Off The Chart
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The '80s chart show that takes you on a trip down Memory Lane then abandons you on What The Hell's This? Avenue. Tuesdays at 9pm on Noisebox Radio.
The only non-compilation new entry on the album chart this week, new at 64, "Inside Information" was the sixth studio album by Foreigner. It did better in the US where it reached no.15 and went Platinum. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The only non-compilation new entry on the album chart this week, new at 64, "Inside Information" was the sixth studio album by Foreigner. It did better in the US where it reached no.15 and went Platinum. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
The highest new entry at 36 on the album chart, "Once Upon a Time - The Singles", a rather meagre compilation of ten early tracks by Siouxsie & The Banshees, including this track "Mirage" which wasn't even a single. Still, the album gave them their first Gold record. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The highest new entry at 36 on the album chart, "Once Upon a Time - The Singles", a rather meagre compilation of ten early tracks by Siouxsie & The Banshees, including this track "Mirage" which wasn't even a single. Still, the album gave them their first Gold record. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
"Notorious" was Duran Duran's first studio album for three years and their first since the departure of Andy and Roger Taylor. Their first three albums all reached the top three, but "Notorious" entered at its peak position of no.16 this week. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Notorious" was Duran Duran's first studio album for three years and their first since the departure of Andy and Roger Taylor. Their first three albums all reached the top three, but "Notorious" entered at its peak position of no.16 this week. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Despite including their last top 40 hit "My Girl Lollipop", Bad Manners' fourth album "Forging Ahead" did no such thing, spending just one week on the chart at no.78. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Despite including their last top 40 hit "My Girl Lollipop", Bad Manners' fourth album "Forging Ahead" did no such thing, spending just one week on the chart at no.78. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
"Retreat To Nowhere", from "From Enslavement to Obliteration" by Napalm Death, new at no.7 on the Indie Albums chart and no.8 on the Other Albums chart. The second album by the West Midlands grindcore legends, it features 22 tracks and plays for less than half an hour. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"Retreat To Nowhere", from "From Enslavement to Obliteration" by Napalm Death, new at no.7 on the Indie Albums chart and no.8 on the Other Albums chart. The second album by the West Midlands grindcore legends, it features 22 tracks and plays for less than half an hour. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at 62, "The Queen Album", surprisingly an album of Queen songs by Elaine Paige. It peaked at 51 and spent eight weeks on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New at 62, "The Queen Album", surprisingly an album of Queen songs by Elaine Paige. It peaked at 51 and spent eight weeks on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
You know, we've got all these hundreds of old episodes of #OffTheChart just gathering dust in a shoebox, we might as well put some of them on again for you to enjoy, right? Off The Chart Gold, 5pm every Sunday on @noiseboxradio.com - like the current show but when we were younger and funnier.
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You know, we've got all these hundreds of old episodes of #OffTheChart just gathering dust in a shoebox, we might as well put some of them on again for you to enjoy, right? Off The Chart Gold, 5pm every Sunday on @noiseboxradio.com - like the current show but when we were younger and funnier.
The ironically titled "We Are The Clash" from "Cut The Crap", the 6th and final studio album by The Clash, although by this stage it was just Joe Strummer and the band's manager Bernie Rhodes making the records. New at 16 this week, it spent just three weeks on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The ironically titled "We Are The Clash" from "Cut The Crap", the 6th and final studio album by The Clash, although by this stage it was just Joe Strummer and the band's manager Bernie Rhodes making the records. New at 16 this week, it spent just three weeks on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
"Gob On You" from the album "Not The Nine O'Clock News", the first of three albums of songs and sketches from the comedy show of the same name. This and their second album "Hedgehog Sandwich" both reached no.5 on the album chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Gob On You" from the album "Not The Nine O'Clock News", the first of three albums of songs and sketches from the comedy show of the same name. This and their second album "Hedgehog Sandwich" both reached no.5 on the album chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Yep, Paul McCartney's "Give My Regards To Broad Street" may have been a disaster of a film but the soundtrack album was new at no.1 this week in 1984. The album sees Macca revisiting old classics like "Eleanor Rigby", "Yesterday" and "The Long and Winding Road". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
October 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Yep, Paul McCartney's "Give My Regards To Broad Street" may have been a disaster of a film but the soundtrack album was new at no.1 this week in 1984. The album sees Macca revisiting old classics like "Eleanor Rigby", "Yesterday" and "The Long and Winding Road". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Yes, as given away by the backing vocals before she's even started, this is Liza Minnelli covering "Twist In My Sobriety" from her Pet Shop Boys-produced album "Results", new at no.6 this week in 1989. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
October 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Yes, as given away by the backing vocals before she's even started, this is Liza Minnelli covering "Twist In My Sobriety" from her Pet Shop Boys-produced album "Results", new at no.6 this week in 1989. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
If you need more '80s than just 2 hours of 1989 in Off The Chart at 9pm AND a bonus hour of Off The Chart Too at 11, why not get over to @noiseboxradio.com an hour early? @benbaker.bsky.social is playing alternative music from '80s films in Middle-Aged Teenage Angst from 8pm! noiseboxradio.com/
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you need more '80s than just 2 hours of 1989 in Off The Chart at 9pm AND a bonus hour of Off The Chart Too at 11, why not get over to @noiseboxradio.com an hour early? @benbaker.bsky.social is playing alternative music from '80s films in Middle-Aged Teenage Angst from 8pm! noiseboxradio.com/
