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. The song remained at the No. 1 position longer than any other song in the calendar year. I think for all parties, you can start wishing a happy New Year two weeks ahead of time. The first-ever 24-hour music video was made for “Happy”—it follows 400 different people enjoying life while they walk around LA. 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.

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Inspired by this global phenomenon, a French couple launched a website wearehappyfrom.com to showcase the remakes. Those videos are usually called "Pharrell Williams – Happy – We Are from name of the city". 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. 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. The website allows users to navigate to various points in the 24-hour timeframe, including all 360 four-minute segments. The song also topped the charts of 22 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Spain.

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Trump shows off 'Happy Trump lapel pin' Additionally, the ghast harness allows players to give a ride to three additional players, making it one of the best methods of transport for multiplayer maps and Realms. Now, it can be navigated and used as a seamless method of transportation that allows players to reach greater heights and difficult places with ease. Officially called the harness, it allows players to bind the mob, allowing up to four players to ride together and explore the world.

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• 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!".
• 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.
• It lets you tame the happy ghast and ride it around the overworld.
• The song was later mixed by Leslie Brathwaite at Music Box Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.
• The song was reissued on December 16, 2013, by Back Lot Music under exclusive license to Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music.

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Here's everything you need to know to craft the happy ghast saddle happy jokers casino in Minecraft. It lets you tame the happy ghast and ride it around the overworld. The happy ghast saddle in Minecraft is a new item introduced in the latest Chase the Skies drop. Showing it off to reporters, Trump said the pin was a gift and joked about his reputation, remarking that he is “never happy” and “never satisfied” until he achieves his goal of making America great again. Once obtained, hold it in your hand and interact with the happy ghast to make the mob wear it. The happy ghast saddle in Minecraft or the harness can be crafted using three pieces of leather, two glass, and one wool.

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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. The single passed its 4 million sales mark in April 2014, the first song of 2014 to do so. The song remained at No. 1 the following week, and also topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart. "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 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.

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Jody Rosen viewed the song as a "standout" with a "sprightly neosoul funk groove". "Happy" plays for 3 minutes and 53 seconds in common time and at a tempo of 160 beats per minute. The song was later mixed by Leslie Brathwaite at Music Box Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. On December 17, 2013, it was announced that Williams had signed to Columbia Records and would release his second studio album in 2014. Felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful. Happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate. Proper suggests a suitability through essential nature or accordance with custom. Fit stresses adaptability and sometimes special readiness for use or action. Fit, suitable, meet, proper, appropriate, fitting, apt, happy, felicitous mean right with respect to some end, need, use, or circumstance. Fortunate suggests being rewarded beyond what one deserves.

• The song also topped the charts of 22 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Spain.
• He was one of the most gracious people about it when ‘Happy’ came out
• Some folks on his team just felt that the priority should be on his album at the time, so they elected not to do that song.
• The powers that be, at the time, did not see it fit for him.
• The 24-hour music video for "Happy" was also projected at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema in April 2014.
• "Happy" became the 28th song in the history of the chart to reach this milestone.

“Someone gave me this,” he said of the accessory, holding it up for visibility in the room of oil execs. These guidelines are more than fair, so I hope you got all your Happy New Year's messages to everyone because it's now time to pull on the reins. But I'm lucky they didn't strap a straitjacket on me and wheel me out of the restaurant like Hannibal Lecter. Like, imagine if in the second week of November, someone came up to you and was like, "Happy Halloween!" I think once you go beyond the first week of January, you start sounding like a lunatic. Then, for genuine friends and family, I'll give a week. 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". "Happy" was the best-selling single of UK in 2014, with 1.5 million copies sold for the year, and became the most downloaded song of all time in the UK by September 2014, with over 1.62 million sold. It has since spent four non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, reaching the peak on three separate occasions. 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. In October 2013, a month prior to its single 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. 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. Reggie Ugwu of Billboard called the song "Contagiously peppy and brilliantly simple". It held the Guinness world record for the longest music video from 2013 to 2020, when it was surpassed by Twenty One Pilots' 178 day long live stream of fan clips for their single "Level of Concern". 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!". As of February 22, 2015update, "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. 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. It then spent four weeks climbing before finally reaching No. 1 on December 29, becoming the final UK number one single of 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.