Entertainment The Daft Punk phenomenon: "They already have several billion streams on Spotify"

Daft Punk 's disco hit " Get Lucky " has now been streamed over 100 million times on Spotify , NME reports. The single is already the most popular song in Spotify history and at the time of writing (August 22) it has racked up a massive 104,768,829 plays on the streaming service. Meanwhile, the official audio of "Get Lucky" on YouTube has also been streamed over 100 milion times, currently registering a play count of 111,781,151. On June 28, the song became the first single released in 2013 to sell a million copies in the UK, taking just 69 days to cross the 1m mark. www.ultimate-guitar.com

Less than three years ago, Drake’s “One Dance” made history by becoming the first song on Spotify to be played on billion times. At the time, that success was a huge moment, as it showed how big singles could become on the growing platform. Now, less than two and a half years after the first single saw Over the next year or so, many popular cuts will also become billion - streamers , and it won’t be long before there are 50 songs in this group. In fact, with one song already claiming two billion streams on Spotify alone (Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”), the next major milestone will be to see several tracks www.forbes.com

Daft Punk announced their retirement on Monday by way of an eight-minute video called "Epilogue," which according to Pitchfork was excerpted from Electroma, their 2006 film. In it, the "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" duo slowly walk into the desert in total silence before one of them blows up and the Mark Carney, former head of the UK and Canadian central banks, has joined the board of U.S. digital payments company Stripe Inc, days after the company was reported to be planning a primary funding round valuing it at over $100 billion . "Regulated in multiple jurisdictions and partnering with several finance.yahoo.com

The announcement came during Spotify ’s Stream On event on Monday (Feb 22), which highlighted the platform’s impact on the music industry over the past 15 years, and featured a slew of new product announcements. CEO Daniel Ek was joined by chief content officer and advertising business officer Dawn Ostroff and co-heads of music Jeremy Erlich and Marian Dicus at the "We’ll be expanding Spotify ’s global footprint significantly," Ek said. "This move will make Spotify available to more than a billion people in new markets around the world, with nearly half of them already using the internet."

Daft Punk formed in 1993 and are responsible for several of the most popular dance songs of all time. They ’re known for the helmeted robot outfits that defined their visual identity, and first rose to prominence with the release of 1997’s Homework. The 2001 follow-up, Discovery, produced massive hits like “One More Time” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” with subsequent albums like 2005’s Human After All, 2013’s Random Access Memory and the 2010 Tron: Legacy soundtrack further cementing their legacy. Catch up on all the lyrics to Daft Punk ’s biggest hits on Genius now.

Spotify 's music streaming rivals are due to release their end-of-year statistics in the coming week; and the Official Charts will reveal the UK's biggest songs of 2020 at the end of the year. With the UK's resistance to foreign language pop still firmly entrenched, Bad Bunny doesn't feature in the country's list of most- streamed artists - but in the rest of the world, he's a phenomenon . His music was streamed 8.3 billion times by Spotify 's 320 million users this year.

Daft Punk have broken Spotify streaming records with their new single Get Lucky. The first new single from the French duo in eight years, Get Lucky had the biggest first day of streams globally since the service began. In the UK and US, Get Lucky was streamed more times than any other track had However, the exact figures of what the record-breaking stream total is are still unknown. The disco track, which features Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, comes after an intense promotion campaign for their forthcoming album Random Access Memories, which included teaser riffs and even an

Daft Punk continues to “Get Lucky.” The robot-headed electric-funk duo, hours after winning four Grammys, saw the number of streams of their hit song on Spotify soar more than 200 percent in the 24 hours ended Monday. It was the highest increase of any artist who performed during the Sunday-night The French group won Grammy Awards for best album and best song of the year for “Random Access Memories,” and “Get Lucky,” respectively. Perhaps reflecting songs that are infrequently selected, Spotify also reported a huge uptick in streams for Chicago’s “Does Anybody Really Know