“There was nothing like what I was doing-and they agreed, the music business.” “I thought I was ahead of my time,” Badu said of her debut offering for this great The New Yorker profile published April 2016. 2 on the Billboard 200 and won best R&B album at the 40th Grammy Awards, where single "On & On" claimed best female R&B vocal performance. As relayed in Billboard's 2017 oral history of the album, Baduizm moved 159,000 copies within its first week and had sold 2.8 million copies up until its 20th anniversary. Daft Punk won their first of six Grammys with Alive 2007 (best electronic/dance album) and "Harder Better Faster Stronger" (best dance recording) at the 51st Grammys.Įrykah Badu began etching her legacy in soul lore with the February 1997 release of her debut album, Baduizm. "Around the World" and "Da Funk" were each nominated for best dance recording at the 41st Grammy Awards and 40th Grammy Awards, respectively. 61 on the Hot 100, but it wasn't until "Get Lucky" featuring Pharrell Williams (2013) and The Weeknd's "Starboy" featuring Daft Punk (2016) that seemingly every ear in existence had been influenced by them to some degree. Homework tracks "Around the World" and "Da Funk" resonated internationally, with "Around the World" clocking in at No. 150 on the Billboard 200, and it would take until 2013 for Random Access Memories to top the chart.
It feels particularly wistful to recall Daft Punk's 1997 debut album Homework because the enigmatic French electronic duo, comprised of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, confirmed their breakup in February 2021 after 28 years as musical partners.ĭaft Punk was a poignantly slow burn, as Homework only peaked at No. ( "Stand by Me," the album's second single, reached No.
singles charts, according to Official Charts, which also pointed out the song as that year's fifth-best-selling single. 2 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum, while lead single "D'You Know What I Mean?" sold "over 370,000 copies in its first week" and "gave Oasis its first pair of consecutive No. ("Wonderwall" was also nominated for a Grammy.) So, needless to say, the stakes were high for Be Here Now.
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The British rock group, centered around (and torn apart by) at-odds brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, were fresh off of the commercial and global success of 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, which housed "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back in Anger"-both cracked the Billboard Hot 100 at No. Between the fame-induced, cocaine-fueled antics of 1996 and the Celebrity Deathmatch of '98 (h/t Rolling Stone) was Oasis' '97 album Be Here Now.
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