The latest Phoenix FM chart is now out - you can see the new one every Monday morning and hear it throughout the week on air #top20 #ukcharts

Here's the new Phoenix FM chart - tune in to hear tracks from it on air during the week!

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Here's the new Phoenix FM chart! You can see the brand new chart every Monday morning

24 years ago today: the launch party for our permanent online radio service. Guests of honour were Steve Davis's Spitting Image puppet, and David Soul

25 years ago: an article in the Essex Courier about the early days of Phoenix FM. At this point we'd been a part-time radio station for 4 years

Congratulations to KARIS TAYLOR who has topped the first ever Phoenix FM chart! New chart every Monday morning!

Tomorrow sees the start of our brand new Phoenix FM chart! We'll be publishing it every Monday morning - and you can hear tracks from the top 20 throughout the week on Phoenix FM

8 years ago today: American singer/songwriter Dean Friedman in the studio playing live. Lovely guy!

Had a great chat with recently-reformed Peel favourites The Samurai Seven tonight - you can hear it, plus an exclusive session, on Friday's show!

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20 years ago today: Paul Golder interviewing Andrew Collins at Billericay Library as part of the Essex Book Festival

Fourth band tonight - London heavy rock band SNM

Second band of the night - Southend's Mystery Team

First band up tonight - The White Gates Band

We're at the Pink Toothbrush in Rayleigh tonight for the final of unsigned band competiton Stray Tracks

9 years ago today: Xanthe Bearman interviewing Erasure's Andy Bell in London for her GR80s show

11 years ago today: a visit from a multiple world snooker champion. We're not sure who wrote "LEARN TO PARK TWAT" in the dust on the back of his car. (He thought it might have been one of the other players at his last tournament)

9 years ago today: One of our favouritist sessions we've ever recorded - TURIN BRAKES played for us at the Creative Recording Studios in Brentwood

Also 23 years ago today: crime writer MARTINA COLE on one of her many visits to our studios

23 years ago today: Chesney Hawkes playing live in the Phoenix FM studio

13 years ago today: we vacated our previous studios at the Baytree Centre in Brentwood