"Home By The Sea" from the twelfth studio album by Genesis, called *checks notes*.... "Genesis". New at no.1 this week it went Double Platinum and spent just short of a year on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"Home By The Sea" from the twelfth studio album by Genesis, called *checks notes*.... "Genesis". New at no.1 this week it went Double Platinum and spent just short of a year on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
"Live in Budapest" was one of three video tapes Queen had in the Music Video chart this week, all right next to each other at 17, 18 and 19. It was later remastered and expanded as "Hungarian Rhapsody" in 2012. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Live in Budapest" was one of three video tapes Queen had in the Music Video chart this week, all right next to each other at 17, 18 and 19. It was later remastered and expanded as "Hungarian Rhapsody" in 2012. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at no.10 this week, "Music For The Masses", the sixth album by Depeche Mode. Despite the title it was actually one of their least successful albums, spending just 4 weeks on the UK chart. Nevertheless, it was their breakthrough album in the US, where it went Platinum. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
New at no.10 this week, "Music For The Masses", the sixth album by Depeche Mode. Despite the title it was actually one of their least successful albums, spending just 4 weeks on the UK chart. Nevertheless, it was their breakthrough album in the US, where it went Platinum. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
"The Square" from "Thirty Thousand Feet Over China", the second album by the Passions, spending just a single week on the album chart at no.92 this week. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
September 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"The Square" from "Thirty Thousand Feet Over China", the second album by the Passions, spending just a single week on the album chart at no.92 this week. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Don’t you ever, don’t you ever stop listening to Off The Chart for your weekly fix of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits! We’re in 1981 this week, nosing around the Record Business top 100 from 9pm on Noisebox Radio! offthechart.show/30-...
September 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Don’t you ever, don’t you ever stop listening to Off The Chart for your weekly fix of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits! We’re in 1981 this week, nosing around the Record Business top 100 from 9pm on Noisebox Radio! offthechart.show/30-...
The highest new entry on the album chart this week at no.7, "True Stories" was Talking Heads' seventh studio album. It includes studio recordings of songs that were used in the film "True Stories", directed by David Byrne. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
September 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The highest new entry on the album chart this week at no.7, "True Stories" was Talking Heads' seventh studio album. It includes studio recordings of songs that were used in the film "True Stories", directed by David Byrne. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at no.97 this week in 1982, "Ice Cream For Crow", the 12th and final studio album released by Captain Beefheart in his lifetime. After its release he retired from music to become a painter. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
September 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New at no.97 this week in 1982, "Ice Cream For Crow", the 12th and final studio album released by Captain Beefheart in his lifetime. After its release he retired from music to become a painter. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at its peak of no.30 this week in 1988, this uninteligible mess is the sleeve of "Answers to Nothing", the second solo album by Midge Ure. This track "Remembrance Day" features Mick Karn of Japan on bass and Mark Brzezicki of Big Country on drums. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New at its peak of no.30 this week in 1988, this uninteligible mess is the sleeve of "Answers to Nothing", the second solo album by Midge Ure. This track "Remembrance Day" features Mick Karn of Japan on bass and Mark Brzezicki of Big Country on drums. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
New at no.31 this week in 1985, "Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti", the comeback album by Squeeze after they had split in 1982. Including the almost hit "Last Time Forever", it peaked at 31 and spent 7 weeks on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
September 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New at no.31 this week in 1985, "Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti", the comeback album by Squeeze after they had split in 1982. Including the almost hit "Last Time Forever", it peaked at 31 and spent 7 weeks on the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
No.2 on the album chart this week, "Drama", an anomaly in the Yes back catalogue because Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman had quit the band and been replaced by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes from Buggles. It was a relative flop in the US but went SIlver in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
August 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
No.2 on the album chart this week, "Drama", an anomaly in the Yes back catalogue because Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman had quit the band and been replaced by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes from Buggles. It was a relative flop in the US but went SIlver in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
My mother said, to get things done, you’d better not spend all night listening to Off The Chart! Don't listen to her though, because we've got two hours of hits and hysteria from way back in 1980 starting at 9pm on Noisebox Radio! offthechart.show/26-...
August 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My mother said, to get things done, you’d better not spend all night listening to Off The Chart! Don't listen to her though, because we've got two hours of hits and hysteria from way back in 1980 starting at 9pm on Noisebox Radio! offthechart.show/26-...
"Anything You Want" from the album "Phil Fearon & Galaxy", the debut album by Phil Fearon & Galaxy, new at no.9 this week in 1984. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
August 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Anything You Want" from the album "Phil Fearon & Galaxy", the debut album by Phil Fearon & Galaxy, new at no.9 this week in 1984. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio
Time can never mend the careless record purchases of a good friend, or indeed a large number of people you don’t know. Nevertheless, Off The Chart is here again to cast a slightly critical eye over the UK singles chart of this week in 1984! Join us on Noisebox Radio at 9pm! http://offthechart.s...
August 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Time can never mend the careless record purchases of a good friend, or indeed a large number of people you don’t know. Nevertheless, Off The Chart is here again to cast a slightly critical eye over the UK singles chart of this week in 1984! Join us on Noisebox Radio at 9pm! http://offthechart.s...