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That's it for tonight! Stay with us on @noiseboxradio.com for another hour of 1983 hits in Off The Chart Too, and come back next week when so help us we'll be looking at 1989. G'bu! #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22h

This was the second of six weeks at no.1 for "Karma Chameleon", Culture Club's second no.1 hit and the biggest selling single of 1983. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22h

The first of three no.1s for UB40, all of them cover versions, "Red Red Wine" had settled at no.2 for a second week after three weeks at the top. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22h

Up to no.3, "Modern Love" was the third single from David Bowie's "Let's Dance" album, all of which reached the top 2, making 1983 his most successful year ever in the UK singles chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22h

Down to no.4 after peaking at no.2, "Tonight I Celebrate My Love" was the biggest UK hit for either Peabo Bryson or Roberta Flack. It was Peabo's first hit while Roberta had been having hits since back in 1972. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22h

Down a place from a peak of 4, "Come Back And Stay" was Paul Young's second of six consecutive top ten hits. It was first recorded in 1981 by its writer Jack Lee, who also wrote "Hangin' on the Telephone" which Blondie had a hit with in 1978. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22h

So, um, this version of Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" is a collaboration between Newcastle band Raven and German singer Udo Dirkschneider (from Accept). No.22 on the Heavy Metal Chart this week in 1983, Raven are still going, remarkably. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

Down a place from a peak of no.3 in Belgium, "Annabel" was the biggest hit for Dutch singer-songwriter Hans de Booij, who started his showbiz career as a member of the cabaret group Circus Stupido, before going solo and releasing 20 albums between 1983 and 2020. #ICEOTWF #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

Up to 23, "Sixty Eight Guns" peaked at 17 and was the first and biggest of eight top 40 hits for The Alarm; nine if you count the one from 2004 when they called themselves The Poppy Fields because they didn't think anyone would be interested in The Alarm anymore. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

Peaking at 24, "Rebel Run" was the last top 40 hit for Toyah the band, fronted by Toyah Willcox the singer, although Toyah the singer had a solo top 40 hit with "Don't Fall In Love (I Said)" in 1985. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

Up 2 places to sneak into the top 40 at no.39, "Tears on the Telephone" was yet another underperforming Hot Chocolate single. Their previous single had reached the top ten but this one peaked at 37. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

A spin-off band from The Meteors, The Escalators were no.14 on the indie chart this week with their version of the Munsters Theme, a show which had been introduced to a new generation of viewers since Channel 4 started showing it when it launched 10 months earlier. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

"Send For Me" from the only Peel session by New Age Steppers, a dub collective formed by Adrian Sherwood and featuring members of the Slits, The Pop Group, Public Image Ltd, Rip Rig & Panic and the Raincoats. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

The follow-up to the no.2 hit "I.O.U." from the summer of 1983, Freeez's "Pop Goes My Love" was new at 44 this week and peaked at 26. Their only hit after this was a remix of "I.O.U." in 1987. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

Up 7 places to peak at 63, "Boogie Down" was the third hit of 1983 for Al Jarreau, although the previous two, "Mornin'" and "Trouble in Paradise" had both reached the top 40. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

New at 79, trumpeter Tom Browne (of "Funkin' For Jamaica" fame) following Herbie Hancock's lead and embracing electro and dance music on the title track of his fifth album "Rockin' Radio". It peaked at 76. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 23h

Having trouble with the studio door, "Push Push, Pull Pull" from Judie Tzuke's fifth album "Ritmo", the highest new entry on the album chart at 29 this week in 1983. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 29/09/2026

Kissing The Pink had reached the top twenty back in May with "The Last Film", but they had four hits after that without ever returning to the top 75. "Maybe This Day" was stumbling up to no.88 this day in 1983. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 29/09/2026

From a "Picture on the Wall" to a "Shadow on the Wall", a non-mover at no.95 for Mike Oldfield, featuring vocals by Roger Chapman of the band Family. The follow-up to the top five hit "Moonlight Shadow", this non-moonlit shadow didn't even make the top 90. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 29/09/2026

New at 97, "Picture on the Wall", the second single and the only ever week on the chart for the Natural Ites and the Realistics, a reggae band (or two) formed in Nottingham in 1982. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 29/09/2026

G'mu! 1983 on this week's Off The Chart, starting with one of those British bands that were huge in the States but did next to nothing at home. New at no.100, "One Thing Leads To Another" by The Fixx reached no.4 in the US but only no.86 in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 29/09/2026

Join us at 9pm on @noiseboxradio.com for this week's Off The Chart as we go back to this day in 1983 for some of the lesser heard hits of that week. Hopefully this week everything will go smoothly and there'll be no more annoying cockups. offthechart.show/29-september...

