Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
Christgau's Consumer Guide	C+
Entertainment Weekly	B
Los Angeles Times
NME	8/10
Q
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Select	5/5

Wish is the ninth studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released on 21 April 1992 through record label Fiction in the UK and Elektra in the US.

The record is the final studio album featuring Boris Williams and the first featuring Perry Bamonte, as well as being the last album featuring Porl Thompson for sixteen years.

Whilst retaining the sound and mood of Disintegration (1989) on some tracks, Wish often found the band moving into more of a dream pop direction.

The album's lead single was "High", released on 16 March 1992. The single peaked at number eight in the UK Singles Chart, forty-two in the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. The album's second single, "Friday I'm in Love", released on 11 May 1992, became one of the band's most popular songs – reaching number six in the UK Singles Chart and number eighteen in the Billboard Hot 100, and number one in the Modern Rock Tracks. The final single was for "A Letter to Elise", going at number twenty-eight in the UK and 2 in the Modern Rock Tracks.

Wish was released on 21 April. It received positive reviews upon release, including a four-star review in Rolling Stone that stated: "For its cult of millions, the Cure offers the only kind of optimism that makes sense."Wish was also the band's overall highest charting album, and most commercially successful in the band's career, given its debut at number one in the UK and number two in the United States, where it sold more than 1.2 million copies.Wish was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1993.

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