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Daft Punk get lucky and join million-selling club Daft Punk's Get Lucky becomes first million-seller released in 2013
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Get Lucky by Daft Punk, the biggest-selling single of the year, has now joined a select group of songs to sell more than 1m copies in the UK. The track has also become the first song featuring Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers to break the seven-figure barrier, according to figures from the Official Chart Company. A little more than two months after its release, Daft Punk's Get Lucky has become the first single released in 2013 to chalk up a million sales in the UK. Although nine other singles have sold at least a million copies this year, none was also released this year. It is now the biggest-selling single of 2013 so far.
French duo Daft Punk are only the second French act to ever achieve a million-selling single in the UK, and the achievement comes only a few weeks after EDM artist David Guetta was first, with the song Titanium. Get Lucky managed the feat in only 69 days, while Titanium took 79 weeks. Get Lucky has provided Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers – who collaborated with Daft Punk – with the biggest UK hit of his career. "The fact that Get Lucky has sold a million copies in the UK is one thing, but to do it in 69 days?! I'm awestruck," Rodgers said. "When I think how it happened, too, with people who I like a lot, that we just decided to go into the studio and do something. And then it turns out like this? It's absolutely remarkable, because no one was prepared for this.
"The fact that Get Lucky has sold a million copies in the UK is one thing, but to do it in 69 days?! I'm awestruck," Rodgers told OfficialCharts.com. "To have this ubiquitous record, that is a hit everywhere, it's amazing to me." "I've had big records and number ones; I've had records that were No 1 in the US but nowhere else. I've had records which have done well [in the UK], but not in the States. But to have this ubiquitous record, that is a hit everywhere – it's amazing to me! I'm out on the road and I can hear it wherever I go. I'm flabbergasted!"
Only 136 singles have managed to sell in excess of 1m in the 60 years since the UK charts were established. The number of tracks to do so has increased in recent years thanks to the rise of downloads, which means tracks are almost always available. In the past it was only possible to buy singles if the demand was there to press huge numbers of discs. Martin Talbot, the chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said: "The last time a single took less than three months to hit a million was James Arthur's Impossible, who had the profile and impact of The X Factor behind him." Reading on mobile? Watch here
Older tracks which have tipped over the million mark this year have included Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee (first released in 1976), Mysterious Girl by Peter Andre (1995) and Whole Again by Atomic Kitten (2001). Among the many records broken by Get Lucky is one that may become a pub quiz puzzler in years to come – it is the fastest UK million-seller by a French act, breaking the 79-week record previously held by David Guetta's Titanium, which had been the only French record to sell a million this side of the Channel.
Get Lucky is the 136th single to sell a million copies in the UK, following in the footsteps of hits such as Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee (originally released in 1976), Mysterious Girl by Peter Andre (1995), Whole Again by Atomic Kitten (2001), Use Somebody by Kings of Leon (2008), The A Team by Ed Sheeran (2011), We Are Young by Fun (2011), Titanium by David Guetta (2011), Impossible by James Arthur (2012) and Gangnam Style by Psy (2012).
However, it remains some way off breaking the all-time record. Elton John's Something About the Way You Look Tonight/Candle in the Wind '97 has sold 4.91m copies.