Pharrell certainly has a lot of reasons to be happy, but the artist/producer can now be ecstatic that his Oscar-nominated single “Happy” has finally reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart!
Rising 2-1, the song unseats Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” featuring Juicy J, which reigned the past four weeks, and becomes Pharrell’s first solo No. 1 hit, according to Billboard. He topped the charts previously as a featured artist with Snoop Dogg on “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” with Ludacris on “Money Maker,” and of course the song of last summer, “Blurred Lines” with Robin Thicke and T.I.
“Happy” concurrently spends a third week at No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Pharrell will perform the Despicable Me 2 cut at the Academy Awards on Sunday, and release his second solo album G I R L on March 3.
In additional chart news, John Legend has earned his first Hot 100 top 10 with “All of Me.”
Big congrats to both gentlemen!
ClaudeKelly absolutely!! 2014 off to a great start!