After last week’s shenanigans we’re on firmer ground this week as we look at the chart from this day in 1989! As always there’s a brace of forgotten hits, a look at the day’s events, three tracks from a (somewhat unorthodox) featured album, a track from an international chart and the top five in full, whether you want it or not. As you still persist in not backing us at on Patreon there’s also a forfeit track which our backers don’t have to sit through. Which singer in today’s show grew up on the same street as The Jacksons? Which one hit wonders are now peddling the same hit in two different line-ups? And who was banned from Japanese TV for spitting and using a rude word? Click PLAY to find out!
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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!
