"Makes Me Happy" is a song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 by an American

United States

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 artist/actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, Drake Bell

Drake Bell

Jared Drake Bell , better known as Drake Bell, is an American actor, comedian, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer, and occasional television director. After beginning his career as a child star in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he appeared on The Amanda Show and became well-known among young...

. The song is his second single from his second studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

, It's Only Time

It's Only Time

It's Only Time is the second studio album released by pop rock artist Drake Bell. It marks his first release on the major record label Universal Motown. His first album, Telegraph, was released independently in 2005. It's Only Time was released on December 5, 2006. There were two singles released...

.

It was heard on Drake's TEENick

TEENick

TEENick was a teen-oriented television programming block that aired on Nickelodeon. The block launched on 2001 and lasted until February 2, 2009. TEENick aired on Sunday nights from 6-9 p.m. ET/PT and, beginning in 2004, began to also air on Saturday nights from 8-10 p.m. ET/PT...

's original movie, Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp

Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp

Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp is the second movie in the Drake & Josh movie series based on the Drake & Josh TV show. It was the most watched television movie on Nickelodeon with an exact 7.80 million viewers,until iCarly: iGo to Japan broke the record. The record was won again by Merry...

. The fictional producers in the movie told Drake that it had approximately 300,000 Internet downloads in the US

United States

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. One of the producers told him, "You got a number one hit. There were so many downloads, it crashed our server

Server (computing)

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." In the movie, the song has some different lyrics than the album version, and is much shorter, and cuts off the ending without the humming.

The song was actually originally used as score music for the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101

Zoey 101

Zoey 101 is an American television series that ran from January 9, 2005 to May 2, 2008 starring Jamie Lynn Spears as teenager Zoey Brooks, produced for Nickelodeon and syndicated worldwide. The show was initially filmed at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, then at stages in Valencia,...

and some of it was sung in the Zoey 101

Zoey 101

Zoey 101 is an American television series that ran from January 9, 2005 to May 2, 2008 starring Jamie Lynn Spears as teenager Zoey Brooks, produced for Nickelodeon and syndicated worldwide. The show was initially filmed at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, then at stages in Valencia,...

 episode "Quinn's Alpaca" by Backhouse Mike, and he liked the way it sounded and made it a full length song.

This song was heard on Radio Disney

Radio Disney

Radio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, California and headquartered out of the Disney Channel headquarters on West Alameda Ave., from where it has been based since November 2008. Prior to that, the network was based in Dallas, Texas...

 and the XM satellite station, "XM Hitlist", as well as other radio stations. The song was finally released as a digital single to iTunes on October 16, 2007, in the form of a Radio Disney Edit that contains different lyrics than the album cut and also different than the cut used in Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp

Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp

Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp is the second movie in the Drake & Josh movie series based on the Drake & Josh TV show. It was the most watched television movie on Nickelodeon with an exact 7.80 million viewers,until iCarly: iGo to Japan broke the record. The record was won again by Merry...

.

Chart performance

The song managed to make the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...

 chart in August 2007, by debuting at #3 (equivalent to #103 if the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

). As a result, the song became Drake Bell's first charting single on any Billboard chart in his career. The song also made a brief appearance on the Billboard Pop 100

Pop 100

The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...

 chart, peaking at number 67.

Following the song's popularity and rotation on Radio Disney, Bell's record label finally released the song as a digital single (the Radio Disney Edit), the third version of the song to be released.

Chart (2008)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...	3
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs Hot Digital Songs The Hot Digital Songs chart ranks the best-selling digital singles in the United States, according to Billboard.Beginning in February 2005, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboards music single charts. It was decided to do so mainly because of the dramatic rise in popularity of...	45
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...	67