Reviews, Accolades and Nominations
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| BBC | (positive) |
| Entertainment Weekly | A |
| The Guardian | 10/01/1995 |
| Kerrang! | 09/30/1995 |
| Music Week | 30/09/1995 |
| NME | (8/10) 09/23/1995 |
| Q | 10/01/1995 |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Select | 10/01/1995 |
| Spin | (7/10) 10/01/1995 |
Garbage received universal acclaim upon its release.Garbage was certified silver by the BPI on January 1, 1996 and gold one month later. Garbage became platinum-certified for UK sales of 300,000 on May 1. Garbage was certified gold by the RIAA on January 5 and certified platinum for one million US sales on July 30. The ARIA certified Garbage platinum, with sales of over 210,000 units.
Garbage had also been certified double platinum in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and gold in France, Denmark, Ireland and Singapore. Garbage was certified platinum in the UK for the second time on October 16, 1998, and in the US for the second time on February 24, 1999. It was also certified gold in the Philippines on June 20.
Album track "As Heaven is Wide" was included on the 1998 PS1 racing game Gran Turismo.
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