Thursday 28 May 1981

By producercat

We’re shaking things up again on this week’s Off The Chart as, instead of the Official top 75 from this day in 1981, we’re looking at the Record Business Top 100! This gives us even more obscure, neglected and forgotten hits to choose from, supplemented by the usual features including three new entries from the…

Saturday 13 December 1980

By producercat

Strap yourselves in, we’re heading all the way back to 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart and it’s not going to be an easy journey. We will, of course, reward you with two hours of obscure, neglected and forgotten hits, tracks from three of the week’s new albums, a round-up of the day’s goings-on…

Sunday 28 December 1980

By producercat

After the excitement of Christmas we’re back to normal on this week’s Off The Chart and, inconveniently, we’ve landed on 1980 where there was no chart published at all in the week after Christmas. Nevertheless we can still bring you two hours of obscure, forgotten and half-remembered hits, plus three of the week’s big albums,…

Off The Cards

By producercat

We asked, you answered, we spent ages with an abacus and several pads of paper, and now we can reveal the twenty most popular Christmas hits of the ’80s – for this year, anyway. This year’s Off The Chart Christmas special delivers a few surprises, but who gets the unexpectedly huge mysterious parcel under their…

Monday 9 June 1980

By producercat

Come back a full four decades to revisit this day in 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart! There’s the usual batch of obscure and forgotten hits, three of the week’s big new albums, a round-up of the day’s events, a look at the New Zealand chart and the top five singles in full. Whose…