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Pharrell Williams is the first voice you hear on one of the biggest songs of the 2010s, and his name has never been on the cover. The song is "Havana" by Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug, released August 3, 2017. It began in a session with Cabello, producer Frank Dukes, Ali Tamposi and Andrew Watt; Tamposi told Billboard that Dukes played a piano loop and the hook "came out like it had been written before," so fast they thought it was too easy. Dukes then brought in Starrah, Brian Lee, Pharrell Williams, Louis Bell and Kaan Gunesberk to finish it. The liner notes of the album Camila credit Pharrell with background vocals, lyric sheets tag the opening "hey" and the chorus ad libs to him, and the CD single carries the fine print "Pharrell Williams appears courtesy of I Am Other/Columbia." Ten writers are credited and two are named Williams: Jeffery Williams, who is Young Thug and got the feature, and Pharrell. Cabello's debut solo single "Crying in the Club" had peaked at No. 47. Dukes later tweeted that "label heads and the people at radio told us this was not a hit." Cabello told BBC Radio 1 that everybody told her it shouldn't be a single, and The Guardian reported her management wanted "OMG" with Quavo instead, so she suggested putting both out the same day. "Havana" arrived as a promotional single, debuted at No. 99 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 1 in its 23rd week, on the chart dated January 27, 2018, the first for both Cabello and Young Thug. In June 2018 it became Spotify's most streamed song ever by a solo female artist, and IFPI named it the best selling digital single in the world for 2018 at 19 million units, ahead of Drake's "God's Plan." IFPI's top single of 2013 was "Blurred Lines" and of 2014 was "Happy," which puts Pharrell's voice on three of six. On February 10, 2019, Cabello opened the 61st Grammy Awards with Young Thug, Ricky Martin, J Balvin and Arturo Sandoval; the same night Pharrell won Producer of the Year. The song's only Grammy nomination went to "Havana (Live)," a solo recording. This is the original, not the Daddy Yankee remix from November 2017. So did the label get "Havana" wrong, or did Camila Cabello just get lucky? #pharrellwilliams #pharrell #camilacabello #camillacabello #havana

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