Number 1's (Destiny's Child album) pure product and not feel wrong for doing so". Despite classifying its title as "misleading" and criticizing the new material, "Houston Chronicle"s editor Michael D. Clark wrote the album was "dolled up as beautiful and immaculate as" the members of the group and included their best singles from their four studio albums. John A. Hanson of Sputnikmusic felt that the greatest hits album was released "at the perfect time" as many of the songs were released a long time ago and "they've lost the overplayedness, but its soon enough that they still have some sort of relevance". He concluded for
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