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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by dsjoerg on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:32PM (#5996384)
The text following your quote substantiates their claim, you should respond to it: "their biggest previous single, 2000’s One More Time, peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard chart in the U.S., and they had limited Internet presence and no live performances in 2013"

I know and love Daft Punk as well, but by these and other commercial objective measures they are obscure. Daft Punk are famous in some circles, and unknown in others. In particular, Get Lucky has achieved chart success previously unknown to Daft Punk, which is interesting and makes one wonder how they broke through this time and not before.

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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by brandall10 on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:47PM (#5996450)
Operative word being 'were'. I lived through Discovery coming out in the club world back then. What's happened since has been a slow yet steady growth in their popularity/mythology. My parents know who they are now.

There was a pretty nice fervor surrounding their involvement in the Tron soundtrack as it was their first new work in 5 years. It went gold and peaked at number 4 in the billboard charts - not the dance charts, not soundtrack, the billboard 200. And that was just a soundtrack.

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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by ddw on Friday July 05, 2013 @04:16PM (#5996568)
+1. Kanye West sampling them on a single a while ago helped a lot too to introduce them to millions of people. If anything their success proves that easy access to new music helps the cream rise to the top.
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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by maxhowell on Friday July 05, 2013 @05:04PM (#5996746)
The US is way more into dance music now than they were 10 or 20 years ago when Europe etc. were quite into it. Daft Punk are predominantly known for dance music, so this album got more interest from US music publications etc. Of course, this album is the least “dancey” they’ve made, and heh, no doubt that helped!
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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by icki on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:59PM (#5996501)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stronger_(Kanye_West_song)

Stronger was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 - it features a Daft Punk sample; they were even in the single's music video.

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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by Argorak on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:00PM (#5996941)
Billboard 61 isn't exactly "obscure" either. Also, they had one album in the Top 50, which is very good for an act in that genre of music.

They may not be the hottest act globally, but they are a well established band that transcended its own subculture.

"second rank" might be more fitting.

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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by rhizome on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:34PM (#5996389)
how they broke through this time and not before.

By changing their sound and style.

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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by sliverstorm on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:50PM (#5996459)
He wasn't asking. It's a rhetorical question that explains why this article was written.
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