Alright, Still

Alright, Still is the debut studio album by English recording artist Lily Allen. It was released on the 14th July 2006 and went triple platinum. Alright, Still has sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide. 
==BACKGROUND==
Allen's manager introduced her to production duo Future Cut in 2004. They worked in a small studio in the basement of a Manchester office building. In 2005, Allen was signed to Regal Records; the label gave her £25,000 to produce an album, though they were unable to provide much support for it due to their preoccupation with other releases such as English band Coldplay's X&Y and virtual band Gorillaz' Demon Days.
Allen created an account on Myspace and began posting demos in November 2005. The demos attracted thousands of listeners, and 500 limited edition 7" vinyl singles of one of the demos, a song titled "LDN", were rush-released and sold for as much as £40. Allen also produced two mixtapes — My First Mixtape and My Second Mixtape — to promote her work; they included tracks by the band Creedence Clearwater Revival, and rapper Dizzee Rascal, and Ludacris. As she accumulated tens of thousands of MySpace friends, The Observer Music Monthly (OMM), a magazine published in The Observer, took interest. Few people outside of her label's A&R department had heard of Allen, so the label were slow in responding to publications who wanted to report about her.
In March 2006, OMM published an article about Allen's success through MySpace, and she received her first major mainstream coverage appearing in the magazine's cover story two months later. The popularity of her songs convinced her label to allow her more creative control over the album and to use some of the songs that she had written instead of attempting to work with mainstream producers. Allen found herself distracted by the publicity, so to focus on finishing the album, she travelled to the United States to work with producers Greg Kurstin and Mark Ronson. There, she was able to complete the second half of the album in approximately two weeks.
The album's title is used in a line from the second track, "Knock 'Em Out": "You look alright still, yeah what's your name?" Allen borrowed the phrase from a slang term that her brother Alfie Owen-Allen and his friends used as a synonym for cool. She stated that she liked Albert Einstein's aphorism "Nothing changes until something moves" and the idea that "everything is [alright] as long as it's still".
==SINGLES==
# "Smile"
# "LDN"
# "Littlest Things"
# "Alfie"
# "Shame For You"
===PROMOTIONAL SINGLES===
# "Cheryl Tweedy"
# "Nan You're A Window Shopper"
==TRACK LISTING==
===STANDARD EDITION===
No.	Title 	Writer 	Length
1 	"Smile" 	Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Jackie Mittoo, Clement Dodd 	3:17
2 	"Knock 'Em Out" 	Allen, Babalola, Lewis, Earl King 	2:54
3 	"LDN" 	Allen, Arthur "Duke" Reid, Babalola, Lewis 	3:11
4 	"Everything's Just Wonderful"	Allen, Greg Kurstin 	3:29
5 	"Not Big" 	Allen, Kurstin 	3:17
6 	"Friday Night" 	Allen, Pablo Cook, Jonny Bull 	3:07
7 	"Shame For You" 	Allen, Blair Mackichan, Mittoo 	4:06
8 	"Littlest Things" 	Allen, Mark Ronson, Pierre Bachelet, Hervé Roy 	3:02
9 	"Take What You Take" 	Allen, Lewis, Babalola 	4:06
10 	"Friend of Mine" 	Allen, Babalola, Lewis, O'Kelly Isley, Ernest Isley, Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper	3:56
11 	"Alfie" 	Allen, Kurstin 	2:46
===DELUXE EDITION BONUS TRACKS===
No.	Title 	Writer 	Length
12 	"Mr. Blue Sky" 	Jeff Lynne 	3:40
13 	"Cheryl Tweedy" 	Allen, Karen Poole, Dom Carey 	3:15
14 	"Nan You're A Window Shopper" 	Allen, Babalola, Lewis 	2:58
15 	"Blank Expression" 	Jerry Dammers, The Specials 	2:30
16 	"Absolutely Nothing" 	Allen, Karen Poole 	4:02
17 	"U Killed It" 	Allen, Kurstin 	4:24
18 	"Everybody's Changing" 	Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes 	2:40
19 	"Naïve" 	Paul Jarred, Hugh Harris, Luke Pritchard, Max Rafferty 	3:46
20 	"Smile" (Mark Ronson Version revisited)	Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Jackie Mittoo, Clement Dodd	3:13
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