Artist · chart history
The Comet Is Coming
Band London United Kingdom Active 2013–2023
The Comet Is Coming formed in 2013 in London, United Kingdom and was active until 2023. The Comet Is Coming has 4 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2019–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “CODE”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #47. The station that charted The Comet Is Coming most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2022.
The Comet Is Coming blasted off in London in 2013, a three-headed beast of Shabaka Hutchings, Danalogue and Betamax that treated jazz as a launch pad rather than a museum. They fused it with electronica, funk and psychedelic rock into something that felt closer to a rave in deep space than a smoky club: nu jazz with the throttle wide open.
They started on The Leaf Label, issuing the Prophecy EP on limited-edition 12-inch vinyl in November 2015, and the full-length Channel the Spirits followed in April 2016, picking up a Mercury Prize nomination that year. In 2018 they signed with Impulse!, and Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery arrived in 2019, with "Summon the Fire" breaking out onto rock radio countdowns, a rare feat for a band with this much jazz in its bloodstream.
The ride ended in 2023, but for a decade The Comet Is Coming made jazz sound like a punk band with a synthesizer habit and a telescope.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Comet Is Coming on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CODE | 2 | #47 | – | 2022 | |
| 2 | Summon The Fire | 2 | #84 | – | 2019 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 380 | Summon The Fire | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now |
| 2023 | 136 | CODE | KALX 200 Most Played New Songs in 2023 |
| 2022 | 47 | CODE | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2022 |
| 2019 | 84 | Summon The Fire | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019 |
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