Homework Songwriting Credits by Daft Punk

Homework is the debut studio album by Daft Punk, released in January 1997 on Virgin Records. It was produced entirely by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo themselves, and the album that established the French house sound as a globally viable commercial genre while introducing the duo's philosophy of technology-mediated anonymity (performed in public only as robots). The album synthesizes Chicago house, funk, Detroit techno, and acid house into a consistent aesthetic framework, with Bangalter and de Homem-Christo writing and producing every track themselves without outside co-writers or producers. 'Around the World' and 'Da Funk' were the principal singles; 'Around the World' with its hypnotic, repeated vocal hook reached the top five in France and the UK and became one of the defining dance singles of 1997, while the Michel Gondry-directed music video, featuring costumed dancers performing choreography representing each instrument layer in the track, is among the most celebrated music videos of the decade. Homework has sold over three million copies worldwide, reached number three on the UK Albums Chart, and is credited as one of the primary records that brought French house, alongside contemporaries Cassius, Étienne de Crécy, and later Modjo, to global commercial prominence. The album's production approach, entirely self-sufficient, sample-based, and constructed without the traditional features of live instrumentation or outside collaboration, established a creative model the duo would maintain across their entire career.