Right now the top three are Something You Should Know, Hidden Brain and Science of Perception Box. Those three covers are the ones an American listener browsing Science sees first, so they are the fairest thing to hold yours up against.
Your cover in the American Science chart
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Something You Should KnowMike Carruthers | OmniCast Media - 2
Hidden BrainHidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - 3
Science of Perception BoxUnlikely Collaborators | Pod People - 4
RadiolabWNYC Studios - 5Your cover goes hereTap to choose, or drop a file on this row
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Ologies with Alie WardAlie Ward - 7
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson - 8
Big Ideas LabMission.org - 9
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and RegenerationCorinna Bellizzi - 10
Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best LifeJulie Lokun and Mika Altidor - 11
Boring History for SleepVelvet - 12
Short WaveNPR - 13
Science FridayScience Friday and WNYC Studios - 14
Health Optimization Medicine PodcastHealth Optimization Medicine and Practice - 15
UnexplainableVox - 16
Sasquatch ChroniclesSasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters - 17
Blurry CreaturesBlurry Creatures - 18
Science VsSpotify Studios - 19
DarkHorse PodcastBret Weinstein & Heather Heying - 20
Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal AttacksWes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith | Daylight Media - 21
The Rest Is ScienceGoalhanger - 22
Suspicious Minds: AI and the ApocalypseAgoric Media - 23
This Podcast Will Kill YouExactly Right and iHeartPodcasts - 24
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris - 25
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and IdeasSean Carroll - 26
Choiceology with Katy MilkmanCharles Schwab - 27
The Great Simplification with Nate HagensNate Hagens - 28
The Skeptics' Guide to the UniverseDr. Steven Novella - 29
Sidenote by AsapSCIENCEAsapSCIENCE - 30
WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George KnappJeremy Corbell and George Knapp - 31
Huge If True Podcastcleoabram931 - 32
When autistic kids grow upThe Transmitter - 33
Expanded PerspectivesExpanded Perspectives - 34
Okay, But... BirdsDr. Scott Taylor - 35
Natural CausesCool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts - 36
Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy PelzDr. Mindy Pelz - 37
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary UniverseiHeartPodcasts - 38
The Best of Coast to Coast AMiHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM - 39
When We Find ThemCentral Florida Public Media - 40
BirdNote DailyBirdNote - 41
Stuff To Blow Your MindiHeartPodcasts - 42
Speaking of PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association - 43
Outside/InNHPR - 44
Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6A podcast in partnership with The Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative - 45
The Human ExperimentEthan Reed - 46
Bigfoot SocietyJeremiah Byron - 47
The Common Descent PodcastCommon Descent - 48
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy PodcastDavid Puder, M.D. - 49
Science QuicklyScientific American - 50
BrainStuffiHeartPodcasts - 51
The Joy of WhySteven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine - 52
Are We Doomed?NPR Network - 53
That UFO PodcastThat UFO Podcast - 54
The Wild with Chris MorganKUOW News and Information - 55
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This WeekPopular Science - 56
This Week in VirologyVincent Racaniello - 57
The Nature Of with Willow DefebaughAtmos - 58
Universe Today PodcastFraser Cain - 59
You Are Not So SmartYou Are Not So Smart - 60
The Science of HappinessPRX and Greater Good Science Center - 61
In Defense of Plants PodcastIn Defense of Plants - 62
Paranormal MysteriesNic Ryan | Paranormal Mysteries Podcast - 63
Albertans In Space PodcastAlbertans In Space Podcast - 64
From First PrinciplesKrishna Choudhary and Lester Nare - 65
The VPZD ShowDrs. Vinay Prasad & Zubin Damania - 66
Constant WonderBYUradio - 67
Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore InterviewsMysterious Radio - 68
EmonthebrainEmily McDonald - 69
The Quanta PodcastQuanta Magazine - 70
ScienceSphereStephania Mills - 71
Freakonomics, M.D.Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher - 72
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology PodcastZachary Elwood - 73
Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and BoboBigfoot and Beyond LLC - 74
Ancient AliensPodcastOne - 75
Particles of ThoughtGBH - 76
The Infinite Monkey CageBBC Radio 4 - 77
Unearthing OptimismArbor Day Foundation - 78
Somewhere in the SkiesSpectreVision Radio - 79
Science Magazine PodcastScience Magazine - 80
Bedtime AstronomySynthetic Universe - 81
Bigfoot Terror in the Woods Sightings and EncountersW.J. Sheehan - 82
Beastly HistoryWild Beast - 83
Therapist Uncensored PodcastSue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD - 84
Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy HealingMerraki Media LLC - 85
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingBig Bang Productions Inc. - 86
The Science of BirdsIvan Phillipsen - 87
Bigfoot Eyewitness RadioVic Cundiff - 88
NOVA RemixGBH - 89
Houston We Have a PodcastNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - 90
Just the Zoo of UsEllen & Christian Weatherford - 91
The American Birding PodcastAmerican Birding Association - 92
DrilledPushkin Industries - 93
NASA's Curious UniverseNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - 94
SASQUATCH THEORYSASQUATCH THEORY - 95
Astrum SpaceAstrum - 96
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and ScienceThe Planetary Society - 97
TheThinkingAtheistThe Thinking Atheist - 98
Inner Cosmos with David EaglemaniHeartPodcasts - 99
Babbage from The EconomistThe Economist - 100
Theories of Everything with Curt JaimungalTheories of Everything - 101
UAP Unidentified Alien PodcastGamut Podcast Network
Science in other countries
Other genres in the United States
What is different about the American chart
The US store is the one every other chart borrows from, and the most contested. It is also where the house styles are set: when a genre has a convention, this is usually the chart it was established in. The top publisher in a given genre here holds seven to nine of the hundred slots, so an independent cover is not competing with one network, it is competing with several at once.
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 States right now.
38 of these 100 shows have a name longer than 25 characters. The average is 25.4. 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.
30 of them get by on two words or fewer. Those are the covers that can set their name large enough to read while scrolling.
iHeartPodcasts holds 4 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 Kingdom. The other 56 are local to this store, which is the part of the chart worth studying if you are publishing into it.