Daft Punk Sets Spotify Streaming Record

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Daft Punk Sets Spotify Streaming Record

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(AP) Daft Punk sets Spotify record with new album
NEW YORK
Daft Punk has set another record on Spotify.

The music service said Monday that the electronic duo's new album, "Random Access Memories," had the biggest number of streams in its first week in the United States. Spotify wouldn't release the number of streams, but Daft Punk beat the 8 million streams Mumford & Sons set with "Babel" last year.

"Random Access Memories" was released last week and is the fourth album from the Grammy-winning French group.

Daft Punk also set a Spotify record last month when its song "Get Lucky" had the biggest streaming day for a single track in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Since its debut, "Get Lucky" has been streamed more than 27 million times.

Spotify launched in 2008.

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Online:

Daft Punk: http://www.daftpunk.com/

Spotify: http://www.spotify.com/
 
-E- said:
You're kidding, right?!

Tron Legacy soundtrack. 90's electronica pioneers. And now Random Access Memories.

Go listen; you *should* like it! :)
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Tron Legacy was not on my go see list so I wouldn't have heard the soundtrack.
 
IMO the new album is great...DL'd off of HDTracks last week. And, I'm not even close to one you'd call an electronica fan. SQ is also very good.
 
joeinid said:
Daft Punk Sets Spotify Streaming Record

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(AP) Daft Punk sets Spotify record with new album
NEW YORK
Daft Punk has set another record on Spotify.

The music service said Monday that the electronic duo's new album, "Random Access Memories," had the biggest number of streams in its first week in the United States. Spotify wouldn't release the number of streams, but Daft Punk beat the 8 million streams Mumford & Sons set with "Babel" last year.

"Random Access Memories" was released last week and is the fourth album from the Grammy-winning French group.

Daft Punk also set a Spotify record last month when its song "Get Lucky" had the biggest streaming day for a single track in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Since its debut, "Get Lucky" has been streamed more than 27 million times.

Spotify launched in 2008.

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Online:

Daft Punk: Daft Punk

Spotify: http://www.spotify.com/
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WoW, just WoW! :disbelief: :exciting:
 
Never heard them either & after watching/hearing those two clips, wont be happening unless by accident. I did Devo!
 
[h=1]Daft Punk: In It… “Random Access Memories”[/h] Posted by Michael Mercer on Wednesday, May 15, 2013



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I remember being transfixed by Daft Punk’s video for “Homework” – the title track of their timeless electronic masterpiece. There were tiny robots dancing to “Around the World”, the simple chorus repeating over and over. It was hypnotizing, and I remember thinking we’re all robots in search for dollars, food, companionship, you know, the rat race. Never before had this concept been illustrated to me so succinctly. It burned in my memory. I feel like I’ve grown up with Daft Punk. So the correlation to RAM, or “random access memory” in their new album title blew my mind, like one of those cosmic hippy trips you read about. I thought to myself: There are millions that feel the same way I do about Daft Punk! This feeling of connectedness came over me (as opposed to the usual feeling of alienation); next thing you know I’m tapping my feet, bobbin’ my head to “Give Life Back to Music” – the opening track to Daft Punk’s modern disco homage to their hero Giorgio Moroder. Don’t get me wrong. This is not merely an electronic band spewing seventies music to sound cool. Nope, Daft Punk don’t play that way. This group knows how to honor the past by bringing it into the future. The music is the star of their show, not the band. They are the men in robot masks after all, and have been all along.
The timing for the release of Random Access Memories could not have been better. Temperatures are warming up, flowers beginning to bloom, and, most importantly, the big outdoor music festivals are coming into towns all over the world.
They sound like a seventies cover band from the future, but since they weren’t actually here in the seventies they only know how to play seventies music as a band from the future! What a way to welcome the world back to the thunderous groove of Daft Punk.
~ Michael Mercer

Artist: Daft Punk
Album: Random Access Memories
Official Website: HERE
YouTube Teaser: HERE
 
Thanks for posting this Joe. I like Daft Punk, though there are many other EDM and Electronic, minimal dub and ambient bands that I like way more. Always good to have some more perspectives on what bands are on about :) Went through the Devo and Kraftwerk eras and still enjoy some Kraftwerk on my system occasionally.
 
My pleasure tunes. I'm all over the place music-wise.
 
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