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2013 single by Pharrell Williams

"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]

Background [ edit ]

Williams provided vocals for French duo Daft Punk's 2013 album Random Access Memories, ☀️ on the songs "Lose Yourself to Dance" and "Get Lucky". After returning from the recording sessions in Paris, he attended ☀️ a meeting with record label managers who said that the results were "spectacular" and that "Get Lucky" would be Daft ☀️ Punk's next single. They also made Williams an offer to record his own album, to which he agreed quickly, "overwhelmed ☀️ that someone wanted to know what's in my heart".[10]

On December 17, 2013, it was announced that Williams had signed to ☀️ Columbia Records and would release his second studio album in 2014.[11]

Williams originally wrote the song for CeeLo Green and felt ☀️ Green's recording of the song was better, but Elektra Records, Green's record label, decided against it since he was on ☀️ the verge of releasing his Christmas album, Cee Lo's Magic Moment.[12][13][14][15]

Composition [ edit ]

"Happy" was written and produced by Williams, ☀️ with backing vocals by Rhea Dummett, Trevon Henderson, Ashley L. Lee, Shamika Hightower, Jasmine Murray and Terrence Rolle.[16] The track ☀️ was digitally edited and arranged by Andrew Coleman and Mike Larson, who also recorded it with assistance from Matthew Desrameaux ☀️ at Circle House Studios in Miami, Florida. The song was later mixed by Leslie Brathwaite at Music Box Studios in ☀️ Atlanta, Georgia.[16]

"Happy" plays for 3 minutes and 53 seconds[1] in common time and at a tempo of 156 beats per ☀️ minute. The song is written in the key of F minor.[17] Williams sings the upper notes in falsetto; his vocal ☀️ range spans from F 3 to C 5 .[17] His singing on the track has been compared to that of ☀️ Curtis Mayfield.[18][19]

"Happy" is a mid-tempo soul and neo soul song.[20][21] According to music journalist Paul Tingen, "Happy" is "a mid-tempo ☀️ ... song in a faux-Motown style, with an arrangement that is, by modern standards, very sparse: programmed drums, one bass ☀️ and one keyboard part, and handclaps both programmed and played, all topped off by Williams's lead vocals and a whole ☀️ posse of backing vocals".[20] Jody Rosen viewed the song as a "standout" with a "sprightly neosoul funk groove".[18]

Critical reception [ ☀️ edit ]

Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone gave it 3.5 stars and deemed it "an instant contender for 2013's Song of ☀️ the Summer".[18] In a 4/5 review, Renowned for Sound's Huw Woodward said, "Happy is a rather… well… happy affair with ☀️ a cheerful beat and exuberant vocal that would indicate that the former N.E.R.D. singer is finding a lot of lighthearted ☀️ fun to be had in both music and life. 'Because I'm happy, clap along if you feel like happiness is ☀️ the truth' sings Williams as the jaunty rhythm gets your head nodding."[23] Holly Williams of Contactmusic gave it four stars, ☀️ praising it for being "unbelievably catchy" and "the kind of song that makes you want to dance and sing along".[22] ☀️ Reggie Ugwu of Billboard called the song "Contagiously peppy and brilliantly simple".[24]

The song was nominated for Best Original Song at ☀️ the 86th Academy Awards on March 2, 2014, but lost to "Let It Go" from Frozen.[25]

In January 2024, "Happy" was ☀️ ranked at No. 13 on The Village Voice's annual year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[26]

In 2024, Far Out placed "Happy" ☀️ on its "The 10 worst songs to have spent 10 weeks at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100" list: ☀️ "Featuring nonsensical lyrics such as "clap along if you feel like a room without a roof," it's a fine enough ☀️ song for a children's film. However, there was no need for such a repetitive song to receive so much general ☀️ radio play."[27]

Chart performance [ edit ]

Netherlands [ edit ]

In October 2013, a month prior to its release, "Happy" catapulted to ☀️ No. 1 on the Dutch Top 40 chart in the Netherlands, partially as a result of radio station 3FM airplay ☀️ and subsequent online downloads, as well as featuring in a Transavia commercial.[28] It was released worldwide on November 21, 2013. ☀️ In 2014, after 35 weeks on the charts and then still in the top 15, "Happy" became the most successful ☀️ song in the Dutch Top 40 of all time.[29][30]

United Kingdom [ edit ]

