#OffTheChart SOTN Top Fifteen
Peter Cetera
Jermaine Stewart
Queensrÿche
Owen Paul
Cool Notes
Fatal Charm
Timex Social Club
Hipsway
Elvis Costello
Jaki Graham
Het Goede Doel
Paul Simon
Pete Wylie
Chaz Jankel
Luis Cardenas

Thx @stevebinnie.me.uk & @babel17.bsky.social for a great show, CU next <3

Up a place for the first of four weeks at the top, the Communards' version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" was the biggest selling single of the year and the biggest ever hit for lead singer Jimmy Somerville. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Down a place to no.2 after three weeks at no.1, "I Want To Wake Up With You" was the biggest hit for Boris Gardiner, although he had a bit of a hit in 1970 with "Elizabethan Reggae". #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

A non-mover at no.3 but climbing to no.2 next week, Jermaine Stewart's biggest hit was widely censored to just "We Don't Have To..." which implies that the BBC thought you *should* take your clothes off. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Up two places to no.4, "Rage Hard" was the first single from Frankie Goes To Hollywood's second album "Liverpool" and their last top ten hit. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

No.5 this week, "Glory of Love" was written as the end title song for Rocky IV, but was rejected for that film and eventually turned up as the theme to The Karate Kid Part II. It was the biggest solo hit for former Chicago singer Peter Cetera. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Chaz Jankel was a founding member of the Blockheads and co-wrote many of Ian Dury's best known songs, as well as "Ai No Corrida" which was a hit for Quincy Jones. This week in 1986 he was new at 49 on the Dance Chart with "You're My Occupation" featuring Brenda Jones. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Formed in 1979, Het Goede Doel ("The Good Cause") had twenty hits in the Netherlands between 1982 and 2013. "Zwijgen" ("Silence") climbed 20 places this week in 1986 to peak at no.16 on the Dutch chart. #ICEOTWF #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

"Breaking Away" was the fifth of six top 40 hits for radio's Natalie Graham's mum Jaki Graham, including two with TV's David Grant. This one peaked at 16 but was down to 29 this week. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

New at 34, "Rumors" was the only top 75 hit for the Timex Social Club, or "The Social Club" if you're listening to the BBC. The band split shortly after the success of "Rumors", after which the band's producer and promoter formed another band, Club Nouveau. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Smiley Culture got to no.12 in January 1985 with "Police Officer", but it was over 18 months before his next single, "Schooltime Chronicle". His only hit for major label Polydor, it peaked at no.59 this week in 1986. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

Formed in Nottingham in 1978, Fatal Charm released seven singles between 1978 and 1987; perhaps the best known is "Summer Spies" which Anne Nightingale championed in 1984. This single, "Images of Fire", was no.16 on the indie chart this week in 1986. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

From Half Man Half Biscuit's third Peel Session, broadcast for the first time 40 years ago today, this is the now historically inaccurate "Rod Hull Is Alive - Why?" #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio #KeepingItPeel

New at 64 and sinfully peaking at 57, "Diamond Girl" was the follow-up to "Sinful!" which was the only solo top 40 hit for Pete Wylie, formerly of Wah! who also had top 40 hits with "The Story of the Blues" and "Come Back" earlier in the decade. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

New at 76, "Long White Car" was the fifth and final hit single from Hipsway's debut album "Hipsway". Only "The Honeythief" reached the top 40; this one peaked at 55. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

shout out for Rob Jones #OffTheChart Elvis Costello

The lead single from "Blood & Chocolate", Elvis Costello's second album of 1986 and his last album with the Attractions for eight years, "Tokyo Storm Warning" only reached no.73 in the chart. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

"That Was Your Mother" from Paul Simon's "Graceland", the highest new entry on the UK album chart this week in 1986. The album spent 8 weeks at no.1 and a total of 163 weeks in the top 100; it went 9xPlatinum in the UK and sold over 14 million copies worldwide. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio

birthday shout out for Rob Jones, David Harrison and @darker-horse.bsky.social #OffTheChart

This version of "Runaway" was the only solo hit for Luis Cardenas, drummer with the rock band Renegade, who apparently held the Guinness World Record for having the world's largest drumkit, which ran to 114 pieces. Didn't do him much good as the single peaked at 78. #OffTheChart #NoiseboxRadio