Daft Punk Hits #1 For Career-Best Debut And #2 For Digital-Sales Debut Album

Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" has taken the top spot in the Billboard 200 albums chart, Entertainment Weekly reports. Daft Punk also took the title for the second biggest debut week of the year, right behind Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience."

The anonymous French duo's debut album is also the second biggest for digital-sales, with 65% of Daft Punk's sales coming from digital downloads, according to Billboard. They also have this year's best sales in vinyl, reaching the 10,000 mark.

Daft Punk sold 339,000 copies with their fourth album, putting them at #1 in the Billboard charts, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

This marks Daft Punk's biggest chart week in its long history, Entertainment Weekly reports.

MTV says the album's first single, "Get Lucky" is also Daft Punk's top-charting single ever. It peaked at #10 with more than 350,000 downloads. One in five U.S. Spotify users listened to the whole album in its first week, and every track on "Random Access Memories" was streamed at least 500,000 times in the first week on Spotify in the United States, MTV reports.

Also on the debut charts was Darius Rucker's "True Believers" at #2, with 83,000 copies. The National came in behind it with their album "Trouble Will Find" with 75,000 copies. Rapper French Montana hit #4 with "Excuse My French," which moved 56,000 copies.

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