In the United Kingdom, "Happy" debuted at No. ☀️ 71 on the UK Singles Chart on December 1, 2013.[31] It then spent four weeks climbing before finally reaching No. ☀️ 1 on December 29, becoming the final UK number one single of 2013.[32] It became Williams' third No. 1 song ☀️ in Britain, counting "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines", where he appeared as a featured artist.[33] It has since spent four ☀️ non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, reaching the peak on three separate occasions. In doing so, Williams became only the third ☀️ artist ever to achieve this, and the first since Guy Mitchell in 1957 with "Singing the Blues".[34] Following the single's ☀️ third week at No. 1, it spent five weeks in the top three before returning to the summit, boosted by ☀️ his performance at the 2014 Brit Awards.[34] In the same week that "Happy" returned to No. 1 for the third ☀️ time, it sold its millionth copy in the UK, Williams' third in under a year, having previously done so with ☀️ Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" in June 2013, and Thicke's "Blurred Lines" in July 2013. This made Williams only the second ☀️ artist in UK chart history (the first being The Beatles) to have three singles sell 1 million copies in under ☀️ a year,[34] as well as only the third artist ever to have three million-sellers, along with The Beatles (who have ☀️ six) and Rihanna (who has four).[34]

"Happy" was the best-selling single of UK in 2014, with 1.5 million copies sold for ☀️ the year,[4] and became the most downloaded song of all time in the UK by September 2014, with over 1.62 ☀️ million sold.[35] It had also been streamed over 25 million times and was the first song released in the 2010s ☀️ to go 3× Platinum.[36] With the inclusion of streaming, "Happy" has achieved combined sales of over 2 million.[37] Additionally, "Happy" ☀️ and Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" became the first singles ever to spend an entire calendar year on the official ☀️ UK top 75 chart. On June 12, it was announced that "Happy" had overtaken "Evergreen" by Will Young as the ☀️ UK's best-selling single of the 21st century, with sales of 1.81 million.[35] "Happy" spent 92 weeks in the UK top ☀️ 100.[38] As of February 2024 , the song has sold 1,950,000 copies.[6]

New Zealand [ edit ]

On the New Zealand Singles ☀️ Chart, "Happy" debuted at No. 11 on December 23, 2013. The next week it moved to No. 2. Then on ☀️ January 6, 2014, "Happy" began a 12-week consecutive reign in the No. 1 position, right up until March 24, 2014. ☀️ It then dropped to No. 2 for one week, then spent a further three weeks at No. 1, bringing the ☀️ total number of weeks at No. 1 to fifteen, breaking the 36-year-long record for most weeks spent at No. 1, ☀️ previously held by Boney M.'s "Rivers of Babylon".[39][40] As of February 22, 2024 , "Happy" had spent 62 straight weeks ☀️ in the New Zealand Top 40 since its debut, before finally dropping out of the chart the following week. The ☀️ song has been certified 6× Platinum in New Zealand.[39][41]

United States [ edit ]

"Happy" reached the top of the US Billboard ☀️ Hot 100 for the week ending March 8, 2014, giving Williams his fourth No. 1 single on the chart, and ☀️ his first as lead artist. It took twelve years and a week (as the issue date is March 8, 2014) ☀️ to achieve his first Hot 100 No. 1 hit as a lead artist.[42] The song remained at No. 1 the ☀️ following week, and also topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart.[43] The song also holds the record for the second-highest audience ☀️ peak for a week on the Hot 100 Airplay, with 225.9 million impressions while Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", a song ☀️ in which Pharrell was featured as well as produced and co-wrote, holds the all-time record.[44] The song remained at the ☀️ No. 1 position longer than any other song in the calendar year. The single passed its 4 million sales mark ☀️ in April 2014, the first song of 2014 to do so.[45]

On the week of May 17, 2014, after spending ten ☀️ weeks at the summit, "Happy" was finally knocked off number one by John Legend's "All of Me" down to the ☀️ No. 2 spot.[46] "Happy" became the 28th song in the history of the chart to reach this milestone.[47] It spent ☀️ a total of 22 weeks in the top 10, entering on the week-ending February 15, 2014 and departing on July ☀️ 19, 2014. The song sold 5,633,000 copies in the US in the first six months of 2014, the most ever ☀️ of any song in the first six months of any calendar year.[48] It was also the best-selling song of 2014 ☀️ in the US with 6.45 million copies sold for the year,[3] and has sold over 6.9 million total copies in ☀️ the US as of April 2024 .[49]

Other charts [ edit ]

The song also topped the charts of 22 other countries, ☀️ including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Spain. It has spent twelve weeks (including seven consecutive) at ☀️ No. 1 in Ireland,[50] making it the third song in less than a year to spend more than seven weeks ☀️ at No. 1, after Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Avicii's "Wake Me Up!". In France, "Happy" spent 22 weeks at ☀️ No. 1, the longest reign at the top of the Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique, beating Lou Bega's "Mambo No. ☀️ 5", which spent 20 weeks at No. 1 in 1999.

