Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams) (6:09)

“Get Lucky” is a song by French house music duo Daft Punk, co-written by and featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. It is the lead single from Daft Punk’s fourth studio album Random Access Memories. Before its release as a single, “Get Lucky” was featured in television advertisements broadcast during Saturday Night Live, after which Rodgers and Pharrell announced their involvement in the track. Small excerpts also appear throughout the promotional video series The Collaborators.

Musically, “Get Lucky” is a disco and funk song while lyrically, according to Pharrell Williams, the song is about the fortune of finding chemistry with someone and not just about sexual chemistry. Following a leak days earlier, the single was released as a digital download on 19 April 2013. “Get Lucky” has since received acclaim from critics and was commercially successful, reaching the top ten in the music charts of over 28 countries.

“Get Lucky” was completed over the course of approximately 18 months. Daft Punk first met Nile Rodgers at a listening party in New York for the duo’s 1997 debut album Homework, and became friends thereafter. The duo acknowledged Chic’s influence in the song “Around the World” and had great respect for Rodgers. He noted however that a series of near misses and scheduling conflicts had delayed their chance of collaborating. The duo eventually invited Rodgers to the Random Access Memories sessions at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. This coincidentally was the studio where the first Chic single had been recorded, in the neighborhood in which Rodgers grew up.