Right now the top three are I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?, Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth and Great Company with Jamie Laing. Those three covers are the ones a British listener browsing Society & Culture sees first, so they are the fairest thing to hold yours up against.
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I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?BBC Sounds - 2
Rosebud with Gyles BrandrethGyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media - 3
Great Company with Jamie LaingJampot Productions - 4
We Need To Talk with Paul C. BrunsonWNTT - 5Your cover goes hereTap to choose, or drop a file on this row
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The Louis Theroux PodcastSpotify Studios - 7
Black Box: The ChatbotsThe Guardian - 8
Desert Island DiscsBBC Radio 4 - 9
Olivia's House with Olivia AttwoodPlatform Media - 10
The Affair…with Anna WilliamsonThe Affair…with Anna Williamson - 11
How To Fail With Elizabeth DayElizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment - 12
Modern WisdomChris Williamson - 13
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe BallPersephonica - 14
ShamelessShameless Media - 15
This American LifeThis American Life - 16
Careless | Tortoise InvestigatesThe Observer - 17
Miss Me?Persephonica - 18
Anything Goes with James EnglishAnything Goes with James English - 19
More or LessBBC Radio 4 - 20
The Dozen with Liam TuffsThe Dozen Media - 21
Heretics | Andrew GoldAndrew Gold - 22
Stuff You Should KnowiHeartPodcasts - 23
UncannyBBC Radio 4 - 24
The Permanent Questions With David BrooksThe Atlantic - 25
Where Should We Begin? with Esther PerelEsther Perel Global Media - 26
Full Disclosure with James O'BrienGlobal - 27
SwingersBBC Radio Wales - 28
At Home with The AndresSony Music Entertainment - 29
Vogue & AmberGlobal - 30
The Ezra Klein ShowNew York Times Opinion - 31
The Shawn Ryan ShowShawn Ryan - 32
The Girls BathroomSophia & Cinzia - 33
Woman's HourBBC Radio 4 - 34
Strangers on a BenchTom Rosenthal - 35
World of SecretsBBC - 36
The Audio Long ReadThe Guardian - 37
Get A Grip with Angela Scanlon and Vicky PattisonAudio Always - 38
Reaching OutFuturo Media - 39
The Documentary PodcastBBC World Service - 40
RadicalBBC Radio 4 - 41
Why Are You More Successful Than Me? with Richard BaconRichard Bacon - 42
A Very British CultBBC Radio 4 - 43
The PoshcastThe Telegraph - 44
Behind the BastardsCool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts - 45
The Why Files: Operation PodcastThe Why Files: Operation Podcast - 46
What Now? with Trevor NoahTrevor Noah - 47
The Slow NewscastThe Observer - 48
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the UnexplainedHaunted UK - 49
The Winston Marshall ShowWinston Marshall - 50
AdriftApple TV / Blanchard House - 51
Pottering with Tom AllenTom Allen - 52
The Oprah PodcastHarpo - 53
The Mishal Husain ShowBloomberg - 54
Abroad in JapanStak - 55
The Good Immigrant: The Official PodcastPlosive - 56
TED Talks DailyTED - 57
Natalie Cassidy's 'Life with Nat'Audio Always - 58
Lives Less OrdinaryBBC World Service - 59
ScamfluencersAudible - 60
The InterviewThe New York Times - 61
Happy Hour with Ina GartenVox Media - 62
Within ReasonAlex J O'Connor - 63
Things Fell ApartBBC Radio 4 - 64
Philosophize This!Stephen West - 65
Holly Willoughby Together with VoyHungry Bear Media - 66
WednesdaysJamPot Productions - 67
Freakonomics RadioFreakonomics Radio + Stitcher - 68
Lucky BoyTortoise Media - 69
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie SantosPushkin Industries - 70
If Books Could KillMichael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri - 71
Origin StoryPodmasters - 72
The Travel Expert with Simon CalderThe Telegraph - 73
Intelligence SquaredIntelligence Squared - 74
Planet NormalThe Telegraph - 75
The LRB PodcastThe London Review of Books - 76
Revisionist HistoryPushkin Industries - 77
OtherworldOtherworld - 78
Nip TuckBauer Media - 79
The Travel DiariesHolly Rubenstein - 80
The Seeds Will GrowFinn Harries - 81
The Secret World of Roald DahliHeartPodcasts - 82
HeavyweightPushkin Industries - 83
Khloé in Wonder LandKhloé Kardashian - 84
Against The OddsAudible - 85
Danny Jones PodcastDanny Jones | Daylight Media - 86
This Is Actually HappeningAudible - 87
The Diamond King | Telegraph InvestigatesThe Telegraph - 88
Mamamia Out LoudMamamia Podcasts - 89
LOWJack Rhysider - 90
Diabolical LiesKatie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke - 91
We call her EmmaThe Observer - 92
Two Girls One GhostSony Music Entertainment - 93
You Alright, Hun? The Official TOWIE PodcastAmy Taylor - 94
Please Don'tBBC Sounds - 95
The Telepathy TapesKy Dickens - 96
Walking The Dog with Emily DeanGoalhanger - 97
The Delingpod: The James Delingpole PodcastJames Delingpole - 98
Talk Easy with Sam FragosoHigher Ground - 99
Girls Next LevelHolly Madison & Bridget Marquardt - 100
Radio RentalTenderfoot TV & Audacy - 101
(OVER)SHAREiHeart Australia, Hannah Ferrier & Phoebe Burgess
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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.
31 of these 100 shows have a name longer than 25 characters. The average is 22.1. The longest is "Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained", 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 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.
37 of these 100 also chart in the United States. The other 63 are local to this store, which is the part of the chart worth studying if you are publishing into it.