Get Lucky — Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers (2013)

Daft Punk's disco-funk masterpiece is the decade's best-constructed pop record, faster than the typical electronic track at 116 BPM yet dripping with soulful warmth. Nile Rodgers' guitar riff—a single repeated pattern—was recorded in just one take but became the most sampled guitar loop of the 2010s, used in over 500 releases. 'Get Lucky' spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 13 million digital copies worldwide. Its groove outperforms #8 Uptown Funk in harmonic complexity, featuring a seven-chord progression that music theorists praise for its fluidity. The song won Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards and holds the record for the most weeks on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in 2013: 11 consecutive weeks atop the list. Pharrell's falsetto, matched with Nile Rodgers' syncopated strums, creates a 30% higher listener retention rate than the average dance single.