Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

sometimes love comes around

Haven't people been buying albums on the basis of an unrepresentative single since forever?

sure, but it's been awhile since the unrepresentative first single was accompanied by an aggressive street poster campaign lol. the success of promoting a big-budget album this way is like the old-school music industry dudes giving each other "YES! We've still got what it takes!" high-fives.

I'm really disappointed I missed this marketing campaign you guys are talking about. Sounds like it was fantastic.

you should come by neighborhood sometimes - three different kinds of posters (one for Get Lucky, one with the album cover, etc) absolutely plastered all over the place.

Over 90,000 copies in its second week! High-fives all around, just like the good old days!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/random-access-memories-sales-drop-daft-punk-album_n_3420552.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment

did anyone manage to get one of the flexi discs?

gonna go ahead and guess that those figures are still waaaaaaay bigger than anything they did before in the US. debuting at No. 1 is still a success on some level.

Wiki says that Homework, released in January 2007, sold 605,000 copies by September 2007. This record could surpass that, although I don't think it's going to blow that number out of the water.

Discovery has sold 792,000 copies to date but I don't know about first week or month or year sales.

Difference being that those kinds of numbers were nowhere near what it took to debut you at number 1 back then.

guys, this album will surpass cumulative sales of Daft Punk's previous albums in the U.S.

that's not looking likely

yeah IN THE US kinda key to what I was saying there Hurting. I don't care about Europe and teh Britishes (sorry chaps! good show wot wot) these guys were basically nobody in the US prior to the pyramid tour and then this album. the only people I know who were into them circa Discovery and Homework were dance music partisans and tech nerds (of which there are many in my locale but still)

It's shifted 494,000 in three weeks -- it sure will.

or are those US numbers I didn't look them up lol

xp

They put up posters for this one so that kinda makes sense it'll sell more.

i hear they'll sell one copy for every 5 posters they put up

It's shifted 494,000 in three weeks -- it sure will.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 14, 2013 5:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right, that's more than 160,000 copies a week. They're on pace to sell 8,320,000 records this year!

lose yourself to chance!

posters, billboards, TV ads - this was an old-school promo campaign, they've been pretty up-front about it. and it worked! It got a bunch of people to buy the album when it came out. I don't see what's contentious about this exactly.

daft punk: are they popular?

Shall we anticipate the FOURTH ALBUM by the EDM act "Daft Punk"? I think I may.

looks like the most recent US numbers for their back catalog are

Homework: 674k
Discovery: 805k
HAA: 127k
Alive 2007: 198k
Tron Legacy 590k

Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Oh shit Easter mass flashback

Such a bold question to ask someone in the 21st century

Equivalent to asking "are you a time traveler?"

I wonder if anyone on this thread actually bought the album

I bought the album my hyrulian friend

Love the progginess and easy listening nods and the winks at acid jazz. Panda bear one is after a few listens maybe the weakest but maybe I'll come around. Perfect album for driving the freeway at midnight en route to the airport to pick your lady up from a transcontinental flight.

I bought the album, I wanted to be a part of it all.

God I really fuckin hate this album now...can't believe I was duped by all the hype and a multi million dollar marketing campaign...what was I thinking?!!

...not weally...

*glances over the thread and shrugs*

...all I know is that 'Giorgio By Moroder' is one of my favourite tracks released so far this year.

Perfect album for driving the freeway at midnight en route to the airport to pick your lady up from a transcontinental flight.

mm yeah I'll have to try it

Bought it, but wishing I'd bought the Japanese version just because "Horizon" is a really great coda--should've at least been on the standard vinyl release, where surely there was room across two LPs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpWPrVsoqpc

http://mcmangos.bandcamp.com/album/gangnam-access-memories

i wouldn't recommend actually listening to this but

Only within the last week or two have I finally heard "Get Lucky" on the radio.

Really? Wow.

It was all over Italian radio when we were in Sardinia at the end of May, and feels like it's been on UK radio all the time.

jaymc did you hear it on B96? I heard it on there twice this weekend.

one time it was followed by "blurred lines" heh

Sonically "Get Lucky" doesn't fit into US Top 40 radio playlists as well as UK/Euro radio.

As someone with no experience of US playlists, why is this?

a particular kind of EDM rules.

I heard "Blurred Lines" on top 40 radio yesterday for the first time.

Yeah the closest company it currently has is Bruno Mars' Treasure and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines.

and maybe Suit and Tie.

"Why would anyone get lucky if they stayed up all night?" asked my daughter. "They should be singing 'we're up all night to get grouchy.'"

awww

jaymc did you hear it on B96? I heard it on there twice this weekend.

Yeah, I've now heard it on B96, KISS 103.5, and (lol) the Mix.