After what seemed like eons and eons of anticipation, Daft Punk announced a new album earlier this year. Keeping fans further on the edge of their seats, was the anticipation of what the album would look like, when it would be released and what it would be called. Well, the wait is over!

There was much leading up to this moment. Last month, Daft Punk confirmed that they had signed to Columbia, and on March 2nd, a mysterious television ad aired during “Saturday Night Live” featuring 15 seconds of a new song.

After a series of what some would term as an ingenious marketting strategy, Daft Punk’s long-awaited new album finally has a title and release date: “Random Access Memories,” out May 21 on the electronic stars’ Daft Life imprint (in association with new label Columbia Records), is now available for pre-order on iTunes.

Earlier this week, an international poster campaign for the new album began, with enormous images of the album’s cover appearing across the globe, including London.

The album will be 13 tracks long – with an estimated running length of 74 minutes. A UK release date is yet to be confirmed, but it is likely to be the same as the US. It was previously believed that the album would be titled No End.

After Daft Punk announced a strategic alliance with Ultra Records earlier this year, the duo’s 15-second “SNL” commercial was projected onto a building outside of the Ultra Music Festival in Miami on Friday night. Could Daft Punk crash the second weekend of this year’s Ultra fest? Stay tuned to the blog for more.

In addition to their three studio albums beginning with 1997′s “Homework,” the highly influential French production duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo released the soundtrack to “Tron: Legacy” in 2010. Daft Punk also released their second live album, “Alive 2007,” in 2007.