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Off The Chart: 7 January 1989

Off The Chart: 7 January 1989

We’re back at the start of the year for another Off The Chart! Join us for a trip back to the 7th of January 1989 involving two hours of hits you might not remember, three selections from the album chart, a jaunt down to New Zealand for a look at their chart, a rundown of the day’s news, TV, radio and gigs, and concluding with the week’s top five singles in full.

  • Which keyboard wizard and guitar hero wrote a song together over the phone?
  • Whose first four singles all hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart?
  • And which of this week’s hits was sampled on two other records that were both top ten hits in the same week sixteen years 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!

Further Off The Chart Nine

Further Off The Chart Nine

Exclusively for our wonderful Patreon backers, here’s another grab bag of some of the records that came up in conversation on Off The Chart over the past dexy. On this episode: a dubious German mashup of the Pet Shop Boys … read more

Off The Chart: 23 December 1988

Off The Chart: 23 December 1988

Come back to Christmas 1988 on Off The Chart as Steve and Julian regale us with some less remembered hits, three tracks from a featured album, an international hit, a look at the day’s events and the top five singles … read more

Virtual C90: October 2017

Virtual C90: October 2017

This month’s mixtape has new music from Morrissey, Tears For Fears, Blancmange, Squeeze, Chris Rea, The Blow Monkeys, Billy Bragg, Gun and The Selecter! Plus new takes on old favourites by a-ha, Belinda Carlisle, The Fizz, The Christians and Inner … read more

1988 Christmas Top 40

Kylie & Jason

Thanks to the increased availability of samplers and home recording equipment, in 1988 36% of the population was taking old records apart and welding them back together to make new ones. Bomb The Bass, Coldcut and S-Express were the most … read more