Robots Rejoice! Daft Punk Earn First No. 1 Album
It's been 15 years coming, but Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo—aka Daft Punk—finally have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.
The electronic duo's Random Access Memories ruled the U.S. albums chart with 339,000 copies sold. It's the second-biggest first-week sales after Justin Timberlake's mammoth first week for The 20/20 Experience.
The album also broke a Spotify record for most-streamed album in the first week of release, according to the service. Finals numbers haven't been revealed, but Spotify says the duo surpassed current record holders Mumford and Sons, who nabbed eight million streams in Babel's opening week.
Way to go, guys. After what felt like five million bazillion different teasers, it all paid off for that No. 1 record.
1h 41m
1m
20m
9m
21m
46m
1m
1m
30s
1m
1m
24m
1m
1m
1m
1m
1m
23m
1m
20m
1m
21m
21m
2m
56s
1m
1m
21m
20m
22m
47m
1m
1m
1m
42s
44s
1h 23m
44m
21m
1m
1m
55s
54s
1m
41s
1m
1m
5m
1m
3m
13m
14m
5m
5m
1m
2m
20m
1m
1m
22m
15m
20m
22m
21m
2m
1h 35m
44m
22m
21m
11m
12m
9m
13m
40m
21m
45m
2m
1h 11m
23m
20m
21m
20m
1h 21m
8m
20m
42m
20m
21m
20m
1m
19m
20m
2m
44m
10m
20m
1h 37m
20m
6m
21m