Music video [ edit ]

To coincide with the single release, the ☀️ website 24hoursofhappy was launched. It features a visual presentation of "Happy" advertised as being "the world's first 24-hour music video." ☀️ The video was directed by the French directing team We Are from LA[51] with creative director Yoann Lemoine,[52] and shot ☀️ by steadicam operator Jon Beattie.[53] It consists of the four-minute song repeated multiple times, with various people dancing around Los ☀️ Angeles and miming along. The website allows users to navigate to various points in the 24-hour timeframe, including all 360 ☀️ four-minute segments.[54] The video featured appearances by Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler, the Creator, Jamie Foxx, Magic Johnson, Issa Rae, Earl Sweatshirt, ☀️ Kelly Osbourne, JoJo, Sérgio Mendes, Ryan Heffington, Whit Hertford, Leah LaBelle, Jasper Dolphin, and Despicable Me 2 stars Steve Carell ☀️ and Miranda Cosgrove. It held the Guinness world record for the longest music video from 2013 to 2024, when it ☀️ was surpassed by Twenty One Pilots’ 178 day long live stream of fan clips for their single "Level of Concern".

A ☀️ four-minute edit of the video was also released onto the iamOTHER and Pharrell's own YouTube channel on November 21, 2013, ☀️ and January 8, 2014 respectively; both videos have received over 1 billion views as of January 2024.[55][56] It was nominated ☀️ for Best Male Video and Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.[7][8] The 24-hour music video ☀️ for "Happy" was also projected at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in April 2014.[57]

"Happy" tribute videos [ ☀️ edit ]

The original video spawned many cover videos on YouTube in which people from different cities throughout the world dance ☀️ to the song. Those videos are usually called "Pharrell Williams – Happy – We Are from [name of the city]".[58] ☀️ As of May 2014 , more than 1,500 videos have been created. Inspired by this global phenomenon, a French couple ☀️ launched a website wearehappyfrom to showcase the remakes.[59]

In April 2014, the Embassy of the United States, Yerevan, Armenia released a ☀️ video titled "Happy Yerevan", directed by Artyom Abovyan featuring US ambassador John A. Heffern and several Armenian celebrities, such as ☀️ singers André, Emmy and Aram Mp3.[60][61] The same month artsmedia Albania produced a music video for the track featuring inhabitants ☀️ of Tirana. The video soon became popular in Albania and caused controversy over the usage of
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of Albanian First ☀️ Secretary Enver Hoxha.[62]

Arrests in Iran for tribute [ edit ]

In May 2014, a group of Iranian fans who created a ☀️ tribute to "Happy" were arrested.[63][64][65][66] According to a police chief, the song represented vulgarity and also hurt public chastity. Williams ☀️ responded to the arrest in a tweet stating "It's beyond sad these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness."[67] ☀️ Soon after Iran's President Hassan Rouhani criticized the arrest when he tweeted "#Happiness is our people's right. We shouldn't be ☀️ too hard on behaviours caused by joy."[68] The dancers, along with the director,[69] were later released. It was reported on ☀️ September 19, 2014, that seven of the individuals in the Iranian video had been handed sentences, suspended for three years, ☀️ of 91 lashes each along with jail by Iranian courts.[70]

"Weird Al" Yankovic parody [ edit ]

In 2014, American musician "Weird ☀️ Al" Yankovic parodied "Happy" as "Tacky" on his fourteenth studio album Mandatory Fun. The song mocks questionable style in fashion ☀️ as well as activities considered gauche. Yankovic recorded the song as one of the last on Mandatory Fun, and received ☀️ Williams' approval directly, through email. He remarked he was "honored" to have his work spoofed by Yankovic.[71] The song's one-shot ☀️ music video parodies "Happy", and was the first in a series of eight videos released over eight days in promotion ☀️ of Mandatory Fun. It features cameo appearances by Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Kristen Schaal, and Jack Black, and ☀️ was produced by Nerdist Industries.[72][73]

Credits and personnel [ edit ]

Recording[2]

Recorded at Circle House Studios, Miami, Florida

Mixed at Music Box Studios, ☀️ Atlanta, Georgia

Personnel[2]

Pharrell Williams – lead vocals, background vocals, keyboards, drums, bass guitar, writing, production

Rhea Dummett – backing vocals

Trevon Henderson – ☀️ backing vocals

Ashley L. Lee – backing vocals

Shamika Hightower – backing vocals

Jasmine Murray – backing vocals

Terrence Rolle – backing vocals

Amir Windom ☀️ - A&R

Mike Larson – recording, digital editing, arrangement

Matthew Desrameaux – recording assistant

Andrew Coleman – digital editing, arrangement

Leslie Brathwaite – mixer

Reuben ☀️ Cohen – mastering

Charts [ edit ]

Certifications [ edit ]

Release history [ edit ]