"Happy" is a song written,
produced, and performed by American singer and producer Pharrell Williams from
the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack album. It also served as the lead single from
Williams' second studio album, Girl (2014). It was first released on November
21, 2013, alongside a long-form music video. The song was reissued on December
16, 2013, by Back Lot Music under exclusive license to Columbia Records, a division
of Sony Music.
"Happy" is a midtempo soul and
neo soul song on which Williams's falsetto voice has been compared to Curtis
Mayfield by critics. The song has been highly successful, peaking at No. 1 in
the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and 19 other
countries. It is the best-selling song of 2014 in the United States with 6.45
million copies sold for the year, as well as in the United Kingdom with 1.5
million copies sold for the year. It reached No. 1 in the UK on a
record-setting three separate occasions and became the most downloaded song of
all time in the UK in September 2014. It was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Original Song. In the week ending April 11, 2015, it dropped out of the
official UK top 75 chart after 70 consecutive weeks. A live rendition of the
song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 57th Annual
Grammy Awards.
The music video for the song was nominated
for Best Male Video and Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
It also won the Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 57th Annual Grammy
Awards. The song was Billboard 's number-one single for 2014.
"Happy" was the best-selling song
of 2014 with sales of 13.9 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling
singles of all time.
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