The album was met with positive reviews from music critics. Ramiro Burr of the
San Antonio Express-News compared
Ones to the greatest hits releases of
Buddy Holly,
Janis Joplin and
Jimi Hendrix. Jon O'Brien of
AllMusic noticed that the company intentionally wanted to focus on Selena's career between 1990 and 1995, ignoring her 1989 debut album. The
iTunes editorial team found
Ones as a showcase of the singer's versatile
soprano voice that inspires one to dance or be brought with emotion. They noted a sense of intonation, "spine-chilling"
vibrato, and coherency throughout the album. Jessica Roiz of
Billboard found
Ones to have contained several of the singer's most popular singles. Roiz listed several songs included in
Ones on her list of songs recorded by Selena that are meant to help those who are going through a breakup.
Ones was marketed through
TV advertisements as a replacement to Selena's previous works, which were
removed from distribution. The album's release coincided with
VH1's
Behind the Music episode of Selena, which first aired on October 2, 2002.
Ones debuted at number four on the US
Billboard Top Latin Albums and
Latin Pop Albums chart on the week ending October 19, 2002, the highest-debuting album that week. The album debuted at number 162 on the
Billboard 200 chart, before peaking at number 159 on the week ending November 9, 2002. In a year-end report compiled by
Nielsen SoundScan,
Ones was named with other Latin music albums, to have end the slight decline in Latin music sales that plagued the United States in the first and second quarters of 2002. The recording was nominated for the Latin Greatest Hits Album of the Year at the
2003 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Ones ended 2003 as the 13th best-selling Latin album and ninth best-selling Latin pop album of the year.
Ones reentered the Top Latin Albums chart the week of February 7, 2004 at number 74 before slipping off and reentering the chart the week of March 13 at number 65. On the chart's April 17, 2004 list,
Ones rose to number 11, receiving the highest percentage gains for an album that week, which was followed by the singer's ninth anniversary of her death. The album remained on the chart until May 29, 2004.
Ones was removed from
Billboards Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums chart and began charting on the Top Latin Catalog Albums chart. On the April 19, 2009 chart,
Ones rose 51-percent in sales and climbed 61-percent to number three on the Top Latin Catalog Albums chart, which was followed by the singer's 14th anniversary of her death.
Ones ended up as the 88th best-selling Latin album of the 2000s decade. On October 14, 2016,
Ones was released on a limited edition purple
double disc vinyl. The limited edition helped
Ones debut and peak at number 70 on the
Top Album Sales and number four on the
Vinyl Albums chart.
Ones also debuted on the
Top Pop Catalog Albums chart, peaking at number seven. Following another revision to its Latin albums charts,
Billboard removed its two-decade-long ban of catalog albums in its chart beginning with the February 11, 2017 list;
Ones re-entered the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums chart after 15 years. After its revision,
Ones claimed the number one position on the Latin Pop Albums chart within three weeks, dethroning
CNCO's
Primera Cita (2016). The album remained atop the Latin Pop Albums chart for six consecutive weeks and was displaced by
Alejandro Fernandez' album
Rompiendo Fronteras (2017) on April 8, 2017. Before its revision, Nielsen SoundScan reported that
Ones sold 25,000 units in 2016; the seventh best-selling Latin album of the year,
Ones was the best-selling Latin album by a woman in 2016. In 2017's mid-year report,
Ones sold 42,000
album-equivalent units, while 13,000 were
pure album sales, ranking as the seventh best-selling Latin album. In 2018's mid-year report,
Ones sold 8,000 units and ranked as the tenth best-selling Latin album. On July 12, 2018,
Ones reached number one on iTunes' Latin Albums chart, out-selling living musicians recent releases including
Maluma's
F.A.M.E. (2018),
J Balvin's
Vibras (2018),
Ozuna's
Odisea (2017), and
Shakira's
El Dorado (2017). The event was celebrated on the singer's official Facebook page while
Billboard noticed that the album had reached its 140th week on their Top Latin Albums chart.
Ones was certified
platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in February 2003, signifying that 100,000 units had been shipped in the United States. In November 2017 the RIAA recertified the album 18×
platinum in the Latin field, denoting 1,080,000 album-equivalent units sold in the United States. == Track listing ==