good-sounding production and decent vocal performances but felt that it overstayed its running time and made the girls feel like non-entities on their own record, concluding that "what separates the good from the great is personality, which is lacking on the otherwise adequate It Was All a Dream." A writer for People found the album's adult content off-putting due to the band members' ages and preferred the tracks "Mr. Telephone Man" and "How Long" for being more age-appropriate for the girl group. In their look at the Least Essential Albums of 2001, The A.V. Club awarded the record with the title of Least Essential Album By A Protégé Of An Inessential Artist, with Stephen Thompson saying "[I]f taken objectively, It Was All A Dream sounds no less essential than any of the countless teen-courting albums released in recent years. But two qualities set Dream's debut apart from the crowd: a lack of timeliness and the involvement of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs." Release and promotion It Was All a Dream was released on January 23, 2001. It spent 20 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 6. The album sold 1.5 million copies in the U.S. and was certified gold by the RIAA on February 21, 2001, then platinum on March 5, 2001. Two singles were released from the album: "He Loves U Not" and "This is Me". "He Loves U Not" was released on September 12, 2000 and was a transatlantic hit, peaking at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 15 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, number 17 on the UK Singles Chart and number 35 on the ARIA Singles Chart. "This is Me" was released on May 1, 2001 and peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also reached #5 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales and number 80 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. A separate song written by a different group of writers titled "This Is Me (Remix)" was released to radio and as a commercial CD single on July 10, 2001, however, this song was not included on the album. "In My Dreams" was originally scheduled to be the album's third official single. The song was sent to radio stations in 2001, but never received a full single release. To further promote the album, Dream toured with 'N Sync on their No Strings Attached Tour in