Right now the top three are The Rest Is Science, Boring History for Sleep and Radiolab. Those three covers are the ones an Australian listener browsing Science sees first, so they are the fairest thing to hold yours up against.
Your cover in the Australian Science chart
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The Rest Is ScienceGoalhanger - 2
Boring History for SleepVelvet - 3
RadiolabWNYC Studios - 4
Dr Karl Podcasttriplej - 5Your cover goes hereTap to choose, or drop a file on this row
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Ologies with Alie WardAlie Ward - 7
Science VsSpotify Studios - 8
Hidden BrainHidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - 9
The Science ShowABC Australia - 10
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson - 11
The Great Simplification with Nate HagensNate Hagens - 12
Suspicious Minds: AI and the ApocalypseAgoric Media - 13
The Skeptics' Guide to the UniverseDr. Steven Novella - 14
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris - 15
Shirtloads of ScienceDr Karl Kruszelnicki - 16
What The Duck?!ABC Australia - 17
The Infinite Monkey CageBBC Radio 4 - 18
Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic DiscoveriesProfessor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley - 19
UnexplainableVox - 20
The Naked Scientists PodcastThe Naked Scientists - 21
DarkHorse PodcastBret Weinstein & Heather Heying - 22
Huge If True Podcastcleoabram931 - 23
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and IdeasSean Carroll - 24
Sasquatch ChroniclesSasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters - 25
Science WeeklyThe Guardian - 26
The World, the Universe and UsNew Scientist - 27
Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal AttacksWes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media - 28
This Podcast Will Kill YouExactly Right and iHeartPodcasts - 29
BBC Inside ScienceBBC Radio 4 - 30
Life WithoutBBC Radio 4 - 31
Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy PelzDr. Mindy Pelz - 32
SpaceTime with Stuart GaryStuart Gary - 33
That UFO PodcastThat UFO Podcast - 34
Change Your Mind with New ScientistNew Scientist - 35
You Are Not So SmartYou Are Not So Smart - 36
CrowdScienceBBC World Service - 37
Sidenote by AsapSCIENCEAsapSCIENCE - 38
The Psychology PodcastScott Barry Kaufman - 39
Universe Today PodcastFraser Cain - 40
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary UniverseiHeartPodcasts - 41
Short WaveNPR - 42
WonderGeoCo - 43
Nature SoundsABC - 44
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy PodcastDavid Puder, M.D. - 45
WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George KnappJeremy Corbell and George Knapp - 46
Stuff To Blow Your MindiHeartPodcasts - 47
The Common Descent PodcastCommon Descent - 48
Science FridayScience Friday and WNYC Studios - 49
The Science Show - Separate stories podcastABC Australia - 50
Blurry CreaturesBlurry Creatures - 51
Weekend BirderKirsty Costa - 52
SkeptoidBrian Dunning - 53
The Joy of WhySteven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine - 54
Bedtime AstronomySynthetic Universe - 55
Speaking of PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association - 56
DiscoveryBBC World Service - 57
Uncharted with Hannah FryBBC Radio 4 - 58
AquaholicsAustralian Water Partnership - 59
Something You Should KnowMike Carruthers | OmniCast Media - 60
Get BirdingPeanut & Crumb - 61
Breaking Down: CollapseKory & Kellan - 62
EmonthebrainEmily McDonald - 63
Overheard at National GeographicNational Geographic - 64
PsychTalksMelbourne School of Psychological Sciences - 65
Curious CasesBBC Radio 4 - 66
The Climate QuestionBBC World Service - 67
Big Sky CountryBush Heritage Australia - 68
The Supermassive PodcastThe Royal Astronomical Society - 69
Science FrictionABC Australia - 70
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian PodcastAccidental Gods - 71
Therapist Uncensored PodcastSue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD - 72
Scotland OutdoorsBBC Radio Scotland - 73
Babbage from The EconomistThe Economist - 74
The Seán ChorusHeadStuff Podcasts - 75
The 365 Days of Astronomy365DaysOfAstronomy.org - 76
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology PodcastZachary Elwood - 77
The End Of The World with Josh ClarkiHeartPodcasts - 78
NASA's Curious UniverseNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - 79
Astrum SpaceAstrum - 80
Unexpected ElementsBBC World Service - 81
Matter of Fact: A play on "matter" (physics) and "facts" (news).Larry White - 82
Why This Universe?Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman - 83
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingBig Bang Productions Inc. - 84
The Life ScientificBBC Radio 4 - 85
Let's Learn Everything!Maximum Fun - 86
The Quanta PodcastQuanta Magazine - 87
The PlodcastOur Media - 88
From First PrinciplesKrishna Choudhary and Lester Nare - 89
NaturebangBBC Radio 4 - 90
ReskillienceCatie Payne - 91
Head ShepherdMark Ferguson - 92
Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore InterviewsMysterious Radio - 93
New Books in Critical TheoryMarshall Poe - 94
From Our Neurons to YoursWu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler - 95
Houston We Have a PodcastNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - 96
How We're WiredThe Bertarelli Foundation - 97
Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy HealingMerraki Media LLC - 98
The Episodic Table of ElementsT. R. Appleton - 99
Freakonomics, M.D.Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher - 100
Paranormal MysteriesNic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast - 101
Quirks and QuarksCBC
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What is different about the Australian chart
Roughly 43 shows in each hundred also chart in the US, so this store sits between the borrowed charts and the independent ones. ABC Australia is the strongest local presence by some distance: 9 of the top 100 in News, 9 in Society & Culture and 9 in Kids & Family when counted on 10 September. Australian show names are also among the shortest here, averaging 23 characters, which is genuinely helpful at thumbnail size.
Counted, in this hundred
Off the same chart drawn above, which is in Apple’s order: number one is the cover doing the most work in Australia right now.
31 of these 100 shows have a name longer than 25 characters. The average is 23.7. The longest is "Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas", which is not a name that fits in a list row.
33 of them get by on two words or fewer. Those are the covers that can set their name large enough to read while scrolling.
BBC Radio 4 holds 7 of the 100 places. A publisher with that many shows in one chart is running a house style, so several of the covers you are placed against are variations of one another.
50 of these 100 also chart in the United States. The other 50 are local to this store, which is the part of the chart worth studying if you are publishing into it.