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 30 Sep 2026

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09/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 275

Frequency: every 19 days

Duration: 00:46:20

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. Audible (5 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. Crime House (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. ART19 (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (13 shows)

5. Audioboom (9 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	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	891	Simplecast	68
4	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	4	WideOrbit	48
5	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
6	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
7	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1127	WideOrbit	53
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1224	Omny Studio	38
9	My Mom’s Murder	Audible	True Crime	3	ART19	53
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	552	Simplecast	57
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	181	Omny Studio	63
12	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
13	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
14	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	31	Omny Studio	63
15	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	182	Simplecast	63
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
17	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	369	ART19	58
18	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	565	Simplecast	63
19	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	42	Omny Studio	83
20	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
21	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
22	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1210	Simplecast	58
23	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	358	Megaphone	58
24	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	542	ART19	58
25	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	57	Simplecast	73
26	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	423	Acast	43
27	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	54	WideOrbit	62
28	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
29	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	23	Megaphone	63
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	192	Megaphone	48
31	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
32	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
33	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	491	ART19	52
34	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	303	Audioboom	52
35	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	261	Megaphone	59
36	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	292	Simplecast	63
37	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	641	Audioboom	48
38	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
39	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
40	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	6	Captivate	42
41	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	68	Omny Studio	58
42	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
43	Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia	TNT / Cadence13	True Crime	11	Megaphone	63
44	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	656	Audioboom	42
45	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	557	Simplecast	49
46	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
47	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	193	WideOrbit	58
48	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
49	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
50	Killer Psyche	Audible \| Treefort Media	True Crime	166	ART19	83
51	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	71	ART19	63
52	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	93	Unknown	63
53	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	574	ART19	58
54	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	460	ART19	43
55	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	21	Megaphone	58
56	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	970	Simplecast	59
57	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
58	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
59	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	411	Megaphone	73
60	American Monster: The Trial Of Caleb Flynn	Hidden Killers Podcast	True Crime	86	Audioboom	53
61	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible	True Crime	214	ART19	68
62	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
63	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	85	Acast	53
64	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	13	ART19	63
65	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	63
66	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
67	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
68	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	462	Audioboom	42
69	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
70	Dr. Death	Audible	True Crime	17	ART19	69
71	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	231	ART19	53
72	The Burden	Orbit Media	True Crime	103	Omny Studio	53
73	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	179	Megaphone	68
74	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	296	Megaphone	63
75	What to Carry, What to Burn	Blair Braverman	True Crime	13	Acast	69
76	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
77	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	43
78	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	231	WideOrbit	58
79	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	67	Omny Studio	73
80	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	72	Spreaker	79
81	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	555	Spotify for Podcasters	32
82	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
83	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
84	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
85	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	361	Audioboom	68
86	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
87	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	50	Simplecast	69
88	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	441	Simplecast	68
89	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	189	Omny Studio	52
90	Crime in America with Joe Budden	Prime Crime Productions	True Crime	5	ART19	58
91	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	66	Omny Studio	68
92	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
93	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	388	Acast	38
94	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	110	Triton Digital	59
95	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
96	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	232	Omny Studio	53
97	Lights Out	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	312	Audioboom	73
98	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	331	Megaphone	69
99	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	83	Omny Studio	63
100	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	442	Simplecast	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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