US Chart Roundup: Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" Becomes Their First Top 10 Hit

Outside of the the sample on Kanye West's "Stronger," this marks the first week where Daft Punk are in the Top 10. "Get Lucky," a song that's already topped several countries' charts, has jumped up to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. It's a far sexier position than #61, which is where both "Around The World" and "One More Time" (the duo's only other Hot 100 entries to date) peaked.

Yes, it's a week for pop miracles, as even Mariah Carey manages to move into the Top 20 — albeit at #20 — with her Miguel pair-up "#Beautiful." Whistle-shriek that shit to the bank, Mimi.



Another one I wouldn't have predicted: now that The Great Gatsby is a box office hit, Lana Del Rey's "Young And Beautiful" flies up from #59 to #22. Like Daft Punk, Lana is now experiencing her first Top 40 hit, stateside.

On a final note, Capital Cities' "Safe And Sound," a single I've been championing forever, inches up to #90. Below is their latest video for the song. (This one has a nice budget.)



The U.S. Top 10:

1. "Can't Hold Us" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray *3 weeks*
2. "Just Give Me A Reason" - Pink feat. Nate Ruess
3. "Mirrors" - Justin Timberlake 
4. "When I Was Your Man" - Bruno Mars
5. "Stay" - Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko 
6. "Cruise" - Florida Georgia Line feat. Nelly
7. "Come & Get It" - Selena Gomez
8. "Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons
9. "I Love It" - Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX
10. "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams

Daft Punk's "Contact" Samples The Sherbs' "We Ride Tonight": Watch The Video For The Latter

"Contact," the closing track on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, is quite the epic space odyssey, thanks in part to a sample of astronaut Eugene Cernan describing what appears to be a UFO. The other sample the song contains is from "We Ride Tonight," a 1982 synth-rock single by Australian band The Sherbs (aka Sherbet aka some other name I can't be fucked to take the three seconds to look up right now.)

I stumbled upon the video for "We Ride Tonight" the other night and can't get over how cheeseball-fantastic it is. The first 40 seconds are basically Daft Punk in a nutshell.

I Interviewed Giorgio Moroder

I interviewed pop/dance god Giorgio Moroder, along with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, and Terri Nunn of Berlin, for an Idolator piece on Giorgio's 10 biggest music moments.

Go and check it out. But first, here's a leftover bit from Terri Nunn, about Giorgio being quite the ladies' man in his day:

"The guy was a full-on playboy. Man, he was a player. And the girls were lining up for this guy. Before he met [his wife] Francisca, he was like, how many girls can I date in a week? And that guy had them lined up. I can’t even tell you how many girls I saw that guy with. We stayed friends all this time, and I’d see him on and off throughout the years, and his life really changed, especially when he had his son, for the better. It’s fun to have the playboy years, but when you have the kind of love affair that happens when you have a kid, it’s a whole different world again. And he shifted 180 degrees when his son Alex was born. Then he was a family man and he was grounded.

"But when I first knew him, dude, that guy was like the quintessential Italian playboy, with the gold chains around his neck and the down-to-here unbuttoned shirt, and the girls. 'Oh, this is Wendy. This is Tifffany. This is Bridget. This is Wanda!'  It was just like parade! A bevy of beauties in and out of the guy’s house. I mean, good for him! He was a rock star and he played it. He enjoyed it to the hilt."

Giorgio Moroder Premieres New Song "Racer"

Yesterday Google announced it's Chrome game Racer, which comes accompanied by a brand new Giorgio Moroder composition of the same name. Personally, I'm less interested in watching computer graphics straight out of 1981 race across my phone than I am in hearing a new Moroder track.

Here's the demo for the Racer game:



Giorgio Moroder's full song "Racer":

US Chart Roundup: Avril Lavigne, Mariah Carey & Lana Del Rey Actually Have Hits!

Selena Gomez lands her first Top 10 hit on the Hot 100 with "Come & Get It," which climbs eight positions to #6 this week. That's a legitimate scandal in my book, since "Come & Get It" is vastly inferior to Gomez's superb 2010 single "Naturally," which peaked at #29 but really should have at least made it into the Top 10. I feel like Miley must have spiked the chart that month. The bitch.

