The Chart Show (also known as the ITV Chart Show) was an hour-long music video programme which ran in the UK on Channel 4 between 1986 and 1988, then on ITV between 1989 and 1998. The production company was Video Visuals, and (when shown on ITV) was credited as "A Yorkshire Television Presentation" from 1993-98 (prior to this, no ITV Franchisee's logo was shown at the end).

When it started, the show was unique in that it had no presenters; computer-generated displays took their place. The "pop-up" information snippets were represented as "windows" in a mock-up graphical user interface called HUD, which also featured a "mouse-pointer" and "icons" generated on an Amiga computer. Although commonplace nowadays, such interfaces were relatively cutting-edge at the time. Graphics mimicking those of a video recorder in operation were also used.

The show was considered quite important when it first launched, being one of the few outlets for music videos on British television, in the days before the widespread takeup of satellite and cable television, and channels such as MTV Europe. Many music videos got their UK Television premieres during The Chart Show.

Shortly after launching, The Chart Show found itself being taken off air during a dispute with the Musicians' Union over the showing of music videos on ITV & Channel 4 which lasted throughout the summer of 1986. During this time, a show called Rewind, made by the same production team, was aired. This consisted of performances from other music shows. The dispute was resolved by the end of the summer, and The Chart Show returned at the end of August.

On Channel 4, the show ran on Friday nights, mainly filling gaps between series of The Tube. After moving to ITV it ran on Saturday mornings and also had a late night repeat in some ITV regions, though the day and time of this varied over time and between regions. The show became regular after the axing of The Tube in 1987, with five editions in July of that year going out as 60 minute long "Summer Specials" - the last regular edition to air on Channel 4 was on September 30 1988. The final episode on Channel 4 was a Review of 1988 special on January 2 1989; the first edition on ITV aired 5 days later. The show was renamed "The ITV Chart Show" that September after ITV launched its new corporate identity. The name reverted to The Chart Show in 1994.

Earlier Channel 4 editions were 45 minutes long, and later ones were 60 minutes, but were split into two 30 minute segments before moving to the 60 minute format in 1988. However, some later editions were shortened due to ITV buying rights to Formula 1 motor racing in 1997.

The last edition was shown on 22 August 1998, after being axed in favour of a live, performance based show, , which began the following week.

The first (and also the last) video to be shown was "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer. On the final show, this was broadcast with the original graphics, albeit taken from the 4th episode, rather than the first, as revealed by the date shown in the H.U.D.

In the show's later days, the programme was broadcast "live", with all the elements of the show programmed into a computer and laid back to tape, the song title graphics and info banners being added live as the show was broadcast. This fact was played up over the first few months of the show being made this way, with a "Live" graphic appearing at the beginning of each part, in addition to the interactive Battle of the Bands segment. Both of these were dropped after a minor revamp in 1997, although live phone-in competitions continued to appear occasionally until the end of the show's run.

For two weeks in January 2003, The Chart Show returned to Channel 4 in 30 minute segments in the morning, although these followed a different format, with a voiceover and absent of the faux-VCR graphics that the show was well known for.

Repeat editions were being shown on The Vault between December 2006 and June 2007 but were removed due to low viewing figures. Only episodes from 1991-92 and 1996-98 were shown due to other episodes being stored on video formats which they no longer had the ability to play. There were plans for these to be converted, but ultimately never happened due to the low viewing figures which lead to the repeats being axed.