The Hankyoreh
The album was the only K-pop album to be featured on US music channel Fuse's "41 Best Albums of 2013" and was named the "Greatest K-pop Album of the 2010s" by "Billboard". "Rum Pum Pum Pum" was ranked at number 59 on "Billboard"'s "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time" list. In a panel of 47 music and pop culture critics organized by The Hankyoreh and Melon, it was ranked at number 96 in a list of the 100 best Korean albums, making it the only album by an idol group to make the list.