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
Number 1's (Destiny's Child album) Number 1's (Destiny's Child album) Following its release, "#1's" received positive reviews from music critics who praised the included material as the highlights of the group's music career. However, its title was dismissed as many of the songs included on the track listing hadn't reached the top position of a major record chart; it was later acknowledged by "Billboard" magazine that the title was only used as a marketing strategy. The compilation debuted and peaked on top of the US "Billboard" 200 album chart becoming the group's second album to reach number one in that country. It further peaked at