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Off The Chart: 1 September 1988

Off The Chart: 1 September 1988

Join us for a trip back to this day in 1988 on Off The Chart as we sift through the dregs of the UK singles chart in search of undiscovered nuggets. As usual we’ll be playing some of the week’s hits you haven’t heard for ages, if at all, plus three new entries on the album chart (we have some this week), a look at the day’s events, a quick trip across the Channel to look at the French chart, and back home for the top five in full.

  • Who spent seventeen weeks at number 1 in Japan with a single that barely registered at home?
  • Whose cover of a ’60s hit was scuppered when the original version started outselling it?
  • And what was the first African single to sell a million copies?

Tune in and find out!

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There’s a podcast too!

For those of you who enjoy the nonsense we talk but don’t have time to listen to the music, we’ve put the talky bits together with some exclusive extras to make a podcast! This week Steve and Julian discuss the day’s UK charts with a side order of other things that were going on, as well as discussion of Kajagoogoo’s solicitors, Julian’s Brother Beyond rant, and TV’s latest dynamic duo McGillivray and Piles. It’ll all make sense if you listen.

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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: 5 August 1988

Off The Chart: 5 August 1988

We’re going back to 1988 on this week’s Off The Chart as Steve and Julian unearth some forgotten hits, look back at the day’s events and play three tracks from a featured album, a track from this week’s French chart … read more