It has been certified four times platinum in the UK, where it was the sixth best-selling album of 2009.

In the UK, the band beat Robbie Williams to the number-one spot on 15 November 2009.

JLS beat Williams to the top spot by a margin of less than 1%[2] First week sales were reported to be more than 230,000 copies;[3] it was later revealed that JLS had first-week sales of 239,643,[4] compared to 238,126 for Reality Killed the Video Star, meaning that Williams had lost out by just 1,517 copies, or 0.64%.

The album has sold 1.4 million copies in total in the UK as of December 2012.

[9] The album received generally negative reviews from critics on release.