Pharrell Williams discography July 2013, only 137 singles in UK chart history had achieved one million sales in the UK - that month Williams scored two million-sellers with "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines". In November 2013, Williams released the first 24-hour music video to his "Despicable Me 2" collaboration song, "Happy". Guest appearances included Magic Johnson, Steve Carell, Jimmy Kimmel, Jamie Foxx, Steve Martin, Odd Future, Miranda Cosgrove, Janelle Monáe, and many others. In December 2013, a press release from Columbia Records announced that Williams had signed a contract with the label and would be releasing an album in 2014, featuring the single
Happy (Pharrell Williams song) including all 360 four-minute segments. Williams himself appears 24 times in the day-long video, once at the start of each hour. There are a number of celebrity cameos in the video, including Whit Hertford, Kelly Osbourne, Rob Zabrecky, Magic Johnson, Urijah Faber, Sérgio Mendes, Jimmy Kimmel, Odd Future, Steve Carell (who plays Gru in "Despicable Me 2"), Jamie Foxx, Ana Ortiz, Miranda Cosgrove (who plays Margo in "Despicable Me 2"), Kazuchika Okada, Gavin DeGraw and JoJo. The minions from "Despicable Me 2" make several appearances throughout the film, including one scene at 3:00 am, in which Pharrell Williams and the