Random Access Memories justifies hype by becoming UK's fastest-selling album of 2013, with 165,000 sales in first week
It's possible Daft Punk's low-key promotional campaign – capped off this weekend by their trip to Monaco to see a Lotus F1 car bedecked in their colours compete in the Monaco Grand Prix – has passed you by. Nevertheless, somehow enough people became aware of the release of Random Access Memories that the French duo's album entered the charts at No 1 yesterday, becoming their first UK chart-topper.
In the process, it became the fastest-selling album of 2013, notching up 165,000 sales in its first week. The year's previous fastest seller had been Michael Bublé's To Be Loved, which had 121,000 sales in its first week.
However, what the charts giveth, the charts taketh away. Even as Random Access Memories stormed the top spot in the albums chart, Daft Punk's single Get Lucky was being dislodged from a four-week stint at the top of the singles chart. Naughty Boy's La La La is the new No 1 – itself becoming the fastest-selling single of the year with 145,000 sales in its first week.
Daft Punk's colours proved to bring no luck at all to Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, who was forced to retire from the race after 63 laps of the city-centre circuit, following a collision with another car. In the non-Daft Punk-branded Lotus, Kimi Raikkonen finished 10th, securing one point in the drivers' championship.
by Guardian music via Music: Electronic music | guardian.co.uk
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