Ass peaked at number 122 on the
Billboard 200 in the US. The single "
Apple of My Eye" only peaked at number 102 on
Billboards "Bubbling Under" chart in America. The release of
Ass caused the band's first album for
Warner Bros. to be delayed. After the album was deleted from the Apple catalog a large number of heavily discounted copies appeared in
cut-out bins at US record stores during the 1970s. The original CD version released in the 1990s is now rare because it was re-released only in a few countries (UK, Canada, and Japan) for a limited period. The album was remastered and re-released in 2010. A few weeks prior to the 1990s CD release a few Abbey Road Studios mastered C90 cassettes of
Ass were distributed to a handful of music industry people. It appears from the track listing on these cassettes that
Ass was originally planned to have five bonus tracks: "Dreaming" (Molland), "Piano Red" (Ham), "Rock & Roll" (Evans), "Regular" (Molland) and "Do You Mind" (Molland). This idea was clearly scrapped, as "Do You Mind" was the only one included on that version of the album. (A different version of that song appeared on the 2010 remaster.)
Ass was the Apple Records label's last original album release that was not by an ex-Beatle. From then on, only the Beatles as solo artists were left to release records on the Apple label. ==Track listing==