“Get Lucky” is the first song on which Daft Punk are listed as the primary artist that has reached the milestone.
Two years after they parted ways, Daft Punk continue to cover new ground. The French duo’s 2013 hit single “Get Lucky” featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rogers has officially hit 1 billion streams on Spotify.
“Get Lucky” appeared 10 years ago on the French duo’s fourth and final studio album, Random Access Memories. Featuring collaborators like Giorgo Moroder and Julian Casablancas, the effort came out at the height of the commercial EDM boom. Its callbacks to the disco and funk at the heart of dance music’s nascent era foretold of the movement toward classic house sounds championed by acts like Disclosure and Claude VonStroke.
The milestone marks the first time a song on which Daft Punk are listed as the primary artist has garnered as many streams. The Weeknd‘s “Starboy” and “I Can Feel It Coming” — both of which featured Daft Punk — reached 1 billion streams in 2017 and 2020, respectively.
The sixth episode of Daft Punk’s recently launched Memory Tapes docuseries includes footage of the first time Williams heard the finished versions of “Get Lucky” and “Lose Yourself to Dance.” He can be heard calling it “one of the best birthdays” after momentarily being left speechless. The following year, Williams would release the pop hit “Happy,” which itself is his first track to amass 1 billion plays on Spotify.
Random Access Memories was something of a departure for Daft Punk, a project started by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo in 1993. The duo’s debut 1994 recording, “The New Wave,” could only be called techno, and by the time they released Homework in 1997, they had arrived at their distinctive, electro-tinged take on French house.
In typical fashion, neither Bangalter nor Homem-Christo have publicly commented on “Get Lucky” reaching 1 billion streams.
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