Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’ passes a billion Spotify streams — and soundtracks LEGO’s Christmas advert this winter

One More Time by Daft Punk has passed one billion streams on Spotify, joining the platform’s Billions Club. Almost 26 years after its release, the track still adds more than half a million streams every day.

The milestone was reported by We Rave You, and on 12 November the Spotify counter tracked by kworb stood at 1,003,078,256 streams.

The single came out in November 2000 and opened the 2001 album Discovery. It is built on Romanthony’s Auto-Tuned vocal and a disco sample from Eddie Johns’ More Spell on You, and it became one of the records that carried French house into the mainstream.

Minifigures on the decks

This winter One More Time also soundtracks LEGO’s Christmas advert. The 74-second film was directed by Michael Gracey, director of The Greatest Showman and Better Man. It opens with Daft Punk minifigures in their trademark helmets racing through the snow towards a tiny yellow door, late for work at the LEGO Holiday Workshop.

The brick then travels through the workshop’s departments and, in Music, flies over a Daft Punk concert as the duo play an LED pyramid stage, just like on the Alive 2007 tour. In the finale, the workshop crew, E.T. among them, cannot bear to part with their gifts and end up building them together with a family.

“I loved the concept that behind this secret door, there might be an entire world you never knew existed. And with LEGO bricks, that world really could be anything… there’s something incredibly joyful about making something with your own hands, but perhaps, an even greater joy in giving it to someone else,” says Michael Gracey.

Daft Punk in the LEGO universe

The advert is part of the partnership LEGO and Daft Punk announced on 22 October. The first set will be the pyramid stage from the Alive 2007 tour: a father and son from Luxembourg built it during lockdown, and the model won a LEGO Ideas contest before reaching 10,000 supporters. The set is still in development.

“This all started as a creative escape during lockdown between my son and I because of our shared love of Daft Punk and LEGO building. We never dared imagine it would take off in this way,” says Patrick Harboun, the model’s creator.

The film LEGO used to announce the partnership is soundtracked by Voyager and Human After All. ONE//FM listeners know Voyager well: it has played on our station 13 times in the past month, and Something About Us 26 times.

In late October Daft Punk became the heroes of Métal Hurlant, and last week a 1997 mix of theirs turned up after almost 30 years in a box.