Sports Podcast Covers in the US: Top 100

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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Apple’s current top 100 for Sports in the United States, in chart order.Cover art belongs to the shows and is served from Apple’s own servers. Every one links to that podcast on Apple Podcasts.

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Other genres in the United States

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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.

39 of these 100 shows have a name longer than 25 characters. The average is 26.4. The longest is "Locked On Auburn - Daily Podcast On Auburn Tigers Football & Basketball", which is not a name that fits in a list row.

15 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 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.

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