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Off The Cards

Off The Cards

We asked, you answered, we spent ages with an abacus and several pads of paper, and now we can reveal the twenty most popular Christmas hits of the ’80s – for this year, anyway. This year’s Off The Chart Christmas special delivers a few surprises, but who gets the unexpectedly huge mysterious parcel under their tree and who gets a lump of coal? Join us at 10pm on Noisebox Radio to 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: 31 August 1982

Off The Chart: 31 August 1982

As August 2021 fades into oblivion, why not join us on Off The Chart and revisit the end of August 1982? We’ll supply a load of hits, some you might remember, some you may never have heard before, some you’d … read more

Off The Chart: 13 July 1983

Off The Chart: 13 July 1983

Come join us for another trip back in time as we revisit today in 1983 on this week’s Off The Chart! We’ll have the usual bucketload of obscure and forgotten hits, three of the week’s new albums, a round-up of … read more

Off The Chart: 8 September 1982

Off The Chart: 8 September 1982

Come back to this day in 1982 on this week’s Off The Chart as we revisit the UK singles chart, picking out some of the hits you’ve forgotten or never knew existed. We’ll also keep you abreast of the day’s … read more

Off The Chart: 11 August 1984

Off The Chart: 11 August 1984

We’ll try and keep Orwellian disinformation to an absolute minimum on Off The Chart this week as we go back to this day in 1984! As usual there’s a brace of hits you might not remember, plus three of the … read more

Off The Chart: 30 June 1982

Off The Chart: 30 June 1982

We’re off back to this day in 1982 on another Off The Chart! Join us for two hours of obscure, forgotten and half remembered hits, as well as three of the week’s new albums, a look at the day’s events, … read more

Off The Chart: 16 July 1982

Off The Chart: 16 July 1982

Come back to the summer of 1982 on this week’s Off The Chart! There’s the usual brace of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three of the week’s new hit albums, a look at the day’s events, an international hit and the … read more

Off The Chart: 21 April 1984

Off The Chart: 21 April 1984

We’re rewinding back to 1984 on this week’s Off The Chart! Join us for two hours of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of the week’s big albums, a look at the day’s events, a hit from the … read more

Off The Sleigh: the Off The Chart Christmas Special 2017

Off The Sleigh

Remember voting for your favourite ’80s Christmas hits back in November? Finally Steve and Julian can reveal the results in this special festive edition of Off The Chart! Find out how your favourites fared as we count down all twenty-two … read more

Further Off The Chart 4 (and why you should back us on Patreon if you don’t already)

Further Off The Chart 4

Exclusively for our wonderful Patreon subscribers, episode 4 of Further Off The Chart allows us to mop up some of the tracks that came up in conversation during the regular weekly show. On today’s edition Captain Sensible covers one of … read more

Carry On Off The Chart: Red Nose Day special!

Carry On Off The Chart

A few weeks back we asked you to vote for your favourite comedy and novelty records of the ’80s, and now the results can be revealed in our Red Nose Day Off The Chart special! Who’ll be number one? An … read more

Off The Tree

Off The Tree

Join Steve and Julian for the Off The Chart Christmas party! Two hours of ’80s Xmas hits, misses and obscurities, with a few more familiar tracks thrown in for good measure. Who was Steve’s first celebrity follower on Twitter? What … read more