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“Put The Message In The Box” by World Party

From the album Goodbye Jumbo (1990)

“Put The Message In The Box” by World Party appears on 20 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1999 and 2025. It was first released in 1990 on the album Goodbye Jumbo. Its best result is #57 on The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,417 alternative song of all time.

20countdowns
6stations
#57best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1999–2025years charted

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"Put the Message in the Box" was the second single from Goodbye Jumbo, the 1990 album the Welsh-British band World Party released on Ensign, and it trailed "Way Down Now" onto Billboard's alternative chart, peaking at number eight. Karl Wallinger wrote the words and the music, and the album behind it took some getting out of him.

He'd sunk the advance from Chrysalis into a 24-track machine set up in rented premises, and over three years he piled up 62 reels of tape, around 70 hours of music, some of it note-for-note re-creations of Beatles and Beach Boys songs. Deadlines came and went until the record company suggested an engineer to hurry things along, and in came Jon Blaney, whose credits already included Lovesexy and a Keith Richards album.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 995 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 732 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 732 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 732 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 732 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1033 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 732 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 732 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1472 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1400 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1419 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1446 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1511 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2012 764 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2013 1569 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1628 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 837 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 57 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2023 550 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2025 326 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800

Also listed as: Put the Message in the box; Put the Message in the Box.

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