Song · Stardust
“Music Sounds Better With You” by Stardust
Released 1998
“Music Sounds Better With You” by Stardust appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1998. It was first released in 1998. Its best result is #73 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #351 alternative song of 1998.
Stardust made exactly one record, and "Music Sounds Better with You" was it. The French house trio of Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter, DJ Alan Braxe and singer Benjamin Diamond came together for a show at the Rex Club in Paris, and their 1998 track rides a guitar riff sampled from Chaka Khan's 1981 song "Fate". It came out first on Bangalter's own Roulé label, then more widely on Virgin, with a video by Michel Gondry.
It filtered into charts everywhere: number one in Greece and Spain, number two in the UK, where it finished as the 11th best-selling single of 1998, and two weeks at the top of Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. Worldwide sales had passed two million by 2018. Stardust played once more, at a festival in France, then split, and Bangalter turned down $3 million from Virgin to make an album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 73 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998 | 100 |
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