To coincide with the single release, the website 24hoursofhappy.com was launched. The song also topped the charts of 22 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Spain. It was also the best-selling song of 2014 in the US with 6.45 million copies sold for the year, and has sold over 6.9 million total copies in the US as of April 2015update. 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. “Happy” became the 28th song in the history of the chart to reach this milestone. 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.
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In some situations, the words fortunate and happy are roughly equivalent. Some common synonyms of happy are fortunate, lucky, and providential. The same month artsmedia Albania produced a music video for the track featuring inhabitants of Tirana.

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Then on January 6, 2014, “Happy” began a 12-week consecutive reign in the No. 1 position, right up until March 24, 2014. 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. It became Williams’ third No. 1 song in Britain, counting “Get Lucky” and “Blurred Lines”, where he appeared as a featured artist. It went on to finish number five on the year-end Single Top 40 list, giving Williams three songs in the top five, along with “Blurred Lines” and “Get Lucky”, both of which feature him.

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The 24-hour music video for “Happy” was also projected at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in April 2014. 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 with creative director Yoann Lemoine, and shot by steadicam operator Jon Beattie. 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. 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.

• Then on January 6, 2014, “Happy” began a 12-week consecutive reign in the No. 1 position, right up until March 24, 2014.
• It was also the best-selling song of 2014 in the US with 6.45 million copies sold for the year, and has sold over 6.9 million total copies in the US as of April 2015update.
• The rideable happy ghast is a game-changer for players, essentially paving the way for higher limits in Minecraft.
• 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.
• Those videos are usually called “Pharrell Williams – Happy – We Are from name of the city”.

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Happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate. Fitting implies harmony of mood or tone. Appropriate happy jokers implies eminent or distinctive fitness. Proper suggests a suitability through essential nature or accordance with custom. Suitable implies an answering to requirements or demands. Fit stresses adaptability and sometimes special readiness for use or action.

• 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”.
• Jody Rosen viewed the song as a “standout” with a “sprightly neosoul funk groove”.
• In 2024, the song appeared on the LEGO animated biography of Williams’ life and on the soundtrack album Piece by Piece.
• 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.
• It spent twelve weeks (including seven consecutive) at No. 1 in Ireland, 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!”.
• According to a police chief, the song represented vulgarity and also hurt public chastity.

Once players have crafted the happy ghast saddle, they need to simply approach the mob to place and equip it. The happy ghast saddle in Minecraft, or the harness, is a unique item added as part of the Chase the Skies game drop that allows players to tame and ride a floating happy ghast and turn it into an aerial mode of transport. The rideable happy ghast is a game-changer for players, essentially paving the way for higher limits in Minecraft.
In 2014, American musician “Weird Al” Yankovic parodied “Happy” as “Tacky” on his fourteenth studio album Mandatory Fun. 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. According to a police chief, the song represented vulgarity and also hurt public chastity. The video soon became popular in Albania and caused controversy over the usage of images of Albanian First Secretary Enver Hoxha.

It had also been streamed over 25 million times and was the first song released in the 2010s to go 3× Platinum. 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. It has since spent four non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, reaching the peak on three separate occasions. The music video for “Happy” was nominated for Best Male Video and Video of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
The song was later mixed by Leslie Brathwaite at Music Box Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. 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. Williams provided vocals for French duo Daft Punk’s 2013 album Random Access Memories on the songs “Lose Yourself to Dance” and “Get Lucky”. In 2024, the song appeared on the LEGO animated biography of Williams’ life and on the soundtrack album Piece by Piece.

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The happy ghast saddle in Minecraft is a new item introduced in the latest Chase the Skies drop. The Jan. 9 meeting came less than a week after the United States’ capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. During the Jan. 9 meeting with oil execs, the president was seated between Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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. The original video spawned many cover videos on YouTube in which people from different cities throughout the world dance to the song. 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 uploads of the video have received over 1 billion views as of April 2024. It consists of the four-minute song repeated multiple times, with various people dancing around Los Angeles and miming along.