On This Day in Billboard Dance History: Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers Got Lucky

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Daft Punk's helmets would surely be blasted into the side of a mountain. But in fact, the robot icons have only have a single No.

1 song to their name.In the spring of 2013, the anticipation around Daft Punk's forthcoming LP was kinetic. It had been eight years since the duo's last studio album, Human After All -- a noisy, industrial electro banger that extended the game-changing aural aesthetic of their prior two LPs, 1997's Homework and 2001's Discovery.It had also been seven years since Daft Punk's seminal 2006 Coachella performance, which is still cited as one of the best shows in the 20-year history of the festival and is considered a gateway moment for the burgeoning rise of dance music in the United States.So by 2013, dance fans were.