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Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
Random Access Memories is an album by Daft Punk, released in 2013. 6 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 63 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Get Lucky”, on 36 lists and voted number one twice.
Random Access Memories, the fourth and final Daft Punk album, arrived on Columbia in May 2013, and it's the sound of two robots deciding they'd rather hire a band. After the stripped-down Human After All, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo spent 2008 to 2012 moving between Henson, Conway and Capitol in California, Electric Lady in New York and Gang in Paris, with Chris Caswell helping round up session players to do by hand what samplers used to do. The machines were kept to drum machines, a custom modular synth and vintage vocoders.
The result is a lavish, sun-drenched love letter to late-'70s and early-'80s Los Angeles, stitching disco, prog and pop together with a guest list to match: Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams on "Get Lucky", plus Giorgio Moroder, Julian Casablancas, Paul Williams, Panda Bear and Todd Edwards. It gave the duo their only number one on the Billboard 200 and took five Grammys in 2014, Album of the Year among them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Random Access Memories on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get Lucky | 36 | #1 | 2 | 2013–2026 | |
| 2 | Lose Yourself To Dance | 8 | #16 | – | 2013–2025 | |
| 3 | Doin' It Right | 7 | #8 | – | 2013–2025 | |
| 4 | Instant Crush | 8 | #2 | – | 2013–2025 | |
| 5 | Fragments Of Time | 3 | #65 | – | 2013–2024 | |
| 6 | Give Life Back to Music | 1 | #307 | – | 2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.