Tuesday 8 April 1980

By producercat

Some people might say my life is in a rut, but they probably didn’t listen to last week’s Off The Chart which was so confusing and all over the place that you’d be happy to return to the usual comfortable rut this week. Except it’s actually another exciting and unpredictable show, because it’s 1980 and…

Off The Chart Gold: Monday 21 January 1980

By producercat

It’s almost a 1970s special on your favourite ’80s chart show this week, as we go back a whole forty-five years to this day in January 1980! As usual there’s two hours of hits you might just about vaguely remember, tracks from three of the week’s new hit albums, a look at what was going…

Wednesday 19 November 1980

By producercat

Feeling like a number one? Then why not go now so that you can listen to this week’s Off The Chart in comfort? We’re going all the way back to 1980 and playing some of the more obscure and baffling hits from the Record Business singles chart, including something that is not, by any stretch…

Wednesday 10 September 1980

By producercat

Regrettably, we’re going all the way back to 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart as we take on the Record Business chart from forty-four years ago this week. That inevitably means a number of hits from the bottom of the RB top 100 that never got a sniff of the Official top 75, but…

Wednesday 2 July 1980

By producercat

As we ease over the hill into the second half of the year, rest assured that everything on this week’s Off The Chart is at least forty-four years old and the passage of time is therefore ultimately meaningless. Yes, it’s 1980 this week, and we’ve trawled the Record Business singles chart to bring you your…