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Sorry about the chaos and the technical bobbins, 1983 next week which should be better! G'bu! #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

And conveniently, thanks to that lawsuit, Rick Astley claimed a fifth week at no.1 with "Never Gonna Give You Up", the best selling single of 1987. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

A non-mover at no.2, thanks to a well-timed lawsuit from Pete Waterman which restricted the distribution of the single, M/A/R/R/S' "Pump up the Volume" would go on to reach no.1 the following week. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Peaking at 3 and written and produced by Alan Tarney, "Some People" was the second single from Cliff Richard's album "Always Guaranteed", his biggest selling studio album. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

The second hit from the soundtrack of her film "Who's That Girl", in August 2018 Billboard ranked "Causing a Commotion" as only Madonna's 85th best song but it peaked at no.4 in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Brand new at no.5, the title track and second of nine hit singles released from Michael Jackson's "Bad" album which was spending its third of five weeks at no.1 this week. The single peaked at no.3. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Up 11 to no.23 on the Indie Chart, with scant regard for copyright laws, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu's second single "Whitney Joins The Jams" sampled the Mission Impossible theme as well as huge swathes of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Not to be confused with the Australian band Helicopters, or the Swedish band Hellacopters, the South African band The Helicopters were no.13 in SA this week with "Whisper Your Secret". #ICEOTWF #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Sorry, real life kind of got in the way for a while there, where were we?

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Up to no.20, "Pour Some Sugar On Me" was the second of six UK top 30 hits from Def Leppard's mega-selling album "Hysteria". In the US it wasn't released as a single until May 1988, when it went all the way to no.2 on the Hot 100. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Peaking at 41, "Let's Work", a bizarre song in which billionaire Mick Jagger lectures the unemployed that they should go and get a job in order to "kill poverty". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

A non-mover at 43, "Secret Agent Man (James Bond Is Back)" was the third hit for Bruce Willis, but whereas the previous two made the top ten, this one stalled here outside the top 40. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

"Sara" was originally a hit for Starship, released as the follow-up to "We Built This City", it reached no.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 but only no.66 in the UK. This version was recorded by Jamaican dancehall artist Frankie Paul and was no.46 on the Dance Chart this week. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

This is.... that was "Dead" from the first Peel session by Napalm Death, broadcast for the first time today in 1987; Peel enjoyed it so much that he played the session in full twice more in October and was still playing tracks from the session on his show as late as 2002. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

Thanks to birthday boy @rhys.newydd.net for suggesting "Strength to Strength" by Hue & Cry, the follow-up to "Labour Of Love" which was their only top ten hit, reaching no.6 back in August. This one was stumbling up to 49 this week and eventually peaked at 46. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

New at 65, "White Coats", the lead track from an EP by New Model Army which peaked at no.50 between their albums "The Ghost of Cain" (1986) and "Thunder & Consolation" (1989). #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

New at 69, "Come On, Let's Go" was Los Lobos' follow-up to their no.1 hit "La Bamba", both covers of Richie Valens songs from the soundtrack of his biopic "La Bamba". This one reached no.18 and was their last top 40 hit in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

"Blue" by Black, from his/their debut album "Wonderful Life", new at its peak of no.3 this week. Including all three of his/their top 40 hit singles, the album went Platinum in the UK. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

"It's All in the Game" was first a hit for Tommy Edwards in 1958, then Cliff Richard in 1963, and also the Four Tops in 1970, but this version peaked at 81 for Carmel, failing to emulate the success of their top 30 hits "Bad Day" and "More, More, More". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

"Imperial" was the second hit for Primal Scream, the follow-up to their previous hit "Gentle Tuesday", both of which peaked at no.86. They went on to score sixteen top 40 hits between 1990 and 2006. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

New at 89, "Here To Go" was the sixth of ten hits for Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire, none of which ever got higher than no.55. The two surviving original members of the band are going out on a farewell tour next month, 53 years after they first got together. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

G'mu all! 1987 on Off The Chart this week, kicking off with "Absolutely Immune" by Act, the duo of Claudia Brücken, formerly of Propaganda, and Scottish keyboardist Thomas Leer. Shamefully it spent just a week at no.97. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 22/09/2026

We're no strangers to technical cock-ups, you know the rules and so do we, so join us at 9pm on @noiseboxradio.com as we go back to this day in 1987! Two hours of lesser heard hits and shenanigans as usual; see if you can spot the point where the gremlins crept in. offthechart.show/22-september...

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 15/09/2026

There we are then, Adam Ant is at no.1 for the next four weeks. Join us next week for 1987, and hang around for another hour of 1981 hits in Off The Chart Too! G'bu! #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 15/09/2026

Up 1 place for the first of four weeks at no.1 on both charts, "Prince Charming" was Adam & The Ants' second consecutive no.1 hit, it came with its own dance, the Prince Charming. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 15/09/2026

Down to no.2 after two weeks at no.1 on the Official Chart and three weeks at no.1 on the Record Business chart, "Tainted Love" was the first of twelve hits for Soft Cell, originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 15/09/2026

Written by the dynamic duo of Alan Tarney and B.A. Robertson, "Wired For Sound" was Cliff Richard's 45th top ten hit single, peaking at 3 on the RB chart and 4 on the Official Chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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Off The Chart @offthechart.show · 15/09/2026

Up to no.4, "Souvenir" was OMD's third hit and their joint biggest in the UK, peaking at no.3 on the Official Chart, the same place as "Sailing on the Seven Seas" a decade later. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

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