	WideOrbit	68
100	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	42	Omny Studio	83

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