Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | A- |
| Entertainment Weekly | C+ |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| NME | 6/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 2.9/10 |
| PopMatters | 5/10 |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| The Village Voice | mixed |
The album debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling approximately 22,000 copies in its first week in the United States. By its third week of release it had sold 33,000 copies in total. The album has been viewed as one of the biggest commercial flops of 2010, having undersold Love's previous solo album, America's Sweetheart (also considered a commercial failure).
The album received generally mixed reviews from music critics. The score on review website Metacritic is 57 out of 100 indicating mixed or average reviews. Allmusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it 2 out of 5 stars and expressed a mixed response towards its "inward-leaning singer/songwriter roots", stating "it’s impossible to disguise the turgid tuneless folk-rock swirl at the heart of Nobody’s Daughter".
Other publications, such as Rolling Stone, had a lukewarm reception to the album, calling it "a noble effort" but not a "true success", while Q Magazine said, "The main impression left by Nobody's Daughter represents no great surprise: that for all her raging intelligence, Courtney Love is only as good as her collaborators." BBC Music called the album "rich and emotionally searing", and Billboard Magazine noted that ", Love sounds as self-assured as ever, sliding over syllables and hitting the emotional high notes Nobody's Daughter recalls the highlights of the band's critically acclaimed 1994 album, Live Through This, and shows that, as a band, Hole is not one bit damaged."
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