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"Pharrell Williams&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Happy&amp;#039; has become only the fourth single to go triple platinum in the UK in the past 20 years.  The song has sold 1.8 million copies and joins the elite crew of Will Young&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Evergreen&amp;#039;, Aqua&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Barbie Girl&amp;#039; and Elton John&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Candle in the Wind 1997&amp;#039;.       &amp;#039;Happy&amp;#039; is currently spending its 35th week in the UK singles chart after claiming the number one spot back in December.  The song, which featured on the soundtrack for Despicable Me 2, can attribute its triple platinum status partially to the introduction of streaming data.   Williams&amp;#039; hit has racked up over 25 million streams, which equates to 250,000 physical sales.  For a single to achieve platinum status it has to hit 600,000 sales, while for gold the figure drops to 400,000 and for silver it is 200,000. Colin Barlow, managing director of Pharrell&amp;#039;s music label RCA, said: &amp;quot;Pharrell is one of the most innovative producers, writers and performers to emerge from the world of music in the last 20 years.&amp;quot; Watch the music video for Aqua&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Barbie Girl&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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