compelling moments come from this uneasy interaction between irrational youth and ultra-rational mechanized society". Alexis Petridis from The Guardian called Dizzee "the most original and exciting artist to emerge from dance music in a decade". According to Acclaimed Music, Boy in da Corner was the third most ranked record on critics' year-end lists of the year's best albums and eventually the 369th most ranked on subsequent all-time lists. It won Dizzee Rascal the 2003 Mercury Prize, an annual music award for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland, making him the second rapper to win the award. In 2009, it was voted the sixth greatest album of all time by MTV Base. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. According to B.J. Steiner from Complex, "Boy in Da Corner brought grime—an influential subgenre of hip-hop birthed from the endless creativity of a bunch of kids from the United Kingdom—to the rest of the world and made a young Dizzee Rascal, his country's first international rap superstar." Commercial performance Boy in da Corner was released on 21 July 2003 in the United Kingdom by XL Recordings and 20 January 2004 in the United States by Matador Records. It reached number twenty-three on the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), having shipped 100,000 copies there. By 2004, it had sold over 250,000 copies worldwide, and over 58,000 copies in the US by 2007. The album was certified Platinum (300,000 copies) in July 2018, 15 years after its release, making it Dizzee's second Platinum selling album after Tongue n' Cheek. Legacy In 2016, Dizzee Rascal performed Boy in da Corner in full for the first time first in New York and then in east London at the Copper Box Arena. Contemporary critics praised the album's continuing influence on grime and ageless sound. In late 2016, a bootleg fan mixtape of rare recordings from the Boy in Da Corner era called Left in da Corner was released. Track listing All tracks were produced by Dizzee Rascal, except where noted. Notes "Stop Dat" features background vocals by Armour of N.A.S.T.Y. Crew "I Luv U" features additional vocals by Jeanine Jacques "Wot U On?" features additional vocals by Caramel "Seems 2 Be" features additional vocals by Claire Cottrell Sample credits "Fix Up, Look Sharp" includes a sample of "The