Artist · chart history
Flight of the Conchords
Band Wellington New Zealand Formed 1998
Flight of the Conchords formed in 1998 in Wellington, New Zealand. Flight of the Conchords has 12 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2019. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Business Time”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Flight of the Conchords most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Flight of the Conchords, the Wellington duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, have been deadpanning their way through pop music since 1998. Both play a pile of instruments, and the joke is that they take every style seriously: folk ballads, funk, new wave, hip-hop, all played straight and sung with a completely straight face about the dopiest things imaginable.
They started as a live comedy act, earned a Perrier Comedy Award nomination at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2003, and landed a BBC radio series in 2005 before HBO gave them their own TV show from 2007 to 2009. The Distant Future EP of 2007 on Sub Pop was the first taste on record, and "Business Time" is its triumph, a slinky slow jam played entirely for laughs. "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)" is from the same disc.
The self-titled album of 2008 had "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros", a mock rap battle between two very gentle men, and I Told You I Was Freaky in 2009 brought "Hurt Feelings", "Carol Brown" and "Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)". They won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album, and in 2018 HBO aired their special Live in London, which Sub Pop also put out as an album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Flight of the Conchords on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Time | 5 | #19 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | Carol Brown | 2 | #21 | – | 2009 | |
| 3 | Hurt Feelings | 2 | #30 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) | 1 | #60 | – | 2008 | |
| 5 | Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros | 1 | #67 | – | 2008 | |
| 6 | Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor) | 1 | #86 | – | 2009 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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