Shine (Estelle album)

The album features Kanye West, will.i.am, Kardinal Offishall, Mark Ronson, John Legend and Cee-Lo. The song "Life to Me" by Hi-Tek featuring Estelle as a guest artist was included on some editions as a bonus track. "Magnificent" was featured in the 2008 film 21, and the single "Pretty Please (Love Me)" was featured in the top-grossing romantic comedy Sex and the City: The Movie, and it is included on the second soundtrack of the film. A version of the album with additional bonus tracks and videos was made available through iTunes. The two bonus tracks are "Life to Me" (also on the UK CD single for "American Boy") and "I Wanna Live", plus the videos for "American Boy" and "Wait a Minute (Just a Touch)". Shine was nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize in 2008. ==Critical reception==

Shine was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 18 reviews. Jon Caramanica from The New York Times called Shine a "charming if sometimes blithe second album [with] a more modern antecedent: the decade-old Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Rolling Stones Jody Rosen fund that with Shine "Estelle offers a gritty alternative to R&B; divadom's strutting fembots." But [the] Yanks don't dilute Shines regional feel — this West London homegirl's perspective is etched in her husky singing, fleet—tongued rapping and wised—up lyrics. The music encompasses rugged modern R&B, dancehall, Sarah Vaughan-style jazz vocalese and, on "No Substitute Love," a reggae-soul-hip—hop torch song." Rodney Dugue, writing for The Village Voice felt that "Estelle turns Shine into a durable debut, pleasant and shrewd." ==Commercial performance==

Shine debuted and peaked at number six on the UK Albums Chart. It also reached number six on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. ==Track listing==

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United Kingdom • "Wait a Minute (Just a Touch)" • "American Boy" • "No Substitute Love" • "Pretty Please (Love Me)" • "Come Over" (Remix) Europe and Australia • "American Boy" • "No Substitute Love" • "Come Over" (Remix) North America • "American Boy" • "Come Over" (Remix) ==Charts==

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