Planet Jedward is the debut studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Irish

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

 pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 duo Jedward

Jedward

John Paul Henry Daniel Richard Grimes and Edward Peter Anthony Kevin Patrick Grimes are an Irish hip pop duo. They are identical twins and perform under the name Jedward...

. The album was released on July 16, 2010.

Background

The album was released via Absolute Records, a minor subsidiary of the Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group

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 label. Despite this, the twins' debut single, "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)

Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)

"Under Pressure " is the debut single by Irish pop duo Jedward. The song is a mashup of "Under Pressure", originally recorded in 1981 by Queen and David Bowie, and "Ice Ice Baby", recorded by Vanilla Ice in 1989. Vanilla Ice also provides vocals for the track...

", was released by Sony Music. The album itself consists entirely of cover versions. Following the duo's Eurovision success in May 2011, the album was issued across Europe and Asia in July, this time containing a mixture of tracks from Planet Jedward and previously unheard tracks from the duo's second studio album, Victory

Victory (Jedward album)

Victory is the second album by Irish pop duo Jedward. The album was released on August 5, 2011 in Ireland and on August 15, 2011 in the United Kingdom.-Background:Jedward began recording tracks for the album in January 2011...

. This version of the album also included their Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Eurovision Song Contest 2011

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 entry, "Lipstick

Lipstick (Jedward song)

"Lipstick" is the third single released by Irish pop duo Jedward. It is the first song released from their second studio album, Victory. The song also represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. "Lipstick" was selected on 11 February 2011, following the...

". In 2011, thealbum was certified double platinum in Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, meaning that between 30,000 and 44,999 copies had been sold in the country as of the date of the certification.

Critical reception

The album was universally panned by critics. The Guardian

The Guardian

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's Caroline Sullivan gave it one out of five stars writing that "it would be stretching a point to say I'd ever want to hear it again." Virgin Media

Virgin Media

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 gave zero out of five stars, writing that "Worst (or best depending on your cheese tolerance) of all are the occasional snatches of painfully wooden dialogue before the layers of auto-tuned backing vocalists kick in." The Scotsman

The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....

gave the album just two stars, calling it "a 35-minute comedy of errors". Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music

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 gave the album a 3/10 score saying the album "insults its target audience of reality TV fans and music-loving kids." Sputnikmusic

Sputnikmusic

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 gave the album a score of 1.0 out of 6, calling Jedward "totally and utterly talentless" and the album "the kind of garbage that’s fun when your (sic) about five." Digital Spy

Digital Spy

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 gave the album one out of five stars, saying it "contains more crimes against music than the combined discographies of The Cheeky Girls

The Cheeky Girls

The Cheeky Girls are a pop duo consisting of twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia, from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, but based in Britain. After appearing as auditionees in Popstars: The Rivals, they achieved success in the charts with four top ten hits between 2002 and 2004...

, Phil Collins

Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....

 and Lou Bega

Lou Bega

David Lubega , also known as Lou Bega, is a German musician of Italian and Ugandan descent, and is famous for his song "Mambo No. 5 ". This song is a remake of the Perez Prado instrumental from 1949...

", full of "horrible sound effects, vocal echoes and robotic-sounding guitars trampling over millions of music fans' happy memories."

Tracklisting

Chart performance

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	1
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	17
Chart (2011)	Peak position
Austrian Albums Chart IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland...	53
German Albums Chart	51
Swedish Album Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	15