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 Aug 2026

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08/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 289

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:46:38

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (6 shows)

2. Audiochuck (6 shows)

3. ABC News (5 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (26 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (7 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	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1127	WideOrbit	53
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	552	Simplecast	57
8	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1224	Omny Studio	38
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
12	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
13	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
14	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
15	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
16	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
17	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
18	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
19	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	54	WideOrbit	62
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
21	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
22	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1210	Simplecast	58
23	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	42	Omny Studio	83
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
25	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
26	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
27	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
29	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
30	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
31	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
32	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
33	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
34	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
35	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	8	Omny Studio	42
36	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	21	Megaphone	58
37	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
38	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
39	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
40	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
41	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
42	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
43	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
44	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
45	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
46	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	13	ART19	63
47	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
48	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
49	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
50	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
51	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
52	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
53	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
54	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
55	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
56	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
57	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
58	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	231	ART19	53
59	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
60	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
61	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
62	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	196	Megaphone	78
63	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	57	Megaphone	68
64	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
65	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
66	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
67	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
68	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	84	WideOrbit	58
69	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
70	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
71	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
72	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
73	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	164	Simplecast	79
74	The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani	ESPN	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
75	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
76	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
77	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
78	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	232	Omny Studio	53
79	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
80	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
81	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
82	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	442	Simplecast	73
83	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	422	Megaphone	53
84	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	441	Simplecast	68
85	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
86	Audible True Crime	Audible	True Crime	7	N/A	N/A
87	Pretty Lies And Alibis	GiGi McKelvey	True Crime	1000	Spreaker	64
88	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
89	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	723	Megaphone	49
90	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
91	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
92	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
93	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	163	Audioboom	53
94	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
95	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
96	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
97	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
98	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	153	Simplecast	68
99	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
100	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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