One More Time (Daft Punk song)
"One More Time" is a song by French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released in November 2000 by Virgin Records as the lead single from their second studio album, Discovery. It is a French house song featuring an auto-tuned vocal performance by Romanthony and a sample of "More Spell on You" by Eddie Johns. The music video forms part of the 2003 anime film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. "One More Time" reached number one on the French Singles Chart, number two on the UK Singles Chart, and number 61 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The Village Voices Pazz & Jop annual year-end critics' poll named "One More Time" one of the best songs of the year. It was named one of the greatest songs of the decade by Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone named it one of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Mixmag readers voted it the greatest dance record of all time.
Composition
Daft Punk considered "One More Time" to be the link connecting their previous studio album Homework to Discovery. The song was completed in 1998, where it remained "sitting on a shelf" until its eventual release on 13 November 2000. It prominently features a vocal performance written and sung by Romanthony. As stated by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, "we thought the funkiness of his voice fit the funkiness of the music."The song was considered an example of French house's frequent use of audio filters, featuring heavily processed auto-tuned vocals. Thomas Bangalter, a member of Daft Punk, said: "A lot of people complain about musicians using Auto-Tune. It reminds me of the late '70s when musicians in France tried to ban the synthesizer... What they didn't see was that you could use those tools in a new way instead of just for replacing the instruments that came before." According to Bangalter, Romanthony liked the effect and was interested in innovation. Bangalter also elaborated:
The album version of the track includes a two-minute breakdown. Bangalter remarked that, "The break is so long it's not even the break. The song itself is the breakdown."
Sampling
"One More Time" contains a sample of the 1979 disco song "More Spell on You" by Eddie Johns, which is uncredited in the Discovery liner notes. Johns, who has been destitute for decades, did not receive royalties for the sample. A representative for Daft Punk confirmed the use of the sample and that they continued to pay royalties to GM Musipro, the French publishing company that has owned rights to "More Spell on You" since 1995. A representative of GM Musipro said they had never been able to locate Johns, and that they would follow up on the matter after an investigation by the Los Angeles Times in 2021. The music industry attorney Erin M. Jacobson said it was common for rights owners to be untraceable.Release
The single contains an eight-minute version of "One More Time" featuring extended vocals absent from the album version. An "unplugged" rendition was included in the 2003 remix album Daft Club. The remix album contains a remix of "Aerodynamic" by Daft Punk featuring elements of "One More Time". The "short radio edit" of "One More Time" from the single was later included in the 2006 compilation album Musique Vol. 1 1993–2005. Daft Punk performed "One More Time" on their Alive 2006/2007 tour; a performance was included on the live album Alive 2007.Use in other works
"One More Time" was sampled and incorporated in Miliyah Kato's song "Future Lover (Mirai Koibito)" from her album Liberty in January 2016. The song peaked at number 30 in Japan. The track was also sampled and interpolated in the Drake and 21 Savage song "Circo Loco" on their album, Her Loss ; however, the sample was heavily criticized by critics, with Paul A. Thompson of Pitchfork describing the song as having a "hammily stupid Daft Punk flip", while Josh Svetz of Paste wrote that the song's "worst crime is butchering Daft Punk's classic "One More Time"." 2023 Britain's Got Talent series 16 winner Viggo Venn used the song during his audition round.Music video
The accompanying music video for "One More Time" features scenes that would later form part of Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, a 2003 anime film that acts as a visual of Discovery. The video features a pop band of humanoid blue-skinned aliens performing the song to a crowd on their home planet while a mysterious force approaches it. Like the rest of the feature film, it was directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi under the visual supervision of Leiji Matsumoto.Chart performance
"One More Time" was one of a few songs to debut at number-one on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart. It topped the single sales charts of Daft Punk's native France, Canada, and Portugal, and the dance charts of the UK, Ireland, Flanders, and the United States. The song almost topped the UK and Scottish Singles Chart, as well as Australia's dance chart, but stalled at number two. Elsewhere in Europe, the song was in the top-ten of sales chart in ten countries and an airplay chart for Poland. On the Danish singles chart and the Dutch Top 40, it almost was, but stopped at number eleven. It also made the bottom position of the top-ten in the Oceanic countries of Australia and New Zealand. The song's lowest peak on a single sales chart was in Sweden, where it reached number 26 during a 14-week run on a top-60 chart.In the United States, "One More Time" peaked at number 61 on a 16-week run on the Billboard Hot 100, which, unlike most other national singles charts at the time that were sales-only, factored in both sales and radio. Its appearance on the chart was mainly due to sales; on the component chart for the format, it reached number 17 on its 14th week and lasted 26 weeks, exiting at number 71. By June 2013 it had sold 1,052,000 digital copies there, and became Daft Punk's first million-seller. On the Hot 100's top-75 component chart for radio, however, it only spent one week at number 71.
Legacy
"One More Time" was listed at number five on Pitchforks top 500 songs of the 2000s, with the magazine writing that it "distill 25 years of pop and house into five and a half minutes of first-time joy." Rolling Stone listed it at number 33 of their top 100 songs of the decade as well as number 307 on its amended "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in May 2010. It was voted by Mixmag readers as the greatest dance record of all time. The song was also ranked at number 11 on The Village Voices Pazz & Jop annual year-end critics' poll. In 2021, Billboard magazine ranked it number one on its list of the 20 greatest Daft Punk songs. In 2022, Rolling Stone ranked "One More Time" number two in their "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" list. In 2024, The Guardian named it the best French touch track. In 2025, Billboard ranked "One More Time" the third-best dance song of all time.Cover versions
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Charts
Weekly charts
| Chart | Peak position |
Year-end charts
| Chart | Position |
| Australia | 60 |
| Australian Dance | 3 |
| Austria | 45 |
| Belgium | 39 |
| Canada | 6 |
| Canada Radio | 74 |
| Europe | 20 |
| France | 67 |
| Germany | 30 |
| Italy | 66 |
| Netherlands | 74 |
| Netherlands | 99 |
| Switzerland | 35 |
| US Dance Club Play | 2 |
| US Maxi-Singles Sales | 6 |
| US Rhythmic Top 40 | 89 |