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 Oct 2026

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10/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 263

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:43:54

Top 5 authors

1. ABC News (5 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. Audible Original (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. ART19 (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (14 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	877	Simplecast	53
3	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	900	Simplecast	68
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	185	Omny Studio	63
7	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1143	WideOrbit	53
8	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
9	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	550	ART19	58
10	Heart	Apple TV / Plan B / Blanchard House	True Crime	5	ART19	73
11	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
12	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	566	Simplecast	57
13	Over My Dead Body	Audible Original	True Crime	18	ART19	69
14	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
15	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1237	Omny Studio	38
16	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	456	Simplecast	68
17	My Mom’s Murder	AYR Media	True Crime	7	ART19	53
18	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	12	Captivate	58
19	Ada	Casefile Presents	True Crime	28	Acast	69
20	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	58	WideOrbit	62
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
22	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
23	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
24	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	570	Simplecast	63
25	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
26	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
27	Morrison Mysteries	NBC News	True Crime	23	Simplecast	69
28	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
29	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
30	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	160	Megaphone	48
31	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	7	WideOrbit	48
32	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
33	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
34	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
35	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
36	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
37	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
38	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
39	The Gilded Rage	AYR Media	True Crime	4	RedCircle	63
40	BABY	Particle Entertainment and Wavland	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
41	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	9	Megaphone	58
42	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
43	The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story	ABC News	True Crime	5	Megaphone	42
44	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
45	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	671	Audioboom	42
46	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
47	The Slippery	Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge	True Crime	54	Megaphone	53
48	Bad Blood: The Final Chapter	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	53
49	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
50	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	648	Audioboom	48
51	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	97	Unknown	63
52	Deceived: The Daybell Story	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	1	Unknown	58
53	Heist at the Louvre	ABC News	True Crime	5	Megaphone	53
54	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	58
55	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	294	Simplecast	63
56	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
57	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	44	Omny Studio	63
58	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
59	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
60	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	244	ART19	53
61	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
62	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
63	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
64	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
65	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	17	ART19	63
66	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
67	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
68	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
69	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
70	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
71	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
72	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
73	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
74	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
75	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
76	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	89	Acast	53
77	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
78	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
79	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
80	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
81	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
82	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
83	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	327	Triton Digital	58
84	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
85	Who Killed Angel Harris?	ID	True Crime	36	Acast	58
86	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	63
87	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
88	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	451	Simplecast	73
89	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
90	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
91	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	316	Audioboom	73
92	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
93	Lost Hills	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	51	Omny Studio	63
94	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	58
95	The Poisoned Wife	The Australian	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	89
96	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
97	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	411	Audioboom	63
98	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	62
99	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
100	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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