Daft Punk Among Top-Searched Musical Acts on Google in 2014

As it's the end of the year, it's time for all of us (present company included) to look back at the last 12 months and put shit into categories. It makes looking back at what went down in 2014 that much more interesting. Recently, Google posted their top searched items for 2014, and it looks like Daft Punk ranked #9 on the "Trending Music Artists, 2014, United States" list. Mind you, they'd not released any new music this year, so what was this for?

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daft punk grammys 2014

As it's the end of the year, it's time for all of us (present company included) to look back at the last 12 months and put shit into categories. It makes looking back at what went down in 2014 that much more interesting. Recently, Google posted their top searched items for 2014, and it looks like Daft Punk ranked #9 on the "Trending Music Artists, 2014, United States" list. Mind you, they'd not released any new music this year, so what was this for?

We'd say it was the Grammys. Daft Punk's Random Access Memories album (and first single, "Get Lucky") did very well at the 56th Grammy Awards ceremony, picking up awards for Best Engineered Album, Best Dance/Electronica Album, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Record Of The Year, and Album Of The Year. We'd not thought of it at the time, but maybe those wins are what caused the up-tick in sales of Random Access Memories earlier this year. Interestingly enough, during the Grammys we found that some people still don't know what Daft Punk looks like underneath their helmets.

All of that aside, it looks like these Google Trends are a testament to the quality of Daft Punk's album, as no other electronic artists cracked that top 10. On the flipside, Mysteryland, Electric Forest, and HARD Summer made the top 10 for Google's "Music Festivals, 2014, United States" list. Considering festivals were on the rise in America, and there are a grip of EDM festivals out there, we're surprised that Ultra and EDC Las Vegas (at least) didn't make it. Maybe next year?

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