Get Lucky is a song written and performed by French electronic music duo Daft Punk featuring American singer Pharrell Williams and American guitarist Nile Rodgers.
Daft Punk released Get Lucky as the lead single from their fourth and final studio album, Random Access Memories, on 19 April 2013. Before its release as a single, Get Lucky was featured in television advertisements broadcast during Saturday Night Live, after which Rodgers and Williams announced their involvement in the track. Get Lucky is a house-inspired disco, funk, and pop track with lyrics that, according to Williams, are about the good fortune of connecting with someone, as well as sexual chemistry. Get Lucky has since received acclaim from critics, with a number of them praising Williams's vocals and Rodgers's guitar riffs. The song reached number one in several countries, including Daft Punk's native France, where the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) certified it diamond. Get Lucky peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, giving Daft Punk their first top-10 hit in the USA. In the UK, the single topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks and was the second best-selling single of 2013 with over a million copies sold. The song won multiple awards, including Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Daft Punk performed it on many television programmes and awards shows, including the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, during which Stevie Wonder joined Rodgers, Williams and Daft Punk onstage to perform the song. Daft Punk first met American guitarist Nile Rodgers at a listening party in New York City and became friends thereafter. However, Rodgers noted that a series of near misses and scheduling conflicts had delayed their chance of collaborating. The duo eventually invited him to the Random Access Memories sessions at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. American singer Pharrell Williams was interested in working with Daft Punk; he had first heard about the project from Daft Punk at one of Madonna's parties and offered his services for a collaboration. He had joked that, "If you just want me to play tambourine, I'll do it." The duo and Williams later met in Paris, where he shared some of his own material; Williams explained that he had been inspired by Rodgers without knowing that Daft Punk had coincidentally been recording with him. As a member of The Neptunes production team, Williams had previously provided a remix of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that appeared on the 2003 album Daft Club. Daft Punk also served as co-writers and producers for the 2010 single Hypnotize U by N.E.R.D., Williams's band. Get Lucky received universal acclaim. Michael Cragg from The Guardian said the song "eschews the crunching electronics of their last album and the vocoder-lead of future-disco of Discovery", and it was the "best thing Pharrell Williams has been involved with for a long time”. Abby Johnston for The Austin Chronicle thought the track "refuses to tire, propelled forward by a sparkling Seventies guitar riff and Williams' falsetto”. Get Lucky was nominated for Best Song of the Summer at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and Best Song at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards. The song was nominated for Top Streaming Song (Audio) and Top Dance/Electronic Song at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. It was also ranked by Rolling Stone and The Guardian as the best track of 2013. The song broke records with the highest number of plays of any song in a single day on Spotify. Get Lucky peaked at number one on singles charts across the globe.
