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About the record

Allen announced through her MySpace blog that her first official single would be "Smile", taken from her debut album entitled, Alright, Still. The track was sent to radio a few weeks later, and was added to radio playlists immediately. The music video premiered in early June on all mainstream music channels in the UK. Allen also appeared on the cover of The Observer Music Monthly as well as performing on UK TV shows, such as Top of The Pops. MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... Alright, Still is the debut album by the British Pop singer Lily Allen, released in the UK on July 17, 2006 by Regal Zonophone Records (see 2006 in British music). ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... The Observer Music Monthly (or OMM) is a respected monthly music magazine found in the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. ... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...

"Smile" was released to iTunes UK on 26 June 2006, ahead of the physical CD release on 3 July. It spent most of its first week at number 1 on the iTunes chart before entering at number 13 in the Official UK Top 40. The physical single is backed by two B-sides including Cheryl Tweedy, a track which generated publicity (Allen states she wishes she looked like the Girls Aloud member in the lyrics). The single rose to number one in the UK on 9 July, selling 39,501 copies in that week. It amassed 2 weeks at the number one spot selling a further 35,228 copies, falling to number four in its fourth week (the same week the album was released). The single ended 2006 as the UK's eleventh best selling single of the year. The single peaked at number fourty-nine in the US, mainly due to digital sales. ^[1] This article is about the iTunes application. ... is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ... Cheryl Tweedy Cheryl Ann Tweedy (born 30 June 1983 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) is an English singer and member of the group Girls Aloud. ... Girls Aloud are a Smash Hits Poll Winners, TMF award-winning and BRIT Award-nominated British girl group created on ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

There is a remix ft. Robin Thicke and Samantha Jade to be released on August 16, 2007.

In the April 2007 issue of FourFourTwo it is suggested that the song is about Ashley Cole. This would mean "the girl next door" is a personifying metaphor of Chelsea and it would also explain having Cheryl Tweedy on the B side. FourFourTwo is a football (soccer) magazine published by Haymarket. ... Ashley Donovan Cole (born 20 December 1980, Whitechapel, London, England) is an English footballer of Barbadian descent. ... Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously also known as the Pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in west London. ...

Lily Allen also recorded a Simlish version of "Smile" for The Sims 2. Simlish is a fictional language featured in Maxis Sim series of games. ... [1][2] The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. ...

Music video

The music video, directed by Sophie Muller (who also directed the video of previous UK number-one "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira), shows Lily getting revenge on an ex-boyfriend who cheated on her. She pays some thugs to beat him up, then takes him to a cafe to console him while the thugs trash his apartment and scratch his vinyl records. At the cafe, she puts laxatives in his coffee so he gets diarrhea. Later, as a result of the laxitives, he has to come to her house to use the toilet as his has been blocked by the thugs. The female thug in the video is played by performer/dancer/singer Tanya Billey, who attended the esteemed BRIT school of performing arts. The video finishes with Lily walking down the street smiling while the ex-boyfriend is DJing in a nightclub only to find that all his vinyl records have been scratched. Lily commented in an interview that the video was banned on MTV because it contained mugging. "I got really offended when my single, Smile, got banned from MTV in the U.K. because it had the word fuck in it!" ^{[citation needed]} It also has a profanity in its first verse; the offending lyric 'But you were fucking that girl next door' is censored in some releases, but present in others. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... |- ! style=background: khaki; colspan=3 | Wyclef Jean singles chronology |- style=text-align: center; font-size: 0. ... This biographical article needs additional references for verification. ... A thug is someone who went through alot of things throughout their lives. ... The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations in the United States, first enacted by Congress in 1975, exist to regulate and improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks (trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) sold in the US. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) is the sales weighted... 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... A laxative is a preparation used for the purpose of encouraging defecation, or the elimination of feces. ... A cup of coffee. ... Types 5-7 on the Bristol Stool Chart are often associated with diarrhea Diarrhea (in American English) or diarrhoea (in British English) is a condition in which the sufferer has frequent watery, loose bowel movements (from the Greek word διάρροια; literally meaning through-flowing). Acute infectious diarrhea is a common cause... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ...

Promotion

On the day of the official release of Smile, Allen performed and did an exclusive record signing at private record store Sister Ray in Soho, London. She performed four songs from her debut album Alright, Still: "LDN", "Knock 'Em Out," "Littlest Things" and "Smile," followed by the signing. Alright, Still is the debut album by the British Pop singer Lily Allen, released in the UK on July 17, 2006 by Regal Zonophone Records (see 2006 in British music). ...

Earlier the same day, Allen performed on the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge with DJ Jo Whiley, performing an acoustic version of "Smile," and a cover of The Kooks' Naïve, to apologise for insulting them via her Myspace blog. This page redirects from Radio 1. See Radio 1 (disambiguation). ... The Live Lounge is a segment of The Jo Whiley Show, on the British radio station BBC Radio 1. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kooks, see Donna Kossy. ... Naïve is a song by British post-punk rock band The Kooks and is featured on their debut album, Inside In/Inside Out. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ...

Also, Allen re-recorded the song in "Simlish", the language used on the world famous Sims games. The Simlish version was used in the Sims expansion pack The Sims 2: Seasons,^[2] where Allen will also have her own character.
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At the 2007 South By Southwest music festival, Allen said she was "so sick of this song" before performing it.^[3] Downtown Austin, Texas, where SXSW is held each spring Bloc Party performing at Stubbs BBQ in 2007 Carrie Rodriguez, a SXSW 2007 performer Morrissey at SXSW 2006 South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that have taken place every spring in...

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Smile".

• Note: There is also a recorded version of Smile in Simlish for The Sims available on iTunes.

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Charts

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References

1. ^ Top 40 Singles of 2006, from BBC Radio 1 website
2. ^ Smile in Simlish. Sims 2. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
3. ^ Smile Songfacts. Songfacts. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
4. ^ "Smile - chart positions". MusicSquare. Retrieved February 11, 2007.
5. ^ "Lily Allen - Artist Chart History". All Music Guide. Retrieved February 7, 2007.

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External links

• Complete lyrics to Lily Allen's "Smile"
• Music video for "Smile" at YouTube
• Music video for Simlish re-recording of "Smile" at YouTube