Billboard reported on March 28 that the song's debut was driven largely by its 10 million official U.S. streams during its tracking week.

"'Nobody Like U' also continues an impressive year for Walt Disney Records on Billboard's charts, after having sent all eight non-score songs from the Encanto soundtrack onto the Hot 100," they also wrote.

"[3] Leanne Butkovic of Thrillist wrote an extensive review, calling 4*Town "the platonic ideal of a 2002 boy band crafted in 2022, a swoon-worthy and diverse quintet of teen idols, each given a backstory devised with boy-band archetypes clearly front of mind," continuing with, "4*Town so perfectly recreates the boy-band fervor of the late '90s and early 2000s.

"[7] To pitch the idea of having Billie and Finneas as producers, production created a scrapbook based on scenes of Mei and her fascination with 4*Town they had already developed for the film, at times putting cutouts of Eilish' and O'Connell's heads in place of the 4*Town members to show their appreciation for the pair.

"[11] Tracks from 4*Town appeared in multiple languages, some of which were performed by boy bands such as Da-iCE for Japanese[12] and W0LF(S) for Mandarin.