Wednesday 3 February 1982

By producercat

Never a frown with Off The Chart, even in a funny old week like this. We’re looking at the Record Business top 100 from this week in 1982, but two of the songs in the top ten were so far ahead of their time that they each took four years to become hit singles. Still,…

Leap Year Chart Research Addendum

By producercat

Um, yeah, look, there’s been a bit of a cock-up. Not our fault, really, but adding in an extra day last week because of the leap year has thrown everything out of whack, with the result that the day we should be covering today, 5 March 1986, is a day we already did five years…

Global Off The Chart 4

By producercat

This week the increasingly confusing Global Off The Chart juggernaut rolls into Italy for a look at the Italian chart today in 1989, and then onwards to Canada to examine their singles chart from today in 1984. Join Steve and Julian for two hours of even more obscure hits than usual, plus a few familiar…

Friday 28 November 1980

By producercat

We’re going all the way back to 1980 on Off The Chart this week, a terrifyingly long time ago but we’ve still managed to cobble together two hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits, tracks from three of the week’s new albums, a round up of news stories, TV, radio and gig highlights, a hit…

Thursday 28 February 1985

By producercat

Incredibly this week’s Off The Chart is the 350th edition! Not that we’re dong anything special to celebrate, we’re too busy cramming in all the usual obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from this week in 1985, as well as three of the week’s new albums, a round-up of the day’s news, TV, radio and gigs,…