Just Enough Education to Perform until finally disappearing from the top 100. In 2001 it was the 4th biggest selling album in the UK, and in 2002 it was the 24th biggest selling album in the UK, as well as being the 39th biggest selling album of the decade. It went on to be certified 5× platinum in the UK. As of 2009 it has sold 83,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. In France it has sold 43,700 copies. Manchester United and England forward Wayne Rooney has the album's name tattooed in a design on his right forearm. Rooney is a
Just Enough Education to Perform average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68 based on 10 reviews. Writing in "Observer Music Monthly", Tony Heyman commented on the title of the album, claiming "regardless of their level of education, the Stereophonics clearly have no performing qualities whatsoever. If they are suggesting a connection between formal education and musical ability, they must be four illiterate morons who were expelled from playschool for being too thick." Heyman launched a rant against the group, referring to the album as "musical excrement, scooped unhygienically from a poorly-maintained squat toilet in