Right now the top three are Boring History for Sleep, The Rest Is Science and Hidden Brain. Those three covers are the ones a South African listener browsing Science sees first, so they are the fairest thing to hold yours up against.
Your cover in the South African Science chart
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Boring History for SleepVelvet - 2
The Rest Is ScienceGoalhanger - 3
Hidden BrainHidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - 4
The Naked Scientists PodcastThe Naked Scientists - 5Your cover goes hereTap to choose, or drop a file on this row
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RadiolabWNYC Studios - 7
Ologies with Alie WardAlie Ward - 8
UnexplainableVox - 9
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson - 10
Science WeeklyThe Guardian - 11
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris - 12
Science VsSpotify Studios - 13
Change Your Mind with New ScientistNew Scientist - 14
The Skeptics' Guide to the UniverseDr. Steven Novella - 15
Uncharted with Hannah FryBBC Radio 4 - 16
Blurry CreaturesBlurry Creatures - 17
Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy PelzDr. Mindy Pelz - 18
From Our Neurons to YoursWu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler - 19
Short WaveNPR - 20
Curious CasesBBC Radio 4 - 21
The Joy of WhySteven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine - 22
BBC Inside ScienceBBC Radio 4 - 23
DarkHorse PodcastBret Weinstein & Heather Heying - 24
EmonthebrainEmily McDonald - 25
Ask the Naked ScientistsDr Chris Smith - 26
Students of SurgeryMartin Brand - 27
This Podcast Will Kill YouExactly Right and iHeartPodcasts - 28
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary UniverseiHeartPodcasts - 29
Unexpected ElementsBBC World Service - 30
Babbage from The EconomistThe Economist - 31
Science FridayScience Friday and WNYC Studios - 32
Sidenote by AsapSCIENCEAsapSCIENCE - 33
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and IdeasSean Carroll - 34
The End Of The World with Josh ClarkiHeartPodcasts - 35
BrainStuffiHeartPodcasts - 36
The Acres U.S.A. PodcastAcres U.S.A.® - 37
DiscoveryBBC World Service - 38
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy PodcastDavid Puder, M.D. - 39
The Wild with Chris MorganKUOW News and Information - 40
The Infinite Monkey CageBBC Radio 4 - 41
Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal AttacksWes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media - 42
Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring InterviewsRobert Sapolsky - 43
Wild World with Scott SolomonScott Solomon - 44
Undoctrinate YourselfDr. Alexis Cowan - 45
Vienna Global ForumVienna Global Forum - 46
The Wild Crime Report PodcastWildlife Detective - 47
The Birding Life Podcast NetworkThe Birding Life Podcast Network - 48
Suspicious Minds: AI and the ApocalypseAgoric Media - 49
Stuff To Blow Your MindiHeartPodcasts - 50
Speaking of PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association - 51
Inner Cosmos with David EaglemaniHeartPodcasts - 52
Guardians of the RiverWild Bird Trust, NGOWP, House of Pod - 53
In Defense of Plants PodcastIn Defense of Plants - 54
CrowdScienceBBC World Service - 55
From First PrinciplesKrishna Choudhary and Lester Nare - 56
Ask the Naked ScientistsDr Chris Smith - 57
Real Ghost Stories OnlineReal Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio - 58
Wildest Kruger StoriesKarolina Norée - 59
The World, the Universe and UsNew Scientist - 60
Ancient AliensPodcastOne - 61
6 Ranch PodcastJames Nash - 62
You Are Not So SmartYou Are Not So Smart - 63
SpaceTime with Stuart GaryStuart Gary - 64
The Astrophysics PodcastPaul Duffell - 65
A Life More WildCanopy & Stars - 66
PlanetGeo: The Geology PodcastChris and Jesse - 67
The Quanta PodcastQuanta Magazine - 68
Choiceology with Katy MilkmanCharles Schwab - 69
BirdNote DailyBirdNote - 70
Relebogile Mabotja hosts The Naked ScientistRadio 702 - 71
Rare EarthBBC Radio 4 - 72
Soil Talks™ PodcastBrandon Kail - 73
Climate CuriousTEDxLondon - 74
FloobaSounds for ADHD + ASD to Support Focus Regulation + Sleep - 75
The Geography of EverythingRonni Ravid & Zenne Hellinga - 76
Rewilding the World with Ben GoldsmithBen Goldsmith - 77
Game TheoryGame Theory - 78
The International Security PodcastInternational Security - 79
SuperHumanizer PodcastDr. Hani Chaabo & Katie Bogen - 80
Opinionated History of MathematicsIntellectual Mathematics - 81
Talking Child Developmentccfdau - 82
The Science of SoundGRAS Acoustics - 83
Acoustic WorldMarco Maiolini - 84
Across AcousticsASA Publications' Office - 85
The Science of Everything PodcastJames Fodor - 86
The Climate QuestionBBC World Service - 87
Intelligent Design the FutureDiscovery Institute - 88
The Psychology PodcastScott Barry Kaufman - 89
The Michael Shermer ShowMichael Shermer - 90
CREOGs Over CoffeeCREOGs Over Coffee - 91
Outside/InNHPR - 92
Bigfoot SocietyJeremiah Byron - 93
This Week in CardiologyMedscape - 94
MedLink Neurology PodcastMedLink Neurology - 95
Regenerative Agriculture PodcastJohn Kempf - 96
The Science of HappinessPRX and Greater Good Science Center - 97
The Great Simplification with Nate HagensNate Hagens - 98
Science QuicklyScientific American - 99
Something You Should KnowMike Carruthers | OmniCast Media - 100
The Dairy Nutrition Blackbelt PodcastWisenetix - 101
Natural CausesCool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts
Science in other countries
Other genres in South Africa
What is different about the South African chart
About 39 shows per hundred also chart in the US. The store is unusually spread out: no publisher dominated any genre on 10 September the way the BBC does in the UK, with the biggest single holding being 8 of Sports. That makes it a chart where an individual cover has more room to be the distinctive one in view.
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 South Africa right now.
35 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.
29 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 5 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.
45 of these 100 also chart in the United States. The other 55 are local to this store, which is the part of the chart worth studying if you are publishing into it.