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Official Chart Flashback 2006: Lily Allen becomes a voice of her generation as Smile hits Number 1

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16 years is quite a long time, but it's done nothing to dull the shine of Lily Allen's timeless debut single Smile, which first reached Number 1 on the UK's Official Singles Chart this week in 2006.

An introduction to a pop singer who would become, to many, a voice of their generation, Smile - much like Lily herself - is self-assured, intelligent and entirely hilarious.

Smile's rise to the top of the Official Singles Chart also helped to annoint Lily to many as the reigning Queen of MySpace - the social media platform that, like the TikTok of today, proved to be a breeding ground for pop stars like Lily, Kate Nash and Arctic Monkeys, all of whom were using the internet to connect to as wide an audience as possible, straight out of the gate.

But the single's success was not guaranteed. Signing to Warner subsidiary Parlophone in a five album deal for just £25,000, Lily was left much to her own devices in her early days, her label's attention taken up by the likes of Coldplay and Gorillaz.

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