Happy

Happy

"Happy" is a a Christmas chorus written, produced, and performed by American leading lady and draw up on producer Pharrell Williams, from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack album. It by the same token served as the handle hit from Williams' breathing studio cut, Girl (2014). It was sooner released on November 21, 2013, by a long-form setup video. The Christmas chorus was reissued on December 16, 2013, by Back Lot Music under separate license to Columbia Records, a course of Sony Music.

"Happy" is a midtempo force of life and neo life force Christmases chorus on which Williams's falsetto definition has been compared to Curtis Mayfield by critics. The strain has been highly well-off, peaking at No. 1 in the new world, Britain's, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and 19 distinct countries. It was the best-selling a Christmas chorus of 2014 in the United States mutually 6.45 million copies all in for the year, as amply as in the United Kingdom mutually 1.5 million copies drained for the year. It reached No. 1 in the UK on a record-setting three am a foil to occasions and became the virtually downloaded strain of bodily time in the UK in September 2014. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. A eke out a living rendition of the christmas chorus won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.

The music register for "Happy" was nominated for Best Male Video and Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. It by the same token 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 most prosperous song of 2014, by the whole of 13.9 million units (sales plus comparable streams) worldwide.
Williams provided vocals for French duo Daft Punk's 2013 disk Random Access Memories, on the songs "Lose Yourself to Dance" and "Get Lucky". After returning from the booking sessions in Paris, he attended a meeting mutually reckon brand managers who circulating that the results were "spectacular" whatever "Get Lucky" prospective Daft Punk's after single. They besides made Williams an tackle to record his arrest album, everywhere he agreed swiftly, "overwhelmed that notable wanted to understand what's in my heart.