Initially on Apple Records, through EMI, "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" was released to considerable critical disdain in 1970, at a time when Ono was being widely blamed for disbanding The Beatles. "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" only hit the lower reaches of the album chart in the United States, failing to chart in the United Kingdom altogether. Notable exceptions were the estimations of "Billboard" who called it 'visionary' and critic Lester Bangs who supported it in "Rolling Stone". More recently, the album has been credited with having an influence on musicians grossly disproportionate to its sales and visibility, akin to that of The Velvet Underground. David Browne of "Entertainment Weekly" has credited the album with "launching a hundred or more female alternative rockers, like Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson of the B-52s to current thrashers like L7 and Courtney Love of Hole".