>>127269935
i don't think they were industry plants, but daft punk got signed on a huge label after only two singles, one of them being "da funk". the first one didn't even chart, and da funk sold 2000 copies in its first release.
somehow this lead to a bidding war by major record labels to to sign them over. virgin won and basically benevolently agreed to daft punk's terms and conditions that were refused to much more eminent artists (the right to keep ownership of the masters and only license them to virgin). then virgin got the hottest music directors of the time to create videos for 4 tracks from this album.
can't think of a bigger 0 to a 100 career jump.