ALRIGHT, STILL

'''Alright, Still''' is the debut album by the British Pop, Ska singer Lily Allen, released in the UK on July 17 2006 by Regal Zonophone Records (see 2006 in British music). The album title is taken from subcultural London slang and is referred to in a lyric in the song "Knock 'Em Out". It was a MySpace featured album, which meant that fans could listen to it before it was released.
There are two censored songs on the explicit edition of the album; the word 'cunt' was removed from "Friday Night", and the monologue at the end of "Knock 'Em Out" is shortened, removing references to AIDS and Vagisil, as well as a use of the word shit.
The album ended 2006 as the twenty-seventh best selling album in the UK, with sales over 523,000 copies. It has currently sold approximately 750,000 in the UK.
On the week ending on January 28, 2007, British artists made chart history taking all Top 10 places in the Official UK Albums chart for the first time since the chart was established in 1956, according to British record labels trade association the BPI; the album "Alright, Still" was number-nine that week.^[1]
The album was released by Regal Records in the United Kingdom, Toshiba-EMI in Japan, Capitol Records in the United States, and by other imprints of EMI internationally.
The mastering of the album has been criticised, with many people considering it to be distorted^[2]. ''Alright, Still'' is cited as a classic example of the music industry's loudness war.

Contents

Track listing

Singles

Charts

Release details

References

Track listing

# "Smile" (Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Jackie Mittoo) – 3:17
# "Knock 'Em Out" (Allen, Babalola, Earl King, Lewis) – 2:53
# "LDN" (Allen, Babalola, Lewis, Tommy McCook) – 3:10
# "Everything's Just Wonderful" (Allen, Greg Kurstin) – 3:28
# "Not Big" (Allen, Kurstin) – 3:16
# "Friday Night" (Allen, Johnny Bull, Pablo Cook) – 3:06
# "Shame for You" (Allen, Blair MacKichan) – 4:06
# "Littlest Things" (Allen, Pierre Bachelet, Mark Ronson, Hervé Roy) – 3:02
# "Take What You Take" (Allen, Babalola, Lewis) – 4:06
# "Friend of Mine" (Allen, Babalola, O'Kelly Isley, Ernest Isley, Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Lewis) – 3:57
# "Alfie" (Allen, Kurstin) – 2:46

★ 'U.S. edition'

12. "Nan You're a Window Shopper" (Allen, Babalola, Lewis) - 2:58


13. "Smile (Mark Ronson Version Revisited)" - 5:44

Singles

# "Smile"(July 3 2006) UK #1
# "LDN" (September 25 2006) UK #6
# "Littlest Things" (December 11 2006) UK #21
# "Shame for You"/"Alfie" (March 5 2007) UK #15

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak position UK Albums chart 2 Ireland Albums chart 6 Australian Albums Chart[3] 7 Norway Albums chart 15 U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 20 Canada Albums chart 21 New Zealand Albums chart 22 Japan Albums chart 37 Sweden Albums chart 43 France Albums chart 47 Swiss Albums chart 53

Chart Certification Sales Australia ARIA Gold[4] 35,000+ New Zealand RIANZ Gold 7,500+ UK BPI 2x platinum[5] 815,000 U.S, RIAA — 390,702 Worldwide sales — 1,500,000

Release details

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Europe	July 14, 2006	EMI	CD
United Kingdom	July 17, 2006	EMI, Regal Zonophone Records	CD	0946 3 67028 2 7
Mexico[6]	July 24, 2006	EMI	CD
Australia	July 29, 2006	Capitol Records	CD
Canada	September 19, 2006	EMI	CD
Japan[7]	October 4, 2006	Toshiba-EMI	CD	TOCP-66625
United States	January 30, 2007	Capitol Records	CD	CDP 0946 3 75466 2 8

References

1. BPI Official Website, UK talent celebrates first all-British Top 10 in UK chart history
2. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1992325,00.html
3. "Alright, Still - Australian chart history". ''Australian-charts.com''. Retrieved June 17 2007.
4. "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2006 Albums". ''ARIA''. Retrieved June 17 2007.
5. "BPI Certification". ''BPI''. Retrieved June 17 2007.
6. MixUp Music Stores in Mexico
7. Lily Allen RELEASE