Daft Punk New York Times' Typos Force Publication to Issue Correction

A pair of typos in the New York Times Wednesday had the popular electronica band Daft Punk going by Daft Pink and Daft Puck, prompting several tweets poking fun at the newspaper's mistake.

The Times article meant to praise the French electronica duo for their catchy, disco-inspired summer hit "Get Lucky," but instead ended up erroneously misstating the band's name twice.

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"Because of editing errors, an earlier version of this article misstated the group’s name twice," a correction read. "As the article correctly noted elsewhere, it is Daft Punk, not Daft Puck or Daft Pink."

But attentive Twitter users had already picked up on the typos.

New York Times Ccorrection of the day - It's Daft Punk, not Daft Pink. jimromenesko.com/2013/05/30/oh-…

— Duane Dudek (@TheDudekAbides) May 30, 2013

@nycjim Luckily for NYT, Daft Punk's early track "Da Funk" wasn't mentioned in the article. That typo could have been messy.

— Phillip Lane (@philphila) May 30, 2013

@nytimes typo in paragraph 12: you call them "Daft Pink," not Daft Punk

— J.T. Fales (@JT_Fales) May 30, 2013

@ryanbeckwith Daft Pink would be a great name for an all-female Daft Punk cover band. Daft Puck, I guess, an all-Canadian one.

— Bart Smith (@bart_smith) May 30, 2013

Check out the correction for this story on Daft Pink, I mean Daft Puck, oh, whatever: nytimes.com/2013/05/30/art…

— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) May 30, 2013

That said, if either Daft Puck or Daft Pink ever put out records, I’m buying them. Also Deft Pick.

— Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) May 30, 2013

Daft Punk's fourth studio album, "Random Access Memories," broke the record for most first-week streams in the U.S. after its release last week.

The album, which features collaborations with musicians such as Pharrell, Giorgio Moroder, and Nile Rodgers to recreate the sounds of electronic dance music, sold 165,000 physical copies in its first week, putting the disc firmly at the top of the charts.

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