Off the Wall is American singer Michael Jackson's fifth solo album. Released in August of 1979, the album is often hailed as his breakthrough effort and was a major success for the Jacksons frontman, despite critics who said Jackson's career had peaked after the early seventies when he was recording for Motown. Although the album never went beyond #3 on the Billboard 200 album chart, it became his fourth best-selling album in America, with 7 million copies sold. For a while, Off the Wall was the best-selling album of Jackson's recording career, with sales of 20 million copies worldwide until the release of Thriller. In 2008, the Off the Wall album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Quincy Jones, the musical director for Motown's film adaptation of The Wiz (in which Jackson starred as the Scarecrow), served as the album's producer, with lyrics and music by Jackson, Heatwave's Rod Temperton, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney, among others.