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Off The Chart: 4 February 1988

Off The Chart: 4 February 1988

There’s an exciting new look to Off The Chart as it celebrates its 201st show! Sadly the show itself contains the same old rubbish as usual, but we’ll be looking at the chart from this day in 1988 and playing some of the hits you might not expect to hear on the radio. We’ll also play tracks from three of the week’s new albums, as well as looking at the day’s events, TV & radio highlights, the day’s gigs, the Canadian chart from the same day, and concluding with the top five singles in all their glory.

  • Which band released over thirty albums but only ever managed three top 40 singles?
  • Which famous drummer formed a new band, then got the singer from his main band to sing on his album?
  • And which 1988 hit apparently contains the greatest key change of all time?

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: 1 September 1989

Off The Chart: 1 September 1989

We’re getting perilously close to the 1990s on this week’s Off The Chart as we revisit the UK singles chart from the first week in September 1989. As usual Steve and Julian drag you through two hours of forgotten and … read more