The music video was directed by Michel Gondry and choreographed by Blanca Li.
In 2017, computer scientist Colin Morris analyzed 15,000 Billboard Hot 100 hits for repetitiveness, based on compression algorithms. Around the World was found to be the most repetitive of the songs analyzed.
In October 2011, NME placed it at number 21 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Daft Punk recalled that the song "was like making a Chic record with a talk box and just playing the bass on the synthesizer".
The song is composed in the key of E minor.