The success of Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ song has given Canada’s Loverboy a boost in streaming plays. Loverboy had an album titled ‘Get Lucky’ 32 years ago and people are discovering it when searching for the Daft Punk track.
‘Get Lucky’ was Loverboy’s second album. Released in 1981 it sold over 4 million copies in America. It’s big hit was ‘Working For The Weekend’.
Online streaming company Sounddrop started to notice an increase in Loverboy plays. “We’ve seen Loverboy’s hits played more and more in our Love the 80s room, and traffic to the Loverboy room has increased,” said Thomas Ford, VP of Marketing for Soundrop. “There’s no question the attention from the Daft Punk single has led some fans to the band’s album, which just proves the enduring appeal of the record some three decades later.”
Loverboy’s Paul Dean said, “I don’t mind how they find out about us. Maybe we ‘Got Lucky’ back in the day, but it takes more than luck to survive this long. Hey, we’re just a bunch of daft punk-rockers ourselves.”
Loverboy is still actively touring with original members Mike Reno on vocals, Paul Dean on guitar and Doug Johnson on keyboards, Matt Frenette on drums with Ken ‘Spider’ Sinnaeve replacing the late Scott Smith on bass. Smith died in 2000 after being swept of a yacht by a freak wave off the coast of San Francisco.
