Daft Punk Score Huge Debut For New Album
. Led by breakout single "Get Lucky" (currently at No. 10 on the Hot 100 chart), Random Access Memories rang up the second-biggest sales week of 2013 so far, only behind Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience. According to Billboard, Daft Punk's numbers even exceeded expectations, which were predicted to be closer to 300,000. It's a significant milestone for Daft Punk, with the first-week sales of RAM more than twice the number of copies the band's last studio album, 2005's Human After All, which has sold 125,000 copies total to date. While their soundtrack to Tron: Legacy peaked at No. 4, the band's highest charting original release was Discovery from 2001 at No. 44, which has sold 796,000 copies to date. This is what happens when a major label (Columbia) shells out the money to throw an old-school promo party behind an act that, 20 years into its career, has not lots its worldwide cool status. Coming in at No. 2 is maverick country artist Darius Rucker, whose fourth solo release, True Believers, moved more than 83,000 copies first week out. Rucker's previous album, 2010's Charleston, SC 1966, also debuted at No. 2. As Billboard points out, True Believers marks Rucker's third straight No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart. more on this story Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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