Early reviews have been positive. Pop music critics Trash Lounge gave the album four out of five stars, comparing the band favourably to other all-male groups. They said: "Strip away the commercial cynicism and, thanks to some of the world’s best pop producers, this is a record that teaches obvious rivals JLS

JLS

- Music :* JLS, an English boyband** JLS , debut album by JLS* JLS a Spanish Rock band based in Zaragoza , Spain formed in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic by lead Leo Susana.- Organizations :...

 and The Wanted

The Wanted

The Wanted are a British-Irish boy band based in London, England. The band consists of Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes. Their debut single, "All Time Low", was released in July 2010 and reached number one in the United Kingdom for one week...

 a lesson or two about throwing serious-faced-boybandism to the wind and just having some bloody fun."
Digital Spy

Digital Spy

Digital Spy is a British entertainment and media news website. According to Alexa Internet traffic statistics, as of February 2011, Digital Spy is the 93rd most popular website in the United Kingdom, with an overall Alexa ranking of 2,088....

gave the album four out of five stars. They said: "The overall result is an adorable as expected debut that also has a surprising amount of bite. Future boybands beware: this one means serious business."

The Daily Star

Daily Star

The Daily Star is a popular daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It first published on 2 November 1978, and was the first new national paper to be launched since the Daily Worker in 1930...

gave the album a 8 out of 10 rating. They said: "EASILY the hottest boyband of the year, they make the most of fame with an album that doesn’t take the easy route. Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter who is currently signed to Asylum / Atlantic Records. Sheeran broke through commercially in June 2011, when his debut single "The A Team" debuted at number 3 on the UK chart.-Early life:Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire to...

 and McFly

McFly

McFly are an English pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band consists of Tom Fletcher , Danny Jones , Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd . They were signed to the Island Records label from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label, Super Records...

 co-write, but the lads’ big personalities shine through on belting fun pop anthems to keep you dancing all night and into the next day." OK! Magazine had said "Sadly on the whole the album sounds a wee bit samey (ie boring), but the boys do chuck in a couple of smoochy slowies."

Chart performance

The album debuted at number three in Ireland. In the United Kingdom, the album entered the UK Album Chart at number two on selling 138,631 copies, the highest for a number two album in 2011. The album was kept off the top spot by the first week sales of Rihanna

Rihanna

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's Talk That Talk

Talk That Talk

Talk That Talk is the sixth studio album by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna and was released on November 18, 2011, through Def Jam Recordings. The lead single from the album, "We Found Love" featuring Calvin Harris, premiered on Capital FM radio on September 22, 2011, and was released on iTunes...

, which sold 163,819 copies.

Singles

• "What Makes You Beautiful
  What Makes You Beautiful
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  " was released as the album's lead single on 11 September 2011. The single debuted in Ireland at number one. It also debuted at number one in the UK with sales exceeding 150,000 copies, making it the fastest-selling single of 2011. The single also charted in Belgium, Netherlands, Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   and New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  .
• "Gotta Be You
  Gotta Be You (One Direction song)
  "Gotta Be You" is a song by British-Irish boy band One Direction from their debut studio album, Up All Night. It was released as the album's second single on 11 November 2011...
  
  " was released as the second single on 11 November 2011 and entered the UK Singles Chart
  UK Singles Chart
  The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
  
   at number 3. It also charted at number three on 17 November 2011 in the Irish Singles Charts.
• "One Thing" is set to be released as the third single from the album.

Track listing

• Credits adapted from album liner notes.

Charts

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Belgian Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...  (Flanders)	7
Belgian Albums Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...  (Wallonia)	65
Dutch Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...	7
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...	3
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...	2

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label
Ireland	18 November 2011	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Syco Music, Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
Netherlands
Sweden
Belgium	21 November 2011
United Kingdom
Australia	25 November 2011
New Zealand	28 November 2011
United States	20 March 2012