Come back to this day in 1986 for another two hours of hits, headlines and happy-ever-afters on this week’s Off The Chart! As always Steve and Julian scour the week’s UK singles chart for half-remembered hits, plus three tracks from a hit album, the bafflement of the Arthur Dent Moment, a hit from an international chart and the top five in full. Which single set a new record for the biggest ever jump within the top 75? Which group celebrated its twentieth anniversary with only half its members? And which band reached the top 40 albums chart for the first time in 2018, a full thirty-two years after its debut? Click PLAY to find out!
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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!
