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 31 Aug 2026

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08/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 288

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:47:49

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (6 shows)

2. NBC News (5 shows)

3. Crime House (4 shows)

4. ABC News (4 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (7 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	878	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
4	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
5	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
6	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
7	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1145	WideOrbit	53
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	568	Simplecast	57
9	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
10	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
11	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
12	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
13	COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	18	Megaphone	83
14	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
15	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1220	Simplecast	58
16	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	465	ART19	43
17	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
18	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
19	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
20	Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder	Full Trial Audio	True Crime	40	Spreaker	58
21	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	458	Simplecast	68
22	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	59	WideOrbit	62
23	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
25	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
26	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
27	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
29	The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential	NBC10 Boston	True Crime	186	Simplecast	68
30	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
31	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
32	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
33	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
34	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
35	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
36	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
37	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
38	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
39	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
40	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	673	Audioboom	42
41	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
42	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
43	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	246	ART19	53
44	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	566	Simplecast	49
45	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
46	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	53
47	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
48	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
49	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
50	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	18	ART19	63
51	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
52	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
53	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
54	Hidden True Crime	Hidden True Crime \| Daylight Media	True Crime	525	Megaphone	64
55	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
56	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
57	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
58	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
59	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	448	Simplecast	68
60	The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy	Change the Choice Productions	True Crime	19	RSS.com	52
61	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	69
62	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
63	The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	62
64	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
65	Dan Taberski's Manifesto	Audible	True Crime	7	ART19	48
66	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
67	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
68	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
69	The Snare	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	53
70	This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)	This Feels Criminal \| Formerly Killer Queens	True Crime	457	Libsyn	52
71	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	85	Omny Studio	63
72	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
73	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
74	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	73
75	PRETEND	Creative Babble, LLC	True Crime	329	Megaphone	84
76	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
77	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
78	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
79	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
80	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
81	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	575	Spotify for Podcasters	32
82	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
83	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
84	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
85	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
86	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	243	Omny Studio	53
87	Long Buried	Times Union	True Crime	7	Megaphone	53
88	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
89	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
90	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	55	Simplecast	69
91	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	182	Simplecast	79
92	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
93	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	247	WideOrbit	58
94	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
95	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
96	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
97	The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani	ESPN	True Crime	7	Megaphone	48
98	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
99	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	454	Simplecast	73
100	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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