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 29 Mar 2026

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03/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 304

Frequency: every 12 days

Duration: 00:47:03

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Simplecast (22 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (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	861	Simplecast	53
3	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
4	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1126	WideOrbit	53
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
9	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	551	Simplecast	57
11	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1223	Omny Studio	38
12	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
13	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	41	Omny Studio	83
14	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
16	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
17	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	446	Audioboom	63
19	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
21	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
22	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
23	Fraudacious	Novel in association with BBC Studios	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	64
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
25	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
26	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
27	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
28	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
29	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
30	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
31	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	969	Simplecast	59
32	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	230	ART19	53
33	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
34	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
35	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
36	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
37	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
38	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	85	WideOrbit	68
39	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
40	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	851	Megaphone	69
41	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
42	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
43	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
44	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
45	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
46	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
47	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
48	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
49	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
50	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Audioboom	73
51	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	213	ART19	68
52	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
53	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
54	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
55	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
56	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
57	Someone’s Hunting Us	NJ.com	True Crime	9	Megaphone	63
58	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
59	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
60	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
61	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
62	City of Lights	Willy Nast	True Crime	7	Libsyn	73
63	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
64	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
65	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	58
66	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	375	Audioboom	37
67	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
68	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
69	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
70	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
71	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	165	Megaphone	73
72	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	29	Megaphone	73
73	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
74	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
75	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
76	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
77	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
78	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
79	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
80	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
81	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
82	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
83	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
84	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
85	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
86	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
87	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
88	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
89	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
90	Crime Salad	BLACKCAT \| Realm	True Crime	288	Megaphone	59
91	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
92	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1259	Megaphone	27
93	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
94	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
95	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	9	Megaphone	64
96	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
97	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
98	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
99	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	555	Spotify for Podcasters	32
100	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	128	WideOrbit	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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