Heap was one of the artists featured in an episode of the 2016 PBS docuseries Soundbreaking and she narrated and composed music for the 2016 documentary Crossing Bhutan , which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival . Also in 2016, she was commissioned by French advertising agency BETC and British company Cow & Gate , in collaboration with researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London , to help write a song which would be proven to “make babies happy”, which was eventually titled “The Happy Song”. The track was engineered through several months of scientific testing on babies, also incorporating sounds from a survey of UK parents about which noises made their babies happy, and was released in October 2016. Its animated music video was released in December 2019 and had 62 million views on YouTube by 2024. “The Happy Song” was certified silver in the UK by the BPI and certified gold in the US, with Heap identifying it in 2019 as her second most commercially successfully song after “Hide and Seek”.
featured in PBS docuseries Soundbreaking
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