"Happy" is a song written, produced, and performed by American musician Pharrell Williams, released as the only single from the ⚾️ soundtrack album for the film Despicable Me 2 (2013). The song 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.[1] The song also served as the lead single from Williams's second studio album, Girl ⚾️ (2014).
The official remix features American rapper Sky Blu of LMFAO.
"Happy" is an uptempo soul and neo soul song on which ⚾️ Williams's falsetto voice has been compared to Curtis Mayfield's 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 was the best-selling song ⚾️ of 2014 in the United States with 6.45 million copies sold for the year,[3] as well as in the United ⚾️ Kingdom with 1.5 million copies sold for the year.[4] It reached No. 1 in the UK on a record-setting three ⚾️ occasions and became the most downloaded song of all time in the UK in September 2014;[5] it is the eighth-highest-selling ⚾️ single of all time in the country.[6] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. 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 "Happy" 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.[7][8] The song was ⚾️ Billboard's number-one single for 2014.
"Happy" was the most successful song of 2014, with 13.9 million units (sales plus equivalent streams) ⚾️ worldwide.[9]
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