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Off The Chart: 15 June 1982

Off The Chart: 15 June 1982

Come back to this day in 1982 on this week’s Off The Chart as we cherry pick some of the less obvious hits from the week’s chart. We’ll also have tracks from three of the new entries on the album chart, a round-up of the day’s events, a look at the Australian chart and the top five singles in full, nearly all of which are excellent.

  • Who had a worldwide number one with a song that only made number 97 five years earlier?
  • Who scored his only hit single with a song sung by his own daughter?
  • And whose number 45 hit became a top twenty hit for someone else a year later?

Tune in and find out!


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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!

Off The Chart: 3 March 1987

Off The Chart: 3 March 1987

Join us on this week’s Off The Chart as we revisit the singles chart from this day in 1987, which was already full of old songs due to their use in films and TV ads. Still, we’ll pick through them … read more

Sound of the Crowd – a Discography of the ’80s: Fourth Edition available now!

Sound of the Crowd - 4th Edition cover

Sound Of The Crowd: a Discography of the ’80sΒ is the ultimate record collector’s guide to the 1980s. In the era of multi-formatting, picture discs, coloured vinyl, multiple remixes, funny shaped records and tiny CDs you could lose down the back … read more

Off The Chart: 21 October 1982

We’re going back to this very day in 1982 on Off The Chart as Steve and Julian guide us gently through the week’s hits – some big, some small, some not as big as you remember and some you probably … read more

Chart Watch and New Releases: 2 June 2017

The Joshua Tree 30th anniversary

It’s still not an ’80s record but we’re claiming it anyway: the seminal Beatles album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its twentieth anniversary in 1987 by returning to number 1 in the album chart, … read more

Chart Watch and New Releases: 26 May 2017

Kraftwerk: 3-D - The Catalogue

Erasure enter the album chart at number 6 with World Be Gone, their thirteenth top twenty album and their highest placing since I Say I Say I Say brought their run of five consecutive number one albums to a close … read more

Off The Chart: 18 June 1982

Off The Chart: 18 June 1982

Who did Malcolm McLaren ask to front the Sex Pistols before Johnny Rotten? Who is The Bald Detective? And what are those “things that a woman ain’t s’posed to see?” Find out in this week’s Off The Chart as Steve … read more