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Pharrell signs to Sony
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 18 December 2013
Pharrell Williams has signed a new deal with Sony Music to release his second solo album next year, which will feature recent single ‘Happy’. The musician will release the new long player through Columbia in the US and RCA in the UK.
Announcing the deal, Columbia US’s CEO Rob Stringer said: “When we excitedly partnered with Pharrell in January of this year, we felt it was his time again. Since then, [Williams’ collaborations] ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘Get Lucky’ have defined pop music in 2013, and now we are preparing to launch Pharrell as a global solo superstar in 2014. ‘Happy’ is just the beginning”.
Pharrell’s last solo album, 2006’s ‘In My Mind’, was release through Universal/Interscope’s Star Trak imprint, the same label that released Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’. This deal aligns him with Daft Punk’s label, which is probably better.
