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"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).

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]

Pharrell Williams - Happy {Single} [from Despicable Me 2] Torrent 16

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In 2002, Clipse released their debut album, Lord Willin', with produced entirely by the Neptunes.[28] That year, the Neptunes produced numerous songs on Justin Timberlake's debut album Justified, including the singles "Señorita", "Like I Love You", and "Rock Your Body".[21] In 2003, the Neptunes released a compilation album, Clones.[29] According to an unnamed August 2003 survey cited by The Age, it was found the Neptunes produced almost 20% of songs played on British radio at the time; another survey in the US found they'd produced 43% of radio songs.[18] The Neptunes produced Snoop Dogg's single "Drop It Like It's Hot" (2004), which also featured vocals from Williams.[30]

In 2013, Williams collaborated with Azealia Banks with the song "ATM Jam".[53] The song was initially intended for Banks' debut studio album, Broke with Expensive Taste (2014), but was later removed from the album after Banks blamed Williams for the song's poor commercial performance.[54] Williams penned three new original songs, included alongside composer Heitor Pereira's score, for the film Despicable Me 2 (2013).[55] These were "Just a Cloud Away", "Happy", and "Scream" (featuring CeeLo Green).[56] His two original songs from the first film, "Despicable Me" and "Fun, Fun, Fun", were also reprised on the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack.[57] He also participated in the drummer sessions of the soundtrack of Man of Steel by Hans Zimmer.[58] In March 2013, Robin Thicke's single "Blurred Lines", written and produced by Williams, was released.[59][60] The song peaked at number one in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States.[61][62] In mid-2013, Williams was involved in two songs that sold a million copies in the UK: "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines".[63]

It was announced in December 2013 that Williams had been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year.[68] In the same month, Williams signed a contract with Columbia Records, and announced an album set for release in 2014 that would feature "Happy".[12] For "Happy", Williams was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[69] In February 2014, Major Lazer announced they would be releasing a five-track EP titled Apocalypse Soon on the 25th of that month.[70] The EP, released via Mad Decent and Secretly Canadian, features Williams and Sean Paul, among others.[70] The first single off the EP, which features Williams, is titled "Aerosol Can".[71] Williams contributed a verse to Future's February 2014 single "Move That Dope", which also featured Pusha T and Casino over production from Mike Will Made It.[72]

The single which went absolutely manic and the video which has had over 137 million views went viral spawning a copycat of videos done by people mimicking the rapper from Beijing to Barbados. The message in the song is clear and not only is it ubiquitous but it literally makes you feel good, it makes you feel... happy! The video for the first time ever in history had a 24 hour release which ran for 24 hours went viral. The effect of the video and the upbeat tune in addition to the positive lyrics of the song have all been a recipe for success and is a great example of using content to create community and to deliver on marketing objectives.

A quick Google search shows that between Pharrell and his backup singers, the word "happy" is said 57 times during a single run through of the song. What would that number be for the 24 hour version?

With "Happy" I went through everything that I thought was possible in my mind based off of what I understood about Gru and what I thought the people needed in terms of what the studio was looking for, and none of it was working. It was only until I was tapped out that I had to ask myself the fundamental question: they're asking for a song that's happy. They're asking for something where Gru is in a good mood, and that's when I realized that everything I needed was right there. I began to ask myself, "What does feeling like a good mood feel like?" That's where "Happy" came from, and that's how that happened. And it would have never happened if the studio wouldn't have kept telling me, "No, it's not good enough. No, it's not good enough."

To coincide with the release of "Happy," Pharrell launched a website called 24hoursofhappy.com, which billed itself as "the world's first 24-hour music video." Shot on Steadicam in Los Angeles, it captures one person after another dancing with abandon to the song, whose four minutes are looped 360 times to cover every moment of the day. The video, a collage of jubilant but also touchingly intimate testimonies to the leveling power of music, unleashed a worldwide phenomenon: Thousands of cover videos appeared across the globe, each one uploaded to YouTube under the name of the city in which it was made. In May of this year, six young Iranian "Happy" dancers were jailed for their video, which Tehran's chief of police deemed an affront to traditional codes of behavior. Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, stepped in via Twitter. "#Happiness is our people's right," he tweeted. "We shouldn't be too hard on behavior caused by joy." When Oprah Winfrey interviewed Pharrell and invited him to view a series of the tribute videos, from Slovakia, Detroit, Malawi, the Philippines and elsewhere, he sat on his stool across from her and wept.