Daft Punk 'Random Access Memories' Album Slips to No. 2 on Billboard 200 Chart [VIDEO]
Daft Punk continues to have sales success in the U.S., with new album Random Access Memories approaching half a million copies sold.
The electronic duo spent two weeks atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 340,000 copies of Random Access Memories in its first week and 93,000 in its second week. The album slipped to No. 2 in its third week on the chart, according to a Billboard report on Wednesday.
Selling 62,000 copies in its third week, Random Access Memories has now sold 494,000 copies in the U.S., coming very close to approaching Gold certification. This would be Daft Punk's third gold album, after 1997's Homework and 2001's Discovery.
Rock group Queens of the Stone Age beat Daft Punk on this week's Billboard chart, selling 91,000 copies of . . . Like Clockwork. Another rock group, Sleeping with Sirens, came in at No. 3 on the chart and metal group Megadeth charted at No. 5. Blake Shelton's Based on a True Story rose to No. 4.
In other Daft Punk news, a French musician called PJ Nova posted a video on YouTube charting what the duo's Get Lucky would sound like through the past 10 decades.
The video, called Evolution of Get Lucky was shared throughout the Internet on Tuesday and already has over 700,000 views.
Listen to the innovative remix here:
Examples of sounds from the remix include jazz overtones for the 1920s-1940s decades, a disco groove for the 1970s decade and production-heavy dance beats for the 2000s and 2010s.
PJ Nova appears at the end of the video, telling viewers to make a video that "captures the spirit" of one particular decade, which he will then edit into a compilation video.
Get Lucky currently resides at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It is Daft Punk's highest charting single ever.
