Top 10 daft punk songs series#

The duo also created a bespoke website where fans with a – then innovative ‘Daft Card’ could access exclusive mixes, the best of which were compiled on the compilation Daft Club later that year. All rights reserved.ĭiscovery also made them stars on both sides of the Atlantic with tracks such as Digital Love (their fifth biggest selling single) and Harder Better Faster Stronger (their fourth biggest seller). They also scored their biggest hit so far with One More Time, reaching Number 2 in 2000 and selling over 300,000 copies.

It has sold over 674,000 copies to date.īy the time they released their second album – 2001’s Discovery – the duo had transformed into their ‘robot’ alter ego, and their sound had taken on a slicker disco sheen. The most popular of these however was Stardust’s (aka Bangalter and singer Benjamin Diamond) Music Sounds Better With You, which became a massive hit across Europe in Summer 1998, reaching Number 2 here.

Top 10 daft punk songs series#

It is widely considered to be one of the most influential albums of the period.ĭuring this time, Bangalter released a series of 12”s on his own Roulé label (French for ‘rolled’), by acts such as Together, Romanthony, Roy Davis Jr and Alan Braxe. The duo’s debut album Homework followed, blending techno, acid and house. They had disco nous and the pedigree to back it up as, in the late 1970s, Bangalter’s father, Daniel Vangarde, wrote massive hits for The Gibson Brothers ( Cuba), Ottawan ( D.I.S.C.O.) and Sheila B Devotion.ĭaft Punk first hit the Official Singles Chart properly in 1997 with the release of singles Da Funk/Musique (their fifth biggest selling single to date), Around The World (their second biggest track). After a less than flattering review of a show they played supporting Stereolab, where British music mag Melody Maker claimed Darlin’ played “a daft punky thrash”, inspired, the duo set about changing their name and style and were soon releasing tracks for influential dance label Soma Records. With Get Lucky at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart this weekend, we look back at Daft Punk’s chart life, and reveal their biggest selling singles.įormed in 1993, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter originally started life as an outfit called Darlin’ (also featuring Phoenix’ Laurent Brancowitz), and released a couple of tracks on Stereolab’s label Duophonic.