Elsewhere, Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" jumps back up to #15, and Mariah Carey and Miguel's "#Beautiful" debuts at #24, giving Mimi her first Top 40 single in four years — the last being "Obsessed," which reached #7 in summer 2009. This comes on the heels of "Triumflop (Get 'Em)" and "Almost Home," both of which flopped harder than a pair of tits at a Pride parade and failed to chart.

Below that, Emeli Sande's "Next To Me" is up to #26 while Avril Lavigne's "Here's To Never Growing Up" catapult's up 30 positions to #30. Meanwhile, "Young And Beautiful" from The Great Gatsby is shaping up to be Lana Del Rey's first legitimate hit in the US. The Rick Nowels-produced track is up to #59, but should find its way into the Top 40 on next week's chart, as the song has been  Top 10 on iTunes since the movie opened last weekend.

Finally, America is drinking her Pepsi Cola pussy.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "Can't Hold Us" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray *2 weeks*
2. "Just Give Me A Reason" - Pink feat. Nate Ruess
3. "Mirrors" - Justin Timberlake 
4. "When I Was Your Man" - Bruno Mars
5. "Stay" - Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko 
6. "Come & Get It" - Selena Gomez
7. "Thrift Shop" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz
8. "Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons
9. "I Love It" - Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX
10. "Cruise" - Florida Georgia Line feat. Nelly

Daft Punk x Giorgio Moroder In The June Issue Of 'Dazed & Confused'

Pics by Hedi Slimane. Good shit.

My Little Boots Interview: Watch

Last week I interviewed Little Boots at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg in New York for Idolator, and you can watch the bulk of our chat about her new album Nocturnes below.

It's Mariah Carey & Miguel's "#Beautiful" Video

Mariah Carey arches her back, straddles a hog, rubs her ass, sticks her tits out and flashes her panties in the video for her Miguel duet "#Beautiful." Not much else you need to know here.

The Saturdays' "Gentleman" Vs. The Wanted's "Walks Like Rihanna"

After Chasing The Saturdays aired on the E! channel here in the States and failed to help the British hooker troupe crack the US market, the network will once again trying its pop luck with The Wanted Life in the fall. Yay for sausage?

At any rate, both The Saturdays and The Wanted have new singles out, which I've managed to somehow avoid until now. It's not surprising — I've been busier than Farrah Abraham in a Van Nuys Motel 6 (though, not in that way — if only). So I finally decided to have a listen.

First up is "Gentleman."



It's not quite the PSY cover I was clamoring for, and I'm not sure how to feel about these hoes rapping about Ryan Gosling, Weezy and George Clooney. Still, musically, the whole Janelle Monae/almost-neo-soul thing is a nice break from the generi-dance that's become The Saturdays' forte.

Next: "Walks Like Rihanna."



Woeful, desperate title for a song that's actually "okay." It's not awful. This is Dr. Luke, isn't it? At this point, he should really be dragged to a dark room and beaten until he comes up with a new sound.

Hate the game, playa. Hate the game.

UK Chart Roundup: The Music-Buying People Of England Have Been So Good To Chris Malinchak

Chris Malinchak's chill slow burner "So Good To Me" debuts at #2 on the UK chart this week, proving to not quite be a match for Daft Punk's unstoppable "Get Lucky," now in its third week at #1. Still, the New York DJ/producer can be happy about the fact that, if he had to be held off the top position on the chart, at least it was by Daft Punk.



Elsewhere, Gabriella Aplin's third single "Panic Cord," from debut album English Rain, goes in at #19. It's a bit singer-songwritery/jangly/girl-with-a-guitar-y for my taste (and apparently the British public's tastes, as well), but, hey — knock yourself out, baby.



The UK Top 10:

1. "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk *3 weeks*
2. "So Good To Me" - Chris Malinchak *new*
3. "Let Her Go" - Passenger
4. "Waiting All Night" - Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre
5. "Can't Hold Us" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
6. "This Is What It Feels Like" - Armin Van Buuren *new*
7. "Play Hard" - David Guetta feat. Ne-Yo & Akon
8. "I Need Your Love" - Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding
9. "#thatPower" - will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber
10. "Just Give Me A Reason" - Pink feat. Nate Ruess