Off The Chart: 5 February 1980

Off The Chart: 5 February 1980

We’re going all the way back to 1980 on this week’s Off The Chart for another two hours of hits, headlines and hokum. As always we’ll bring you a brace of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of the week’s big albums, a look at the day’s events and the week’s top five singles in full, plus a rundown of the West German top 20. Who’s the biggest selling Western group in Japanese pop music history? Who released an album in 1979 that was hailed as the best album of the 1980s? And who started their long and distinguished chart career with a song about a phone box? Hit PLAY to find out!

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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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