Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video)

"Happy" is a single composed, directed and showed by American artist and producer Pharrell Williams, from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack collection. It also served as the lead music from Williams' 2-nd studio

 

album, Girl (2014). It was debut recorded on November 21, 2013, alongside a long-form video clip. The single 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 single on which Williams's voice has been compared to Curtis Mayfield by critics. The single has been highly successful, peaking at No. one in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and 19 different countries. It is the best-selling single of 2014 in the United States with 6450000 copies sold for the one year, as well as in the United Kingdom with 1500000 copies sold for the these year. It reached No. 1 in the UK on a record-setting 3 separate occasions and became the most downloaded single of all time in the UK in September 2014. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. A live rendition of the single won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.

The  clip 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 single was Billboard's first single for 2014.

"Happy" was the most successful music of 2014, with 13.9 million units (sales plus equivalent streams) worldwide.