Join Steve and Julian as they spend two hours dismantling the UK singles chart of 29 April 1989! They’re playing lots of hits you don’t hear all that often, three tracks from the week’s featured album, a song from this … read more
A new year, a new jingle, a new feature (because we’ve run out of films) but lots of old records as usual on Off The Chart as we go back to the first chart of 1988! Steve and Julian play … read more
Nothing much to report in the way of new releases this week, for obvious reasons, but after a bit of a lull last week the inclusion of streaming data has helped the Christmas singles surged back up the chart. Inevitably … read more
It seems the Christmas single rush has already peaked, as Fairytale of New York slips 2 places 18, Last Christmas drops a place to 20 and Merry Christmas Everyone also falls one position to 29. Still looking good for Chris … read more
Amazon.co.uk Widgets The Rolling Stones’ new blues album Blue & Lonesome enters the chart at number 1 this week with over 100,000 sales, the second biggest opening week total this year after Bowie’s ★ shifted 146,000 in January. It’s also … read more
This month’s Virtual C90 includes new music from ABC, UB40, The Rolling Stones, Jean-Michel Jarre and Cliff Richard, plus a mix of festive and not-so-festive ’80s hits, misses and mixes. Enjoy! read more
Back to 1983 on this week’s Off The Chart! It’s not quite Christmas but Steve and Julian have unearthed some of the overlooked hits of the week including a very famous TV star, a forgotten single by one of the … read more
It’s officially Christmas as The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl embark on their annual climb up the single chart, Fairytale of New York re-entering this week at 66, stealing a march on Wham!’s Last Christmas at 75 and Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry … read more
Time for a celebration, as Michael Hurll has got his abacus out and decided that we’ve reached the 900th edition of Top of the Pops. Blow up the balloons! Break out the streamers! Bring on the dancing girls! And then … read more
Revisiting the chart of 2 July 1981. Steve and Julian play the records you don’t normally hear on a chart show, as well as three tracks from a featured album of the week and the entire top five singles, whether … read more
Rush rush, busy busy, rush rush, busy busy! A combination of a condensed thirty minute show due to Wimbledon fortnight, the continuing lack of a proper opening sequence and a poorly chosen first song with a short intro means that … read more
1987 saw the proper arrival of house music in the UK, with Steve “Silk” Hurley’s Jack Your Body topping the chart in January and M/A/R/R/S blithely sampling every record they could get their hands on and reaching number 1 with … read more
