Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 69/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| The Guardian | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The Observer | |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.4/10) |
| PopMatters | (5/10) |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Yahoo! Music UK | |
| BBC | Favorable |
Memory Almost Full received positive reaction. At Metacritic, the album earned an average score of 69 based on 23 reviews from critics, which indicates "Generally favorable reviews". Many maintained the album had a very Wings-esque sound, as 1997's Flaming Pie was a Beatles-inspired project. Evan Serpick of Rolling Stone magazine also compared the medley of five songs in the second part of the album to the famous song suite in The Beatles' Abbey Road. This album was ranked number 22 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
In the United States, Memory Almost Full debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with about 161,000 copies sold, making it McCartney's highest-charting album there since 1997's Flaming Pie. It was ranked at #90 on the top-100 of the Billboard Year-end chart, becoming his first non-compilation album which entered there since 1983. While it was announced that copies of the album sold in the Starbucks coffee shops in the U.K. would not be counted by the Official UK Charts, because they are not registered in the copies counting system, Memory Almost Full still managed to hit #5 on the UK Album Charts. The album reportedly sold 105,000 copies in his homeland until it was given away with The Mail on Sunday for free.
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