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

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

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

birthday shout outs for @nb1972.bsky.social and @neilsmiles.com #OffTheChart

shout out for Debbie Turner #OffTheChart Kissing The Pink

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#OffTheChart SOTN Top Fifteen
Act
Cabaret Voltaire
Black
New Model Army
Hue & Cry
Mick Jagger
Madonna
Cliff Richard
Helicopters
Def Leppard
Primal Scream
Los Lobos
Napalm Death
Bruce Willis
Carmel

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

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

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