tijdloze.rocks

"Don't Worry, Be Happy" is een nummer van de Amerikaanse muzikant Bobby McFerrin. Het is het eerste a capellanummer dat de eerste plaats bereikte in de Billboard Hot 100, een positie die het twee weken hield. Alle geluiden in het nummer zijn gemaakt door McFerrin, die geen instrumenten gebruikte. In een interview met USA Weekend beschreef McFerrin het nummer als: "een vrij nette filosofie in vier woorden." Don't Worry, Be Happy won in 1989 drie Grammy Awards: Best Song of the Year, Best Record of the Year en Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

Daarnaast werd Don't Worry, Be Happy een hit in onder andere Nederland, Vlaanderen en Duitsland.

"Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a 1988 song by Bobby McFerrin, released as the first single from his album Simple Pleasures (1988). It was the first a cappella song to reach number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. Released in conjunction with the film Cocktail, the song peaked at number-one on September 24, 1988, displacing "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses.

The song also peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart and number seven on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. It hit number one in Australia and stayed there for 7 weeks. It was also a hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number two during its fifth week on the UK Singles Chart. In Canada, the song reached number one in its eighth week. One critic noted it as a "formula for facing life's trials".

At the 1989 Grammy Awards, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" won the awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

In 2024, the single was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".