Daft Punk - the dance duo behind Get Lucky and One More Time - have split up after 28 years
Daft Punk have split up, the band's longtime publicist has confirmed.
The announcement from Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo was cryptically teased in a video uploaded to their YouTube channel, captioned with '1993-2021'. The news was then verified by their publicist Kathryn Frazier to Pitchfork.
Watch the video below - an excerpt from their 2006 film Electroma - in which Bangalter's robot alter-ego explodes in a desert, leaving Homem-Christo walking away from the blast into the horizon.
MORE: See all of Daft Punk's hit songs and albums and where they charted in the UK
Daft Punk are best-known for huge Official Singles Chart Top 10 hits such as Around The World, One More Time, plus collaborations with The Weeknd Starboy and I Feel It Coming.
The French producer duo's biggest single in the UK is 2013 Number 1 smash Get Lucky ft. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, which is BRIT Certified 3x Platinum and the 45th bestselling single in UK chart history with paid-for sales of 1.48 million.
Get Lucky is taken from their album Random Access Memories which won three GRAMMY Awards including Album of the Year. Random Access Memories reached Number 1 on the UK's Official Albums Chart and has sold over 500,000 copies in the UK.
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Alfred Lock
Au revoir boys..Thanks for the innovative musical dancefloor fillers..especially Get Lucky.
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Stu
Gutted! I bought 'Homework' back in 1997 off the strength of 'Da Funk'....what a totally bonkers album that was, unlike anything else. Loved 'Discovery' and 'Random Access Memories', too. Another great band ending on a high.
Simon Slator
They're at least going out on a high - full respect to them.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
this is bad!! daft punk were an amazing group. i’ll forever be listening to around the world, get lucky, harder better faster stronger, and many of their other hits.
Cameron
Brought us some great songs, wish them luck for the future
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WHAT???? NOOOOOO!!!
Great band, I’ll always love Random Access Memories their contribution to Yeezus, and pretty much everything else they’re ever done.
I hope we get a goodbye album, but I highly doubt it sadly. :(