Off The Chart: 12 May 1987

Off The Chart: 12 May 1987

Despite the confusion over lockdown rules, it’s perfectly safe to listen to this week’s Off The Chart at the same time as everyone else! Stay at home and join us for two hours of forgotten hits from this day in 1987, as well as the usual look at the day’s events, three of the week’s new albums, a squint at the Italian chart and the top five singles in full.

  • Who had twenty-seven hit singles over twenty years but only reached the top thirty once?
  • Who charted with an album of B-sides before they’d had a top 75 single?
  • And which two acts were in the top five with their first big hit in fifteen years?

Tune in and find out!

Listen to Off The Chart on Noisebox Radio at 9pm every Tuesday! You can stream Noisebox Radio via their website, their apps for iOS or Android, or through TuneIn and MyTuner – and don’t forget to tweet along using the hashtag #OffTheChart. If you’re not around, you can hear the show again on Noisebox Radio at 10am on Friday, or catch up on Mixcloud after that.

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There’s a podcast too!

For those of you who enjoy the nonsense we talk but don’t have time to listen to the music, we’ve put the talky bits together with some exclusive extras to make a podcast! This week’s podcast looks at the day’s hits and events as usual, but along the way no doubt we’ll get sidetracked by Madonna’s blue rinse, a record without a hole in the middle and a man taking his clothes off in a laundrette. It’ll all make sense if you listen.

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Spotify playlists

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If you’ve missed a previous edition they’re all on our Mixcloud page, or for a taster of the music we play, listen to our Spotify playlist Way Off The Chart including one track from each show!

We also have a Spotify playlist for our #ICEOTWF feature, including all (well, most) of the international hits we’ve played since the feature began in March 2017. There are all sorts of oddities in here, all of which were hits somewhere in the world but not in the UK!

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