Right now the top three are Pardon My Take, The Bill Simmons Podcast and The Dan Le Batard Show. Those three covers are the ones an American listener browsing Sports sees first, so they are the fairest thing to hold yours up against.
Your cover in the American Sports chart
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Pardon My TakeBarstool Sports - 2
The Bill Simmons PodcastThe Ringer - 3
The Dan Le Batard ShowDan Le Batard - 4
DOUBLE COVERAGE PODCASTMystic Zach - 5Your cover goes hereTap to choose, or drop a file on this row
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Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Athletic - 7
Fantasy Football TodayCBS Sports - 8
Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football PodcastFantasy Football - 9
On The Line with Jim PyneJim - 10
The MeatEater PodcastMeatEater - 11
No Laying Up - Golf PodcastNoLayingUp.com - 12
The Ringer Fantasy Football ShowThe Ringer - 13
NightcapShay Shay Media & Playmaker - 14
Josh Pate's College Football ShowiHeartPodcasts - 15
New Heights with Jason & Travis KelceWondery - 16
Fantasy Focus FootballESPN, Field Yates, Stephania Bell, Mike Clay, Daniel Dopp - 17
The Dan Patrick ShowiHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network - 18
Brandon Walker College Football ShowBarstool Sports - 19
The Herd with Colin CowherdiHeartPodcasts and The Volume - 20
KSRiHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM) - 21
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFLThe Athletic - 22
FantasyPros - Fantasy Football PodcastiHeartPodcasts - 23
Club Shay ShayShay Shay Media & Playmaker - 24
Cover 3 College FootballCBS Sports - 25
The Tony Kornheiser ShowThis Show Stinks Productions, LLC - 26
Why We Love This ClubUnderdog Podcasts - 27
Yesterday in SportsUnderdog Podcasts - 28
The Beautiful Game: UnfilteredUnderdog Podcasts - 29
32 Thoughts: The PodcastSportsnet - 30
The Zach Lowe ShowThe Ringer - 31
The Pat McAfee ShowPat McAfee, ESPN - 32
The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football PodcastFOX Sports - 33
SVPodESPN, Omaha Productions, Scott Van Pelt - 34
Dinks On Tap: The Happy Hour Pickleball PodcastCasie & Lauren - 35
The Ryen Russillo ShowBarstool Sports - 36
All The SmokeThe Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts - 37
Purple Daily | a Minnesota Vikings podcastSKOR North - 38
The Right Time with Bomani JonesPlaymaker and iHeartPodcasts - 39
Locked On Bills - Daily Podcast On The Buffalo BillsLocked On Podcast Network, Joe Marino - 40
The Dale Jr. DownloadDirty Mo Media, SiriusXM - 41
Heed the Call NFL Podcast with Dan Hanzus & Marc SesslerDan Hanzus & Marc Sessler - 42
Sports Gambling PodcastSports Gambling Podcast Network, Sean Green, Ryan Kramer - 43
Fore PlayBarstool Sports - 44
First TakeESPN, Stephen A. Smith, Shae Cornette - 45
The Shotgun StartFried Egg Golf - 46
Club 520 PodcastiHeartPodcasts and The Volume - 47
The Steve Matthes Show on RacerXSteve Matthes - 48
NFL Daily with Gregg RosenthalNFL - 49
3 and Out with John MiddlekauffiHeartPodcasts and The Volume - 50
Pivot PodcastIt's Never Too Late To Pivot - 51
Spittin ChicletsBarstool Sports - 52
Jim Cornette’s Drive-ThruArcadian Vanguard - 53
The Domonique Foxworth ShowESPN, Andscape, Domonique Foxworth - 54
Served with Andy RoddickServed Media Network - 55
The Colin Cowherd PodcastiHeartPodcasts and The Volume - 56
The Athletic FC PodcastThe Athletic - 57
The Power TripChris Hawkey, Cory Cove, Paul Lambert (KFXN) - 58
SoCon Fast BreakiHeartPodcasts - 59
The TeardownDirty Mo Media, SiriusXM, Jeff Gluck - 60
THEMOVELance Armstrong - 61
Talkin' Yanks (Yankees Podcast)Jomboy Media - 62
Andy & Ari On3On3, Andy Staples, Ari Wasserman - 63
Yahoo Fantasy Forecast with Matt HarmonYahoo Sports - 64
PTIESPN, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon - 65
Section 10Section 10 - 66
The Mike Francesa PodcastBetRivers Network - 67
The Sports JunkiesAudacy - 68
Football WeeklyThe Guardian - 69
Las Vegas Raiders Insider: A Raiders podcast networkPro Football Insiders, Bleav Network - 70
Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh & HaydenYahoo Sports - 71
The Kevin Sheehan ShowKevin Sheehan, Blue Wire - 72
30 for 30 PodcastsESPN - 73
The McShay ShowThe Ringer - 74
3 Putt Bogey with Chuck and AdamiHeartPodcasts - 75
Mind the GameUNINTERRUPTED | Wondery - 76
Pack-A-Day: Your Daily Packers PodcastBlue Wire, Andy Herman - 77
Locked On Packers - Daily Podcast On The Green Bay PackersPeter Bukowski, Locked On Podcast Network - 78
The Oklahoma Breakdown with Ikard and LehmanGabe Ikard and Teddy Lehman - 79
ESPN FCESPN - 80
Brian Windhorst & The Hoop CollectiveESPN, Omaha Productions, Brian Windhorst - 81
Locked On Raiders - Daily Podcast On The Las Vegas RaidersLocked On Podcast Network, Your Boy Q - 82
IT IS WHAT IT ISMa$e & Cam'ron - 83
Bussin' With The BoysBussin' with the Boys - 84
The Big O PodcastGlenn Ordway - 85
Get UpESPN, Mike Greenberg - 86
The Ringer NFL ShowThe Ringer - 87
Iowa Everywhere712 Media, Keith Murphy, Andy Fales, Murph & Andy, Chris Hassel, Chris Williams, Andrew Downs - 88
P1 with Matt and TommyStak - 89
Ringer TailgateThe Ringer - 90
ESPN College GameDayESPN, Rece Davis, Pete Thamel - 91
Men In BlazersMen In Blazers - 92
Gil's ArenaPlaymaker and iHeartPodcasts - 93
Sharp or SquareiHeartPodcasts and The Volume - 94
Elevate 2 GreatTrey Fowler - 95
MGoBlog: The MGoPodcastMGoBlog - 96
Locked On LSU - Daily Podcast On LSU Tigers Football & BasketballLocked On Podcast Network, Caroline Fenton - 97
Bear GreaseMeatEater - 98
Mostly Sports With Mark Titus and Brandon WalkerBarstool Sports - 99
Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)Jomboy Media - 100
First Things FirstFOX Sports - 101
The Rich Eisen ShowESPN, Rich Eisen Productions, Rich Eisen
Sports 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.
33 of these 100 shows have a name longer than 25 characters. The average is 24.6. The longest is "Locked On LSU - Daily Podcast On LSU Tigers Football & Basketball", which is not a name that fits in a list row.
18 of them get by on two words or fewer. Those are the covers that can set their name large enough to read while scrolling.
Barstool Sports holds 6 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.
14 of these 100 also chart in the United Kingdom. The other 86 are local to this store, which is the part of the chart worth studying if you are publishing into it.