We’re going back a terrifyingly long way to this day in 1981 for this week’s Off The Chart! Join us for another two hours of hits you don’t remember very well, plus tracks from three of the week’s new albums, a day trip to the Spanish chart, a nose at the day’s news, TV & Radio highlights and the top five singles in all their glory. And maybe even a bonus track if we’ve got time.
- Which band had five singles in this week’s chart, recorded with four different line-ups?
- What was voted the best single ever to peak at number 2?
- And which single took 37 years to go platinum in the UK?
Tune in and find out!
Listen to Off The Chart on Mad Wasp Radio at 9pm every Tuesday! You can stream Mad Wasp 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 somehow not around for any of the radio broadcasts, catch up on Mixcloud from Thursday evening.
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Now 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’re now putting the talky bits together into a podcast! In this week’s deluxe, gold-embossed episode Steve and Julian discuss the International Who’s Who of Intellectuals and how climate change could have been halted decades ago if everyone hadn’t been watching the British Rock and Pop Awards. It’ll all make sense if you listen.
Spotify playlists
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!
