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Cover of Homework by Daft Punk
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“Da Funk” by Daft Punk

From the album Homework (1997)

“Da Funk” by Daft Punk appears on 24 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1997 and 2023. It was first released in 1997 on the album Homework. Its best result is #10 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #77 alternative song of 1997, #1,936 alternative song of all time and #467 of the '90s.

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11stations
#10best position
0#1 finishes
1top 10 finishes
1997–2023years charted

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"Da Funk" first surfaced as a 12-inch on Soma and Virgin in May 1995, pressed in a run of just 2,000 copies that barely anyone noticed, before the French duo Daft Punk slotted it onto their debut album Homework in 1997. That year it sold 30,000. It's an instrumental, and it doesn't need words: Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo wrote and produced it after a steady diet of American G-funk, aiming for something with the menace of gangsta rap and the cold snap of electro.

The bassline is a Roland TB-303 growling like a tomcat, the riff was nearly a siren before they swapped it out, and Bangalter has said the melody tips its hat to Giorgio Moroder. Spike Jonze directed the video, and song and clip are now counted among the house classics of the 1990s.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1997 38 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 107
1997 10 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 105
1997 76 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1997 101
1997 27 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1997 99
1997 98 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 100
1998 78 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 286 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 266 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 222 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 707 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
2006 152 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2006 184 Live 105 Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2007 165 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2007 1899 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 311 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) 500
2008 1814 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 244 Live 105 Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) 500
2009 1750 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1664 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1728 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1774 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1800 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 499 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2023 338 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893

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