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Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast

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About the show

The podcast that takes one random episode of Top Of The Pops - the greatest TV Pop show ever - and breaks it down to its very last compound. Created by Sarah Bee, Neil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes, Simon Price and David Stubbs (who all wrote for Melody Maker) and hosted by Al Needham (who didn't), it's an unflinching gaze into the open wound of pop culture and a celebration of Thursday evenings past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest episodes

  • Chart Music #78- February 16th 1978: Paint Along With Nancy Spungen

    May 7, 2026 · 5 hr 46 min

    The latest episode of the podcast which asks; Emu versus Bernie Clifton’s ostrich – who wins in a fight? This episode is practically a scientific experiment, Pop-Crazed Youngsters; Al’s been wondering what the optimum age is to reap the…

  • #78 (Pt 4): 16.2.78 – Paint Along With Nancy Spungeon

    May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    Simon Price, David Stubbs and Al Needham finish off a classic episode of TOTP by strutting through New York with a paint pot in hand, being delighted to learn that Sweep is a Punk Rocker now, contemplating the Agnetharse, and being…

  • #78 (Pt 3): 16.2.78 – Paint Along With Nancy Spungeon

    May 5, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    David Stubbs, Simon Price and Al Needham plunge the critical fist even deeper into this episode of TOTP, and the big names keep coming. Darts begin their biggest year by not doing The Wank! Legs & Co are finally granted full ramp access to…

  • #78 (Pt 2): 16.2.78 – Paint Along With Nancy Spungeon

    May 4, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

    Simon Price, David Stubbs and Al Needham begin their odyssey through this episode of The Pops, and what a opening! We get a blast of a tune none of us have heard before, followed by Tom Robinson not being allowed to self-admit his Gayness…

  • #78 (Pt 1): 16.2.78 – Paint Along With Nancy Spungeon

    May 3, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

    The return of the podcast that gets it’s hand right down the back of the settee of an episode of Top Of The Pops. Al Needham has a theory that, like World Cups, the TOTPs nearest to your tenth birthday are the sweetest, which is an excuse…

  • Chart Music #77: December 27th 1971: Six Tins Of Bachelors Peas

    January 24, 2026 · 5 hr 33 min

    The latest episode of the podcast which asks; Tango or Telstar? Yes, it’s that time of the year, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – we decide to do a Christmas episode, and then Christmas happens and gets in the way of everything, the bastard…

  • #77 (Pt 4): 27.12.71 – Six Tins Of Batchelors Peas

    January 23, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    David Stubbs, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham reach the end of their journey through 1971 with the unsavoury sight of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, before Diana Ross goes all Tales Of The Unexpected on us. The New Seekers – the shoulders that…

  • #77 (Pt 3): 27.12.71 – Six Tins Of Batchelors Peas

    January 22, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    Taylor Parkes, David Stubbs and Al Needham continue to gorge upon the selection box of 1971, and the big hitters have arrived. Slade – midway through their gestation into Tramps Of The Future – pitch up with their first #1. George Harrison…