James Christopher Monger of
AllMusic incorrectly described the compilation as containing just four singles, along with twelve album tracks and two "new cuts, and a couple of remixes", but said that the album "dutifully sums up the hook-filled careers" of Fredriksson and Gessle, whom he called "Swedish pop masters". He also commented on the conjunctive release of this compilation with
The Rox Box/Roxette 86–06, writing: "Longtime fans who balked at the group's mammoth six-disc box set will find this concise and impossibly catchy compilation a whole lot easier to digest, both cerebrally and monetarily." Mike Schiller of
PopMatters gave the album a positive review, calling it "the best [Roxette] compilation out there for a pseudo-fan simply looking for all the radio tunes", and saying: "The first half of this collection is full of songs that any child of the late '80s will absolutely recognize, even if the immediate recollection is met with a bit of a blush." He also lamented the duo's drop in popularity in the United States in the late '90s, writing: "Given the latter half of the album, [that's] kind of a shame, because the straightforward, fairly rocking "
Sleeping in My Car", and the rather lovely "
Milk and Toast and Honey" (which sounds like
Dido before Dido was Dido) could have livened up the American pop landscape that had so unfortunately passed them by. Heck, even "
Stars" could have made some noise as the best "
Ray of Light" knockoff out there." Anders Nunstedt of Swedish publication
Expressen was more critical, complaining that the new songs were inferior to the unreleased tracks contained on prior compilations
The Ballad Hits (2002) and
The Pop Hits (2003), but said that, during their early '90s peak, Roxette "scored an ideal radio sound and made precise pop songs in a different class than the competition". ==Track listing==