Cos they’re Happy: music video starts WEG countdown

Musician Pharrell Williams must hold upwards a happy man, given the sum of play his catchy vocal Happy is getting, as well as straight off it has hitting the Equus caballus world.

First a retirement hamlet inward New Zealand got its pensioners inward on the act, as well as straight off the organisers of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are getting Happy inward their ain music video.

With less than iii weeks to become earlier the starting fourth dimension of the Games in Normandy, the Organising Committee created its ain version of the famous music video, amongst of riders, horses, employees from the committee, volunteers, dancers, as well as of class mascots Norman as well as Pom’Pommette joining in.

Many scenes were shot inward several contest venues of the outcome – d’Ornano stadium, the Exposition Centre, the Prairie Racecourse, Le Pin National Stud – as well as inward the urban pith of Caen.

Defined every bit neo soul and funk, Happy is from the Despicable Me 2 movie soundtrack, as well as earned Williams an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. It lost to Let It Go from Frozen.

On the New Zealand Singles Chart, Happy debuted at release 11 on Dec 23, 2013. The adjacent calendar week it moved to release two. Then on Jan 6, 2014, it began a 12 calendar week consecutive reign inward the release 1 position, correct upwards until March 24, 2014. It thence dropped to release 2 for 1 week, thence spent a farther iii weeks at release one, bringing the total release of weeks at release 1 to 15, breaking the 36-year long tape for close weeks spent at release one, previously held by Boney M.’s Rivers of Babylon.

The vocal besides topped the charts of 22 other countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Espana as well as the United Kingdom. It has spent 12 weeks at release 1 inward Ireland, making it the 3rd vocal inward less than a yr to pass to a greater extent than than 7 weeks at release one, after Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines (which Pharrell besides featured on) and Avicii’s Wake Me Up!.

The vocal has already been parodied past times Weird Al Yankovic, inward an offering named Tacky.

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