Eoghan Quigg was universally panned by
music critics. Simon Darnell of
MK News wrote: "If I told you this album was dreadful, not only would I be doing a huge disservice to the word dreadful, in fact I'd almost be praising the quality of the music... this set of songs is so mind-numbingly, spirit-crushingly dismal." Jon O'Brien of
AllMusic described the album as "bad karaoke", with deficient production values failing to hide Quigg's "limited ability" and "bum notes". In particular, multiple reviewers panned the cover of
Take That's "
Never Forget"; The album has been called the worst ever made. A
Popjustice reviewer predicted that it would garner a lasting legacy as such, having been "recorded so cheaply and with such little regard for the art of pop that the final product simply does not count as music."
Peter Robinson of
The Guardian called it "the worst album in the history of recorded sound" and an "album so bad that it would count as a new low for popular culture were it possible to class as either culture... or popular". ==Commercial performance==