Daft Punk dominate UK Single and Album mid-week charts
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Daft Punk are on course to claim the fastest-selling album of 2013 in the UK so far, while Naughty Boy tops their entry on the singles chart.
The producer has teamed up with Sam Smith for 'La La La', which currently leads the singles chart update by 34,000 copies, forcing Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' down to two.
However, the Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers-assisted track has become the best-selling single of 2013 in the UK so far, after topping 649k sales in five weeks.
Passenger is at three with 'Let Her Go', Macklemore is at four with 'Can't Hold Us' and Rudimental's 'Waiting All Night' is at five.
2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa storm up to six with their Fast and Furious 6 track 'We Own It (Fast and Furious)', while Denmark's Eurovision winner Emmelie de Forest is at ten with 'Only Teardrops'.
The 1975 land at 20 with 'The City', while Evanescence's 'Bring Me To Life' shoots up to 32 following an outing on Britain's Got Talent.
Daft Punk's new collection Random Access Memories has become the year's third fastest-selling album just 48 hours since going on release.
At the current rate it is selling, the collection is expected to become 2013's fastest-selling album in the UK so far by tomorrow lunchtime.
Rod Stewart slips to two with his latest album Time, while The National land at three with Trouble Will Find Me.
30 Seconds To Mars start at four with Love Lust Faith + Dreams, while Texas round off the Top 5 with new collection The Conversation.
Demi Lovato currently resides at six with Demi, while Jamie Cullum is at 12 with Momentum. (source)
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has become the fastest-selling artist album of the year after accumulating more than 100,000 sales in just two days.
Up to the end of business on Tuesday the Columbia new release had shifted 104,795 copies, according to the Official Charts Company, more than the rest of the Top 10 put together.
Even though there is still four days of the chart week still to go, the album has already achieved the highest sales in a week by the French act, beating the 50,629 copies sold of Discovery when it debuted at No 2 in 2001. It is also on the verge of eclipsing Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble's To Be Loved for the highest first-week sales of 2013 for an artist album. That opened with 121,415 takers in April.