Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ Breaks The Beatles’ Sales Record; Says He’s Not A Feminist Because ‘I’m A Man’

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Pharrell Williams' 'Happy' song is breaking record sales. 'Happy' broke through the one million copies sales threshold, earning Williams his third million-selling UK single in less than a year according to the Daily Mail. That's a sales feat that only The Beatles have previously achieved. His other two million hit songs are 'Blurred Lines' (with Robin Thicke, TI) and 'Get Lucky' (with Daft Punk).

Pharrell told OfficialCharts.com, "I am beyond grateful for the amount of love and support I've received in response to Happy - it is overwhelming. I've always respected the great taste of the UK, and I'm honoured to have my music embraced in such a positive way. I am so thankful."

On this week's chart, "Happy" is at #12 after a whopping 27 weeks in the charts. "Marilyn Monroe," also off of Williams' album GIRL, sits at #28.

Williams recently spoke with reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy from the British public-service broadcaster Channel 4 about the controversy around "Blurred Lines" and that the song contained lines that were "rapey."

Williams said, "I don't know where [a man] forcing himself and a woman's right to say no was ever addressed in that song. Is it sexually suggestive when a car salesman says to a person who's trying to buy a car, 'I know you want it'?"

Guru-Murthy responded that the phrase is often used in a "sexual context."

Williams replied, "Okay, cool. But does that make it off-limits for me to use in a song, especially when the overarching context is that there are good women who also have bad thoughts? If a good woman can have sexual thoughts, is it wrong for a man to have a correct guess that a woman might want something?"

When Williams was asked by Guru-Murthy whether he was a feminist, he said, "I've been asked, am I a feminist? I don't think it's possible for me to be that. I'm a man. It makes sense up until a certain point. But what I do is -- I do support feminists. I do think there's injustices. There are inequalities that need to be addressed."

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