adminReuters — American singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams seized top spot in Britain’s singles chart on Sunday with his track “Happy”, ousting talent show winner Sam Bailey after only a week at Number 1. The song, which features in the soundtrack to “Despicable Me 2”, achieved sales of nearly 107,000 copies in the past week, the Official Charts Company said, handing Williams his third British Number 1 this year.
Williams is set to release his second solo album early next year, the company added, noting that the as yet untitled album would be his follow-up to 2006’s “In My Mind”, which peaked at Number 7 in the British charts.
Sales of “Happy” pushed Christmas Number 1 “Skyscraper”, by former prison guard Bailey, winner of British talent show “The X-Factor”, into second place.
In the albums chart, British singer Robbie Williams held on to the Number 1 spot with “Swings Both Ways”, ahead of Gary Barlow’s “Since I Saw You Last”, which climbed one place to Number 2.
Boy band One Direction’s “Midnight Memories” slipped one place to Number 3.
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