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 Aug 2026

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08/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 285

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:46:40

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. ABC News (5 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. Audible (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (10 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	530	Simplecast	63
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	860	Simplecast	53
3	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	890	Simplecast	68
5	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1124	WideOrbit	53
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	550	Simplecast	57
8	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
9	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1222	Omny Studio	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 & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	445	Audioboom	63
14	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	53	WideOrbit	62
15	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	459	ART19	43
16	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
17	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1209	Simplecast	58
19	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
20	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
21	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	181	Simplecast	63
22	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
23	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
24	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
26	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	40	Omny Studio	83
27	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
28	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
29	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
30	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	56	Audioboom	73
31	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
32	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
33	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
34	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	357	Megaphone	58
35	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	654	Audioboom	42
36	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
37	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
38	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	20	Megaphone	58
39	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
40	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
41	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	42
42	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	556	Simplecast	49
43	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
44	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	201	WideOrbit	63
45	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
46	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
47	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	25	Omny Studio	69
48	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
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	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	12	ART19	73
52	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
53	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	410	Megaphone	73
54	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	229	ART19	53
55	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
56	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
57	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
58	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
59	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	968	Simplecast	59
60	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	16	ART19	79
61	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	440	Simplecast	68
62	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
63	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	52
64	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	640	Audioboom	48
65	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
66	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
67	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
68	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
69	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	192	WideOrbit	58
70	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	162	Simplecast	73
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	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
73	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	195	Megaphone	78
74	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	407	Audioboom	63
75	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
76	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	84	Omny Studio	63
77	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	73
78	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
79	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
80	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
81	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	83	WideOrbit	52
82	The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani	ESPN	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
83	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	360	Audioboom	68
84	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
85	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
86	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
87	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
88	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
89	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
90	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	441	Simplecast	73
91	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	56	Megaphone	68
92	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	538	Megaphone	27
93	Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione	ABC News	True Crime	38	Megaphone	68
94	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	225	Omny Studio	53
95	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	375	Audioboom	37
96	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
97	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
98	Pretty Lies And Alibis	GiGi McKelvey	True Crime	1000	Spreaker	64
99	Audible True Crime	Audible	True Crime	7	N/A	N/A
100	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	24	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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