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Off The Chart: 22 March 1988

Off The Chart: 22 March 1988

It’s a new dexy and a new home for Off The Chart as we pick up the whole shebang and drop it onto Noisebox Radio! Everything else is just as normal, however, because we’ll have your regular two hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from this day in 1988, as well as three of the week’s big new albums, a round-up of the day’s events, a quick visit to the New Zealand chart, and back home for the top five in full, as per.

  • Whose career was torpedoed when her debut single was cannibalised to make a remix for someone else?
  • Who had seventeen hit singles before finally reaching the top five?
  • And which TV theme composer had a hit with a medley of someone else’s songs?

Tune in and find out!



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Spotify playlists

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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!

Off The Chart: 30 November 1987

Off The Chart: 30 November 1987

Hoots, och aye, help ma boab and all sorts of other stereotypical Scottish phrases – it’s St Andrew’s Day and this week’s Off The Chart is going as Scottish as it possibly can, by which we mean there’s lots of … read more

Off The Chart: 7 September 1986

Off The Chart: 7 September 1986

Come back with us to this day in 1986 for another Off The Chart! As always we’ll bombard you with hits you’d forgotten about or didn’t remember in the first place, along with three of the week’s new albums, a … read more

Off The Chart: 29 September 1987

Off The Chart: 29 September 1987

This week’s Off The Chart is brought to you in association with the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, due to the continued unreliability of the Official Charts website, but we’ll still endeavour to bring you a shedload of unfamiliar … read more

Off The Chart: 15 September 1986

15 September 1986

This week we’re shining a torch into the ear of 1986 on Off The Chart as we revisit the UK charts of this day 34 years ago. As always we’ll have a load of hits you might not remember, as … read more

Off The Chart: 15 October 1987

Off The Chart: 15 October 1987

Whether you’re getting a job, joining the army or just playing records at a high degree of amplification, come back to 1987 with us on this week’s Off The Chart! As always we’ll have a brace of forgotten and half-remembered … read more

Off The Chart: 1 October 1986

Off The Chart: 1 October 1986

It’s a special occasion on this week’s Off The Chart as we celebrate the birthday of all our listeners who haven’t told us when their birthday is! There’s cake for everyone – literally – and a host of hits large … read more

Now Parlez 8

Now Parlez 8 artwork

Join Steve and Julian from Off The Chart as they dig another Now album out of the box! This time around they’re talking about Now That’s What I Call Music 8 and playing tracks from an original vinyl copy. Hit … read more

Now Parlez 6

Now Parlez 6 artwork

The sixth edition of Now Parlez in which Steve and Julian from Off The Chart discuss a Now That’s What I Call Music album and play some of the tracks from it. This time we’ve alighted on Now 6 from … read more

Mixcloud Select: Get Down Shep

Get Down Shep

January 2018’s Virtual CD of the Month Get Down Shep was nothing to do with John Noakes or the Barron Knights; instead it’s a banging selection of Shep Pettibone remixes, taking in all sorts of artists from Elton John to … read more

Off The Chart: 9 July 1988

Off The Chart: 9 July 1988

The cycle never stops – no sooner have we come to the end of one dexy than we’re starting another one! It’s 1988 on this week’s Off The Chart, with the usual mixture of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three of … read more

Off The Chart: 8 January 1987

Off The Chart: 8 January 1987

No, we haven’t disappeared or been taken off the air (although you could be forgiven for thinking we had, after the last show we did), we’ve just moved to Tuesdays for the new series of Off The Chart! Join us … read more