Right now the top three are The Rest Is Science, Boring History for Sleep and The Infinite Monkey Cage. Those three covers are the ones a British listener browsing Science sees first, so they are the fairest thing to hold yours up against.
Your cover in the British Science chart
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The Rest Is ScienceGoalhanger - 2
Boring History for SleepVelvet - 3
The Infinite Monkey CageBBC Radio 4 - 4
Science WeeklyThe Guardian - 5Your cover goes hereTap to choose, or drop a file on this row
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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson - 7
BBC Inside ScienceBBC Radio 4 - 8
Suspicious Minds: AI and the ApocalypseAgoric Media - 9
Ologies with Alie WardAlie Ward - 10
The World, the Universe and UsNew Scientist - 11
RadiolabWNYC Studios - 12
Hidden BrainHidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - 13
Life WithoutBBC Radio 4 - 14
Get BirdingPeanut & Crumb - 15
The Seán ChorusHeadStuff Podcasts - 16
Curious CasesBBC Radio 4 - 17
The Naked Scientists PodcastThe Naked Scientists - 18
Uncharted with Hannah FryBBC Radio 4 - 19
CrowdScienceBBC World Service - 20
That UFO PodcastThat UFO Podcast - 21
UnexplainableVox - 22
Farming TodayBBC Radio 4 - 23
The Great Simplification with Nate HagensNate Hagens - 24
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris - 25
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and IdeasSean Carroll - 26
The Life ScientificBBC Radio 4 - 27
The PlodcastOur Media - 28
Sasquatch ChroniclesSasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters - 29
Change Your Mind with New ScientistNew Scientist - 30
Sidenote by AsapSCIENCEAsapSCIENCE - 31
Science VsSpotify Studios - 32
Scotland OutdoorsBBC Radio Scotland - 33
The Skeptics' Guide to the UniverseDr. Steven Novella - 34
Chris Skinner's Countryside PodcastsHigh Ash Farm - 35
Rewilding the World with Ben GoldsmithBen Goldsmith - 36
Babbage from The EconomistThe Economist - 37
Google DeepMind: The PodcastHannah Fry - 38
WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George KnappJeremy Corbell and George Knapp - 39
Wild Tales | Nature PodcastNational Trust - 40
Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy PelzDr. Mindy Pelz - 41
DarkHorse PodcastBret Weinstein & Heather Heying - 42
The Supermassive PodcastThe Royal Astronomical Society - 43
Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal AttacksWes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media - 44
Les idées largesARTE Radio - 45
This Podcast Will Kill YouExactly Right and iHeartPodcasts - 46
Open CountryBBC Radio 4 - 47
The Joy of WhySteven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine - 48
The Climate QuestionBBC World Service - 49
Unexpected ElementsBBC World Service - 50
Instant GeniusOur Media - 51
NaturebangBBC Radio 4 - 52
The Common Descent PodcastCommon Descent - 53
A Life More WildCanopy & Stars - 54
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy PodcastDavid Puder, M.D. - 55
Outrage + OptimismPersephonica and Global Optimism - 56
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary UniverseiHeartPodcasts - 57
The We SocietyAcSS - 58
Overheard at National GeographicNational Geographic - 59
Best MedicineBBC Radio 4 - 60
Big Cat ConversationsRick Minter - 61
Meet the FarmersBen Eagle, RuralPod Media - 62
A Question of ScienceThe Francis Crick Institute - 63
Tweet of the DayBBC Radio 4 - 64
Astrum SpaceAstrum - 65
Somewhere in the SkiesSpectreVision Radio - 66
Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic DiscoveriesProfessor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley - 67
Origin StoriesThe Leakey Foundation - 68
Choiceology with Katy MilkmanCharles Schwab - 69
DiscoveryBBC World Service - 70
Short WaveNPR - 71
Speaking of PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association - 72
Bedtime AstronomySynthetic Universe - 73
The Nature Of with Willow DefebaughAtmos - 74
The Psychology PodcastScott Barry Kaufman - 75
Theories of Everything with Curt JaimungalTheories of Everything - 76
Terrible LizardsIszi Lawrence and David Hone - 77
Ask the Naked ScientistsDr Chris Smith - 78
The Knepp Wilding PodcastKnepp.co.uk - 79
PsychCrunchThe British Psychological Society Research Digest - 80
Universe Today PodcastFraser Cain - 81
Paranormal MysteriesNic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast - 82
Win-Win with Liv BoereeLiv Boeree - 83
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian PodcastAccidental Gods - 84
Astronomy CastFraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay - 85
NASA's Curious UniverseNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - 86
Therapist Uncensored PodcastSue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD - 87
EmonthebrainEmily McDonald - 88
Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and BoboBigfoot and Beyond LLC - 89
The BirdGuides PodcastBirdGuides - 90
Beyond The Bird TableBritish Trust for Ornithology (BTO) - 91
Crash Course Pods: The UniverseCrash Course Pods, Complexly - 92
Dr Karl Podcasttriplej - 93
The Systemic WaySezer and Julie - 94
Houston We Have a PodcastNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - 95
Stanford Psychology PodcastStanford Psychology - 96
Let's Learn Everything!Maximum Fun - 97
Why This Universe?Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman - 98
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and ScienceThe Planetary Society - 99
Ancient AliensPodcastOne - 100
Social Work Sorted with Vicki ShevlinVicki Shevlin - 101
Rare EarthBBC Radio 4
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What is different about the British chart
Broadcasters hold more of this chart than any other in this set. Counted on 10 September, BBC Radio 4 held 11 of the 100 Science slots and 7 of Society & Culture, Sky News held 7 of News, and The Athletic and BBC Radio 5 Live held 8 each in Sports. Those covers follow a brand system, which means they are consistent, restrained, and almost always wordmark-led. An independent cover with a face on it is doing something visibly different from its neighbours here.
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 the United Kingdom right now.
33 of these 100 shows have a name longer than 25 characters. The average is 23.4. 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.
31 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 12 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.
44 of these 100 also chart in the United States. The other 56 are local to this store, which is the part of the chart worth studying if you are publishing into it.